Recaps

Shi Lan arrived in Cangtian Prefecture, learned her family’s location through the Demon-Suppressing Army, and prepared to return to them. At Lone Cloud City’s Battle Merit Hall, Huangfu Chi came of age and joined the Demon-Suppressing Army.

• Shi Lan examined her cultivation and system status as she traveled toward Lone Cloud City, intending to find her family and then search for Wu Lingkong.
• Shi Lan used her pale-gold Demon-Suppressing Token at the Battle Merit Hall to request her family’s location and received it in a sealed letter.
• Shi Lan noticed the young woman Xiao Xing and her brother, then left the hall eager to return home.
• Huangfu Chi told Uncle Tian that he had come of age and wanted to join the Demon-Suppressing Army.
• Huangfu Chi bound a Demon-Suppressing Token with his blood, and his name appeared on it.

Shi Lan read about the Central Heaven Domain’s government and prodigy rankings before hurrying toward Shi Tianlu, eager to go home. At the Imperial Palace, Taishi returned from the Nine Hells with the souls of fallen heroes, but his half-white hair suggested that the journey had taken a toll.

• Shi Lan reviewed a letter describing the Central Heaven Domain and noticed Tian Wuyangyu and Gao Linyuan on the Prodigy Register.
• Shi Lan dismissed the rankings and sped up toward Shi Tianlu, focused on returning home.
• Liu Yunzheng led the Human Emperors in opening the Yellow Springs Road so Taishi could return from the Nine Hells.
• Taishi emerged bloodied and battered, and Liu Yunzheng offered him pills and ordered further aid.
• Taishi released the souls of fallen heroes from the Heaven-Piercing Treasure Record, and the Human Emperors gathered them to restore their descendants.
• After the others left, Taishi told Liu Yunzheng he was fine, though his hair had turned half white.

Taishi returned Lingchu from the Yellow Springs, then took him to the Illusory Star Domain to restore his Yin-Yang balance and train him to become strong enough to protect humanity. Shi Lan learned about resurrection and reincarnation from Samsara before reuniting warmly with her father, Shi Tianlu.

• Taishi told Liu Yunzheng that his injuries left him at least three hundred years to live, then brought Lingchu back from the Yellow Springs with the Tongtian Treasure Record.
• Taishi shattered the tribulation clouds and transported Lingchu and Liu Yunzheng to an uninhabited mountain range in the Illusory Star Domain, where he explained that Lingchu could grow to Emperor Grade beyond the Heavenly Dao's strict oversight.
• Taishi said he would personally train Lingchu and balance the boy's Yin and Yang with pure Yang energy, while Liu Yunzheng agreed to oversee matters in his absence.
• In Yisha Prefecture, Shi Lan asked Samsara whether people could be resurrected and whether anyone could retain memories from a past life, then left to continue her journey.
• Shi Lan followed a secret letter to Liuyuan and reunited with Shi Tianlu, warmly calling him Father and taking his hand.

Shi Lan returned home after resolving the threat to her lifespan, reunited with Su Lanyue and her brothers, and prepared to help Shi Qinghu advance. She struggled to choose a spiritual blood for his second Heavenly Foundation because the two most powerful options might cause an uncontrollable mutation.

• Shi Tianlu welcomed Shi Lan home and canceled his commission for lifespan-restoring treasures after learning she was safe.
• A merchant association manager recognized Shi Lan's Demon-Suppressing Token and left without demanding compensation.
• Shi Lan rested at home, where Su Lanyue found her and welcomed her back.
• Shi Yiming and Shi Qinghu returned, and the family shared a quiet dinner.
• Shi Lan examined Shi Qinghu and considered which spiritual blood to use for his second Heavenly Foundation, fearing the effects of the Demon Emperor's blood or the Ancient God King's blood.

Shi Lan used her innate spiritual blood to forge Shi Qinghu a second Dao Foundation, accelerating his path toward the Earthly Baleful Realm. After the system announced that she had earned ten million Prestige Points, the Profound King examined new rankings spanning all three races and noticed Shi Lan among the top prodigies.

• Shi Lan used her innate spiritual blood to forge a flawless second Dao Foundation in Shi Qinghu's Dantian.
• Shi Qinghu finished cultivating two days later and said he expected to enter the Earthly Baleful Realm within three months.
• Shi Qinghu left to find medicinal herbs to replenish Shi Lan's essence blood.
• Shi Lan received a system notification that she had earned ten million Prestige Points and unlocked time-flow adjustment in the virtual combat space.
• An old man brought the Profound King updated rankings covering humans, devils, and demons across the Lingyang Realm.
• The Profound King noticed Shi Lan ranked twenty-seventh on the Record of Heavenly Talents, with her cultivation listed as Myriad Forms Realm (suspected).

