Recaps

Lin Yu uncovered the truth about Lin Zhao, his erased memories, and the Fragment of Fate, then began investigating a mole while building ties with Jiang'an Hall. He entered the Prison Mountain Realm with Li Nian and Fei Dao, where Li Nian’s strength turned back a mountain demon attack and she revealed a powerful new Item.

• Lin Yu learned from Grandpa Radish why he had founded the Player Mutual Aid Society and why he had chosen not to keep living after his wife was gone.
• Nian trapped Lin Yu in a dream, but Lin Yu and his allies subdued him, and Shen Bingmiao revealed that Lin Zhao had died five years earlier with her in the Final Instance.
• Shen Bingmiao explained Lin Yu’s failed resurrection plan and his second plan, while Lin Yu recovered a sealed memory and claimed the Fragment of Fate: Part Four.
• Lin Yu reported to Li Hua, met Tycoon, and asked him to gather alchemical materials while building connections with Jiang'an Hall.
• Lin Yu recruited Good Night to investigate the suspected mole in Order and proposed a coordinated campaign against illegal organizations and players.
• Lin Yu entered the Prison Mountain Realm with Li Nian and Fei Dao, joined Yue Zhenqiao’s convoy, and learned that their Confrontation Instance likely pitted them against rival Players among the bandits.
• Mountain demons ambushed the convoy, and Li Nian killed more than thirty attackers while Lin Yu learned how her technique could be countered.
• Li Nian showed Lin Yu the [Limit Breaking Jade], which strengthened an ability or Item by reducing or canceling its restrictions.

Lin Yu uncovered the demon-attracting cargo and the memory-erasing disappearances at Chen Family Fortress while investigating with the caravan and other Players. The search led him beneath the fortress, where he found the battered Chen Yuanye, who began explaining his own investigation.

• Lin Yu helped defeat and tame the Mountain Demon Leader, then learned it had been drawn to the chained human body hidden in the convoy’s carriage.
• Yue Zhenqiao led the caravan to Chen Family Fortress, where Lin Yu discovered that its villagers were Empty Shells and that escorts were vanishing from everyone’s memories.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian met Little Fire Dragon, Squirtle, and Deadshot, and the groups compared their routes and the dangers they had encountered.
• After more escorts disappeared without the guards remembering them, Lin Yu joined Yue Zhenqiao and Wu San to investigate a signal from Liu Chengyang.
• Lin Yu found clues that three people had been at the cart cave before two vanished, then confronted Chen Yongde and entered a stone house to provoke the hidden mastermind.
• Lin Yu found a concealed entrance beneath the stone bed and descended alone through a boiling pool into the cavern.
• Lin Yu met the battered Chen Yuanye, who said he was a martial artist from Ming Zhen Martial Arts School and Chen Family Fortress and had investigated the disappearances.

Lin Yu uncovered the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord’s hold over Willow Town and learned how Xie Chong’s remains could help it spread. After Xuan Yunzi revealed the truth about the demon and Xie Chong, a disguised Chen Yuanye appeared to claim the remains, leaving Lin Yu negotiating with him.

• Lin Yu escaped the spider demon’s attack with Li Nian and Fei Dao, then joined Snowy Owl, Seagull, and Gao Shan to compare their Instance objectives.
• Lin Yu explained that Willow Town lay beneath Double Saw Mountain and that his group’s cargo was Xie Chong’s remains, while Snowy Owl’s team had to prevent the town from emerging.
• The groups followed Gao Shan to a bandit stronghold, where Xuan Yunzi revealed that the nearby spider demon was the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord.
• Xuan Yunzi explained that the demon had fused itself with Willow Town’s past and could be killed only if the town’s very concept disappeared.
• Xuan Yunzi revealed that the demon had manipulated Xie Chong and that an unknown martial artist had knocked him unconscious before Xie Chong died, while Lin Yu realized the remains could help the demon spread its Karma Threads.
• Xuan Yunzi gave Lin Yu Divine Speed Talismans and the sealed left leg of Xie Chong, which joined the other remains and released an aura that could attract the demon.
• A disguised Chen Yuanye admitted that the real Chen Yuanye had disappeared a year earlier and that he had fabricated memories to deceive Lin Yu.
• Chen Yuanye summoned martial-artist Shadows to seize Xie Chong’s remains, but Lin Yu offered to hand them over if Chen Yuanye fulfilled the Players’ objective and asked what he intended to do with them.

Lin Yu and the others entered the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord’s Karma Threads to confront Zhu Qiansi in Willow Town’s past. Lin Yu found Yunzhen, the Taiqing Sect’s first-generation chief disciple, and revealed that their apparent past was an illusion created by the demon.

• Chen Yuanye revealed that the Taiqing Patriarch had sunk Willow Town and sacrificed a million people to seal the demon, while Xuan Yunzi admitted the account was true and explained Zhu Qiansi’s connection to Xie Chong.
• Lin Yu shot Chen Yuanye and threatened to burn Xie Chong’s remains as the demon’s puppets attacked, then helped Xuan Yunzi and the others fight them while Li Nian stole the spider silk controlling the puppets.
• Lin Yu defeated the puppet controller as Xuan Yunzi prepared the Earth-Covering Mountain-Destroying Sealing Array, which carried the group into an underground space where they faced the mountain-sized demon.
• Xuan Yunzi explained that the group could attack the demon through its Karma Threads, then used Shifting Stars to link the Players and Xie Chong’s remains to his own fate before they entered the demon’s network.
• Lin Yu and Li Nian found each other in an illusory Willow Town, then located Seagull, Gao Shan, and Snowy Owl while searching for Zhu Qiansi.
• Lin Yu recognized a blue-robed Daoist from the Fear Lens and approached him, learning that he was Yunzhen, a Taiqing Daoist investigating Zhu Qiansi at Apricot Grove Medical Hall.
• Lin Yu persuaded Yunzhen to summon reinforcements rather than attack Zhu Qiansi immediately, but a physician’s mistake revealed that Lin Yu had taken the identity of Zhu Qiansi’s younger sister.
• Lin Yu told Yunzhen that the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord had created their illusion with Karma Threads, and Yunzhen realized he was the first-generation chief disciple who had died before his master spared the infant linked to the demon’s return.