Recaps

Li Musheng left the Yu Family Martial Arts School, traveled with Cang Yinyue, and became entangled in the search for Great Li’s missing Seventh Prince. After surviving the Bloodbath Alliance and the schemes of Old Man Wuxiang’s disciples, he reached Shangyang City, where competing claimants and authorities awaited him.

• Li Musheng defeated the Scum River Seven Bandits’ attack on the Yu Family, exposed Bandit Chief Zha as the disguised Yu Xian, and gave Zhang Dazhuang the Indestructible Vajra Art before leaving.
• Cang Yinyue told Li Musheng that he might be Great Li’s missing Seventh Prince, and he agreed to travel with her toward Shangyang City.
• Li Musheng learned that Cang Yinyue possessed a box linked to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury and repeatedly used his acupoint technique to stop her from taking it back.
• Li Musheng and Cang Yinyue crossed the Bloodbath Alliance’s territory, where they encountered a poison artist and the scholar and masked woman, who were disciples of Old Man Wuxiang impersonating the Seventh Prince’s search party.
• Li Musheng overpowered the scholar’s Formless Puppet Technique and killed him, while Cang Yinyue captured his senior sister, who later dissolved into black water and smoke to alert Old Man Wuxiang.
• Li Musheng and Cang Yinyue reached Shangyang City, where she warned him not to trust the Hidden Spy Bureau and identified him to the guards as a captured criminal.
• At an inn, Li Musheng heard patrons discuss the many Seventh Prince claimants, while Imperial Secret Police members intervened in a dispute involving Zhang He and asked him to testify.
• Cang Yinyue told Li Musheng he would stay at Aurora Pavilion with the other claimants until their selection in six days, but constables surrounded the inn and confronted her.

Li Musheng entered Aurora Pavilion’s succession contest, uncovered a Great Qi plot, and gained the dangerous Hidden Kill Order while Cang Yinyue pursued information about the treasury key. As Li Musheng’s identity neared verification, enemies plotted against him, and the stretch ended with his carriage surrounded in a storm.

• Cang Yinyue sealed Guan Shanxue’s true qi after Ji Feiyun intervened, then told Li Musheng about her family’s ties and her hatred of the First Madam.
• Li Musheng entered Aurora Pavilion, where Northern Qi Meditation Qi afflicted several candidates and a black-armored Great Qi remnant attacked the hall before a gray-robed elder drove him away.
• Li Musheng captured the wounded remnant and entrusted him to Cang Yinyue, then seized the Hidden Kill Order from three villains and learned that a treasury key might be connected to the Second Prince.
• Cang Yinyue reported the captured remnant and criminals to the Imperial Secret Police, rejected her engagement to Fu Yu, and learned that Li Musheng had helped her.
• Li Yuanling revealed that Consort Jing had known Li Zhi was not her son and had wanted to see Li Musheng, while Li Musheng arranged for the Queen to verify his identity.
• Li Zhi revealed his Martial Grandmaster cultivation to Lu Ying and gained the Shadow Guards’ support, while three candidates attacked Li Musheng and one revealed the Demonic Heart Seed.
• Sun Changyu told Li Musheng that the Queen had approved an identity verification, while Cang Yinyue was forced back to Marquis Cangyuan Mansion and Li Musheng’s escort took a disguised route.
• Zhang He asked Song Shanyue to kill the real Seventh Prince, and Li Musheng’s carriage was surrounded by an elderly man, the West Wind Duo, and two masked figures.

Li Musheng was recognized as the Eighth Prince and became entangled in the court’s campaign against Great Li’s martial factions. After exposing and destroying the crimes at Marquis Cangyuan Mansion and punishing Imperial Concubine Ji, he turned toward Falling God Peak while continuing to seek proof of a realm beyond Heavenly Human.

• The coachman unleashed the Fault Blade Slash against the attackers, and Li Musheng later claimed responsibility for the remaining killings as Sun Changyu escorted him to the Heavenly Brocade Guard Headquarters.
• Fu Qiwen verified Li Musheng’s identity as the Seventh Prince, and Emperor Yuanwu recognized him as the Eighth Prince while giving Fu Qiwen authority to test him with troublesome duties.
• Fu Qiwen asked Li Musheng to destroy Falling God Peak, and Li Musheng agreed on the condition that the Heavenly Brocade Guard become his afterward and the emperor grant another demand.
• Li Musheng followed a trail to Marquis Cangyuan Mansion, where Cang Yinyue confronted her father’s corpse-pill scheme, and Li Musheng intervened as Marquis Cangyuan and Zhu Fenglan’s household descended into violence.
• Li Musheng incapacitated the mansion’s perpetrators and left Cang Yinyue to deal with them, then went to the palace and punished Imperial Concubine Ji and the people in Yixin Palace.
• The Imperial Secret Police investigated the bones at Marquis Cangyuan Mansion and the deaths at Yixin Palace, while Li Musheng removed Cang Yinyue’s poisonous tattoo and she agreed to work for him.
• Li Musheng learned that his three teachers rejected the existence of a realm beyond Heavenly Human, then resolved to investigate the question himself.
• Fu Qiwen prepared to attack Falling God Peak, and Li Musheng said he would meet him there in three days as Guan Tianqian questioned Guan Shanxue about the mansion killings.

Li Musheng and Li Yuanling entered Floating Boat City’s trials, won first place, and uncovered its hidden Qilin Blood. After Li Musheng killed the city’s leaders and took the blood, Han Meiyan revealed that the Fourth Prince secretly backed Floating Boat City.

• Guan Tianqian found Imperial Concubine Ji dead in Yixin Palace, while Fu Yu learned that Cang Yinyue had escaped confinement and remained committed to marrying her.
• Li Que recruited Old Man Wuxiang, who asked him to help find the people who had killed his disciple, while Li Yuanling led Li Musheng into Floating Boat City’s underground trials.
• Li Musheng and Li Yuanling kept their candle lit through the first trial, then Li Yuanling collected jade plaques as Li Musheng secretly drew them from other boats.
• Li Musheng and Li Yuanling’s boat won the second trial with 190 markings, and Han Meiyan identified Li Musheng as the Eighth Prince and tried to draw him into an alliance.
• Li Musheng and Li Yuanling reached the maze trial’s end, where a brocade-robed official denied that Floating Boat City held a divine relic, but Li Musheng suspected the city was hiding Qilin Blood.
• Floating Boat City’s fighters attacked the contestants, and Li Musheng stopped their weapons and defeated Sheng Shi'an and Tu Yao before seeking the city lord.
• Li Musheng found Han Meiyan, Zhang He, and Fairy Lingbo attacking the badly burned Su Changqing, then killed Fairy Lingbo and extracted the Qilin Blood from Su Changqing.
• Li Musheng absorbed the Qilin Blood and killed Su Changqing, then Han Meiyan revealed that the Six Desires Demon Sect had learned of the blood through the Qilin Sacred Sect and that the Fourth Prince backed Floating Boat City.