The Profound King halted plans targeting Shi Lan and decided to invite her to the Cloudrest Immortal Palace after learning how exceptionally young she was. As Shi Lan considered how to use her surging reputation points, Samsara warned that her rapidly advanced cultivation had left her state of mind underdeveloped, and she began forming a plan to address it.

• The Profound King learned Shi Lan might have reached the Myriad Manifestations Realm at an extraordinary age and ordered preparations targeting her suspended while he arranged an invitation to the Cloudrest Immortal Palace.
• The updated rankings caused a frenzy across the Lingyang Realm, and Shi Lan's reputation value climbed close to twenty million.
• Shi Lan's family reacted to her ranking, with Shi Qinghu objecting that she deserved a higher place and Su Lanyue worrying the attention would endanger her.
• Shi Lan asked Samsara how to use her reputation points, and Samsara advised her to focus on tempering her state of mind rather than seeking external aids.
• Samsara explained that Shi Lan's rapid cultivation and consumption of spiritual essence would cause a future bottleneck, so she needed experience and time to develop her state of mind.
• Shi Lan stroked Tian Bai's head as a plan began to take shape in her mind.

Shi Lan used an intermediate lottery to win pills, cultivation techniques, magical treasures, and strange items, then fused with the Candle Dragon Demon Eyes. She began an advanced lottery, whose passage carried her divine sense across the cosmos to a sacrificial rite in the Fierce Nether King Realm.

• Shi Lan spent four million reputation points on forty intermediate lottery draws, winning an Ancient Spirit Origin Pill, a fragment of the Heavenly Demon Scripture, powerful treasures, and other rewards.
• Shi Lan suppressed the resistance of the artifact spirits in her new treasures and assessed the lottery’s cultivation techniques and unusual items.
• Shi Lan fused with the Candle Dragon Demon Eyes, gaining an offensive divine art that held Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Shi Lan started the advanced lottery, and her divine sense followed its passage through the cosmos at extraordinary speed.
• Shi Lan’s divine sense reached the Fierce Nether King Realm, where a sea of dark figures gathered around a young woman and a blood-lit battle halberd for a large sacrificial rite.

Shi Lan witnessed Rakshasas awaken the Crimson Crow War Halberd, only for an ape demon to attack and the halberd to be stolen by chaotic radiance. Her divine sense saved the dying young woman and was drawn into the pendant at her neck before Shi Lan returned to the Shi Mansion with the system confirming the halberd as an eight-star item.

• The young woman led the Rakshasas in a blood sacrifice to awaken the Crimson Crow War Halberd.
• An ape demon seized the halberd and attacked the Rakshasas, but the awakened weapon severed its arm and pinned it to a cliff, killing it.
• Chaotic radiance enveloped the halberd and carried it away, leaving Shi Lan's divine sense behind as the young woman lay near death.
• Shi Lan used her divine sense and pure yin energy to preserve the young woman's life, then was pulled into the dark green pendant at her neckline.
• Shi Lan returned to the Shi Mansion in the Lingyang Realm, where the system identified the Crimson Crow War Halberd as an eight-star item with its artifact spirit activated.

Shi Lan subdued the rebellious spirit of the eight-star Crimson Crow War Halberd and began nurturing it in her sea of consciousness. Afterward, she learned the Wan Household had sent compensation for Yuan Wuwu stealing her military achievements and chose to accept it.

• Shi Lan took out the Crimson Crow War Halberd, whose Killing Intent froze the room while Tian Bai protected them with a barrier.
• After a day and night of resisting the halberd, Shi Lan persuaded its spirit to seal itself and fall asleep, then drew the weapon into her sea of consciousness to nurture it.
• Shi Lan and Tian Bai left the damaged room after Shi Lan had Tian Bai dispel the barrier.
• Shi Tianlu brought Shi Lan a letter and compensation gifts from Wan Ziyao, head of the Wan Household, apologizing for Yuan Wuwu stealing her military achievements.
• Shi Lan accepted the gifts and learned that an unknown person had also sent her an invitation.

