Recaps

Ming Shuiyun turned the academy’s pressure into a fundraising drive for Shuiyun Palace and Peerless Kill. Meanwhile, Le Yu infiltrated a conspiracy against Qin Leyin and Cha Huan, then joined Cha Huan in preparing a counterattack at the Platinum Tower.

• Ming Shuiyun announced that she would borrow money to recruit loyal supporters, and Qin Yueshi became her first captain as students backed Shuiyun Palace and its Peerless Kill project.
• Ning Xinyuan decided to stop Ming Shuiyun’s rise, while Qian Yuya discovered an action log about Qin Leyin and Nai Qingni refused to let students participate in White Night operations.
• Le Yu went to Golden Touch Pavilion disguised as Yin Yinyin and infiltrated a gathering where Yan Shang laid out a plan to kill Cha Huan, search the Platinum Tower, and seize Qin Leyin’s right hand.
• Le Yu proposed making Qin Leyin Acting Principal to lure him to the Platinum Tower, then escaped two Grass Cutter Emissaries with the help of a flare and encountered Xianchan Chenchen.
• Le Yu recruited Linu to help turn Yantong against the groups targeting Cha Huan, then visited Cha Huan at the Platinum Tower and heard how he had become principal.
• Le Yu told Cha Huan about the assassination plot and offered to serve as principal, while Cha Huan agreed to let him use the tower and revealed his past promise to reunite with the Empress Dowager.
• Cha Huan prepared to confront the attackers with a divine weapon, gave Le Yu a martial arts manual, and outlined a counter-killing plan.

Le Yu prepared the Platinum Tower for an assassination assault as Cha Huan publicly confronted the conspirators and the attackers fought through the academy. The siege reached the tower’s upper floors, where Yan Yi defended the academy against Lei Huan while the Grand Steward’s group pressed on toward Qin Leyin.

• Ming Shuiyun learned Qin Leyin was in danger and told him she wanted to protect him, but Le Yu persuaded her to stay out of his assassination plan.
• Yan Yi attacked Le Yu after learning he had been intimate with Ning Xinyuan, then apologized and joined him in revising the Platinum Tower’s defenses.
• Cha Huan killed Mu Poluo, warned Le Yu not to trust Yan Command, and publicly walked through the sky to draw the conspirators into the open.
• Le Yu infiltrated the attackers’ gathering and sabotaged their advance through the academy with darkness, bees, gunfire, and staged apparitions.
• The Grand Steward led the surviving attackers toward the Platinum Tower as the Sword Bearer revealed his identity and challenged them to complete their mission.
• Yan Yi explained the tower’s traps while Cha Huan fought a black-clad Martial Pillar warrior, rejected his appeal to join him, and killed him after he fired the hidden cannon.
• Yan Yi and Ning Xinyuan spoke about their relationship and agreed to invite the principal to dinner if they survived.
• The Grand Steward’s group reached the fifth floor, where Yan Yi attacked them and Lei Huan confronted her, demanding that she kneel.

Le Yu and his allies survived the assault on the Platinum Tower, where the Grand Steward revealed himself as Qin Xiao and died after helping summon Holy Sword Huiyao. Back at the Imperial Academy, they investigated Spirit Condensing Pills linked to Sea Wave Powder and learned that the second round of the game targeted the Blood Essence Stone.

• Yan Yi endured Lei Huan’s lightning, awakened Lei Fox, and fought him and the Iron-Masked Man until a white-haired Le Yu arrived and killed both attackers.
• Le Yu followed the Grand Steward and Iron-Masked Man to the seventh floor, where he revealed himself as Qin Leyin and fought the Iron-Masked Man before defeating him.
• Le Yu fought the Grand Steward as the man summoned a half-woven Holy Sword Huiyao, then recognized him as his former teacher Qin Xiao, who died after urging him to beware the Necronomicon.
• Cha Huan confronted Crane Tear, gave Xie Chenyuan a list of targets, and ordered a purge before returning to the Imperial Academy.
• Le Yu and Yan Yi formed an alliance, while Qin Leyin learned that cheaply sold Spirit Condensing Pills were Sea Wave Powder and academy students were being offered samples.
• Cha Huan and the academy staff debated the pills’ connection to the National Salvation and Relief Society, the danger to students, and the possibility that a divine weapon was producing them.
• Cha Huan ordered the academy to inform students, patrol at night, and offer a bounty for the pill-producing divine weapon, while refusing to conceal the pills.
• Le Yu told Cha Huan that Qin Xiao had warned him about the Book of the Dead and identified the Blood Essence Stone as the likely source of the pills, then Ming Shuiyun said the second round targeted it.

Le Yu infiltrated the Immortal Palace Project and discovered that the Blood Essence Stone drained members while allowing the National Salvation and Relief Society to track their soul imprints. After Cha Huan was caught in the same trap, Le Yu warned Zhu Yan of the danger, and Zhu Yan agreed to keep watch over Cha Huan.

• Le Yu recreated a Book of the Dead Fragment and learned it could keep its holder and followers alive in an Undeath state for up to fifteen minutes, explaining how Qin Xiao had survived being cut in half.
• Li Ying joined Smile’s Immortal Palace Project and learned that the Blood Essence Stone used members’ vitality and spiritual energy to grant immortal blood and supernatural abilities.
• After Ying Sheng and Su Qian attacked Li Ying, Qin Leyin killed them in self-defense, rescued her, and was appointed Vice Principal by Cha Huan.
• Lan Yan crushed Lu Heng’s rebellion, seized Pearl Prefecture, and prepared troops and supplies for an operation against Yanjing.
• Le Yu and his allies infiltrated a gathering of the Immortal Palace Project, where Li Ying earned a promotion and Cha Huan appeared in disguise as Youth.
• Le Yu, Yan Yi, Ning Xinyuan, and Cha Huan offered energy to the Blood Essence Stone, and Le Yu discovered it took their soul imprints, and Cha Huan left badly weakened.
• Le Yu told Li Ying that her soul imprint was trapped in the Blood Essence Stone and promised that he and Cha Huan would protect her.
• Le Yu told Zhu Yan that the National Salvation and Relief Society held the Blood Essence Stone and Cha Huan’s soul imprint, and Zhu Yan agreed to stay at the Imperial Academy and watch over Cha Huan.