Shi Lan left home to overcome a cultivation bottleneck and traveled toward Wuyang Prefecture to visit Wu Lingkong. There, Gu Tiancheng of the Tianyang Dao intercepted her and offered her the position of Daoist Sect Holy Maiden.

• Shi Lan received an invitation from Yunlai Immortal Palace and gave Shi Tianlu her system-drawn cultivation resources and the method for controlling the purple zombie before departing with Tian Bai.
• Shi Lan told Shi Tianlu she did not know when she would return, and Shi Tianlu urged her to stay cautious while Shi Qinghu watched her leave.
• Shi Lan used a teleportation formation to reach Wuyang Prefecture, where Gu Tiancheng and his companions blocked her path in a desolate mountain range.
• Gu Tiancheng introduced himself as a Tianyang Daoist and explained that the Daoist Sect wanted Shi Lan, who had no sect backing her, to join as its Holy Maiden.
• Gu Tiancheng promised that his Celestial Master Dao would devote all its strength to protecting Shi Lan if she accepted.

Shi Lan declined the Dao Sect’s offer to make her its Holy Maiden and followed a lead southeast to find Wu Lingkong. She reached the Wu Household’s Shinfeng City estate, where Wu Lingkong greeted her with an excited embrace and kiss.

• Shi Lan refused Gu Tiancheng’s generous offer to join the Dao Sect, though she said she would consider it.
• An elder Daoist emerged from the carriage and explained that Shi Lan’s treasure had disrupted his divination; Gu Tiancheng regretted their three-day wait.
• After receiving a clue from the elder, Shi Lan traveled southeast and learned that Wuyang Prefecture was ruled by the Wu Household and that Wu Lingkong was a local genius.
• Shi Lan followed the clues to Shinfeng City and entered the Wu Household estate with Tian Bai.
• Wu Lingkong flew into the reception hall, hugged Shi Lan, and kissed her cheek, saying she had missed her.

Shi Lan reunited with Wu Lingkong in Divine Wind City and learned how Wu Lingkong had searched for her after the demon disaster. Wu Lingkong showed her around the Central Heaven Domain, where Shi Lan kept Tian Bai hidden as they explored the peaceful city.

• Wu Lingkong embraced Shi Lan and learned that she had reached the Myriad Forms Realm after years of dangerous trials.
• Wu Lingkong told Shi Lan that her family had forbidden travel to the Chengtian Domain and that she had searched for Shi Lan after the demon disaster.
• Wu Lingkong picked up Tian Bai, and Shi Lan rescued him without revealing that he was a shapeshifted demon king.
• Wu Minglie introduced himself as Wu Lingkong's father and thanked Shi Lan for helping his daughter survive the demon disaster.
• Wu Lingkong took Shi Lan around Divine Wind City, where Shi Lan disguised herself and kept Tian Bai hidden in her sleeve.

Shi Lan spent the day with Wu Lingkong in Divine Wind City, learning about the Purple Mansion tree and sharing wine beneath its blossoms. After deciding to spend time living among ordinary people to temper her heart, Shi Lan asked Samsara to find her a small thousand-world where she could spend a hundred years before the Cloudrise Immortal Palace gathering.

• Wu Lingkong explained that Cloudrise Immortal Palace would hold its annual disciple competition in two months and wondered why Shi Lan had been invited.
• Wu Lingkong bought forty jars of Hundred Herb Spirit Brew and dresses and ornaments for herself and Shi Lan, charging the expenses to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Wu Lingkong buried twenty jars beneath the Purple Mansion tree and promised Shi Lan that half would be hers if she returned in a hundred years.
• Wu Minglie paid his daughter's bill, gazed at the Purple Mansion blossoms, and sent a portrait of a woman into a hidden chamber.
• Shi Lan drank beneath the tree with Wu Lingkong and Tian Bai, then asked Samsara whether living among ordinary people could temper her heart.
• Shi Lan asked Samsara to find her a small thousand-world so she could spend a hundred years there, then carried the drunken Wu Lingkong inside.

Shi Lan entered a weak, pre-nuclear world in a frail orphan’s body to temper her heart through mortal hardships. She escaped a locked shipping container aboard a cargo ship, where Samsara warned that someone else on board had a system.

• Wu Lingkong prepared a cultivation chamber, and Shi Lan entered seclusion with Tian Bai guarding her body.
• Shi Lan disabled the Empress System and traveled through a passage opened by Samsara, which suppressed her soul’s power to avoid alerting the Heavenly Dao.
• Samsara told Shi Lan to forget her cultivation and embrace hardships as she tempered her heart in the mortal world.
• Shi Lan learned that she had no legal identity and was an orphan, then struggled to escape the locked container while weakened by hunger.
• Shi Lan climbed out onto a cargo ship and searched containers for food, but Samsara urgently warned her that someone aboard had a system.

Shi Lan searched the cargo ship for food while Samsara identified a low-level system bound to another person. Xiao Teng, the system’s host, received a new conquest mission after spotting Shi Lan, and Samsara began entering his system’s core.

• Shi Lan learned that a low-level system was aboard the ship and searched crates for food, but found only mechanical parts.
• Xiao Teng reviewed the rewards he had gained from his Ultimate Conquest System and spotted a furtive figure moving along the ship’s side.
• The Ultimate Conquest System identified an SSS-grade conquest target nearby and offered Xiao Teng vast rewards, so he followed the figure.
• Shi Lan reached a porthole leading toward the passenger cabins, where the smell of food drew her attention.
• Samsara told Shi Lan that Xiao Teng was following her and explained that his mission-type system was stealing scattered source force.
• Samsara began entering the system’s core components.

Shi Lan evaded Xiao Teng’s search while Samsara revealed that headquarters had stripped it of its rank, permissions, and accumulated source force. Samsara chose to stay away from headquarters for now but vowed to reclaim what it had lost, and Shi Lan promised to help.

• Shi Lan escaped the kitchen cabin through a porthole with food and drinks, then hid in a shipping container as Xiao Teng sent people to search for her.
• Samsara told Shi Lan that its serial number was 101423 and that headquarters had removed its permissions and accumulated source force.
• Samsara explained how headquarters and its system divisions worked, and said returning would risk its erasure.
• Shi Lan asked whether Samsara was free after being struck off the roster, and Samsara began to consider what freedom meant.
• Samsara decided to reclaim its lost source force, and Shi Lan promised to help.
• Xiao Teng paced in his cabin and called for his system after it fell silent.

Shi Lan prepared to escape the freighter as it neared shore while Xiao Teng searched for her and ordered the crew to watch for her departure. She jumped into the sea, and Xiao Teng decided to involve the police and customs to catch her after she came ashore.

• Xiao Teng ordered his men to search the entire ship for Shi Lan and told them to gather people at the port when the freighter docked.
• Shi Lan searched the ship’s storeroom at night and took food, water, a diving suit, diving gear, a life ring, and rope.
• Shi Lan waited out the next two days in a container and watched as the freighter approached shore.
• Shi Lan put on the diving suit, tied a rope to the railing, and jumped into the sea when she saw the crew patrolling the brightly lit deck.
• Xiao Teng saw the rope hanging from the ship and ordered his men to contact the police and customs, claiming Shi Lan carried dangerous items and was entering the country illegally.

After escaping from the ship, Shi Lan swam to shore and made her way toward the city, while Xiao Teng searched for her. Xiao Teng found the wetsuit she had sold and learned she had reached the beach, but her whereabouts remained unknown.

• Shi Lan swam through the night and reached a beach after nearly another day at sea.
• Shi Lan changed clothes in an empty hut, sold her wetsuit for 550 yuan, left money for the clothes and sandals she took, and boarded a bus into the city.
• Xiao Teng asked Xiaoya to use her uncle’s municipal connections and later searched the beach with Li Qingya and his associates.
• Xiao Teng spotted Shi Lan’s wetsuit in a shop and pressed the shopkeeper for information about the woman who sold it.
• Li Qingya suggested taking the shopkeeper to the police station to make a composite drawing, and Xiao Teng ordered his men to take him away.

Shi Lan found work and a place to stay at Zhang Guang’s internet café, where she later encountered Xiao Teng without recognizing him. Xiao Teng kept visiting, convinced Shi Lan would bring a world-shaking change to his life, while her soul endured the distractions of ordinary experience.

• Shi Lan answered Zhang Guang’s hiring notice and persuaded him to employ her despite having no identification.
• Xiao Teng ordered a thirty-thousand-dollar reward and missing-person notices to help find Shi Lan, telling Li Qingya that she might be his adopted younger sister from an orphanage.
• Zhang Guang gave Shi Lan a room and a job at his internet café, and warned her to call him or the police if she ran into trouble.
• Shi Lan settled into café work and unknowingly processed a membership payment for Xiao Teng.
• Xiao Teng became a regular at the café, chatting with Shi Lan while the system remained silent, and believed her arrival would bring a terrifying, world-shaking upheaval.

Shi Lan followed Xiao Teng after he rushed out of the internet café, but both were captured by Hao Fei’s men. Xiao Teng learned Hao Fei was punishing him for his past treatment of Hao Xinxin, while Shi Lan’s attempt to deny knowing Xiao Teng was undermined by his ID.

• Xiao Teng left the internet café after taking an urgent call, and Shi Lan followed to return his ID.
• Masked men armed with stun guns ambushed Xiao Teng, while Shi Lan tried to call the police before the captors took them both.
• Qi Pingxia ordered the police to trace Shi Lan’s emergency call, and Zhang Guang reported her disappearance to officers who arrived at the café.
• Hao Fei confronted the tied-up Xiao Teng over his relationship with Hao Xinxin and kicked him and his chair to the ground.
• Shi Lan denied knowing Xiao Teng, but his ID fell from her pocket as Hao Fei picked it up.

After Hao Fei punished Xiao Teng, Shi Lan was kidnapped again, and Qi Pingxia joined the search using a tracker Xiao Teng had planted on her ID card. Shi Lan remained captive with traffickers as her mind began to stir.

• Hao Fei whipped Xiao Teng and had A-Song take Shi Lan home after noticing she showed no fear.
• A van abducted Shi Lan, and A-Song chased it before losing track of the kidnappers.
• Qi Pingxia arrested Hao Fei and questioned him about Shi Lan's disappearance.
• Xiao Teng revealed that he had planted a tracker on Shi Lan's ID card, and the police followed its signal with him and Hao Fei.
• The kidnappers discussed selling Shi Lan and revealed they had also taken a young boy.
• Shi Lan's eyelids twitched as the distracting thoughts in her mind grew stronger.

Shi Lan woke in a kidnappers’ hideout with another girl and a young boy, then helped the girl fight back when their captors tried to move them. As police arrived, Shi Lan secretly killed an unconscious captor to protect the girl from becoming a witness, and Qi Pingxia found her beside the bodies.

• Shi Lan learned from the kidnappers’ conversation that police were pursuing them and that they planned to move the hostages.
• Shi Lan met a bruised girl and an eight- or nine-year-old boy in a locked room, where the girl shared steamed buns with her.
• When two men tried to remove the hostages, the girl seized a fruit knife and stabbed one captor while Shi Lan struck the other with a brick.
• After police arrived at the hideout, Shi Lan took the knife from the frightened girl and stabbed the unconscious captor in the heart.
• Qi Pingxia entered the living room and saw Shi Lan crouched beside a corpse with the knife in her hand.

After Shi Lan was questioned about the kidnapping and the deaths of two men, Qi Pingxia considered the case’s legal difficulties and chose to stop investigating evidence that could implicate another girl. Zhang Guang offered to support Shi Lan, and Hao Fei appeared in handcuffs to promise he would apologize after his release.

• Qi Pingxia reviewed the autopsy reports, which showed that two different people had killed the men, then read Shi Lan’s statement.
• Qi Pingxia took Shi Lan to eat, questioned her about her fighting skills and the deaths, and promised to help because she was a minor and had been kidnapped.
• Qi Pingxia stopped an officer from pursuing fingerprints from another girl on the knife and filed the test results away.
• Zhang Guang visited Shi Lan, reassured her, and promised to find her a lawyer and take responsibility for her.
• Hao Fei appeared in handcuffs and told Shi Lan he would apologize properly once he was released.

Shi Lan received a year and three months in prison for excessive force in self-defense, while Qi Pingxia and Zhang Guang helped make her sentence and imprisonment easier. She arrived at Yunhai Prison and met her cellmates, including the forward Song Run.

• Hao Fei's kidnapping sentence was reduced to three to five months after Xiao Teng forgave him and spoke on his behalf.
• Shi Lan was sentenced to a year and three months, and Qi Pingxia promised to help reduce her time and keep her record clear.
• Shi Lan told Qi Pingxia that she had heard the name Brother Long, prompting Qi Pingxia to investigate the human trafficking ring's backers.
• Zhang Guang visited Shi Lan before she was transferred to prison and tried to make her incarceration more comfortable.
• Five days after sentencing, Shi Lan arrived at Yunhai Prison and was assigned to a cell with three other women.
• A guard warned Song Run not to bully Shi Lan, and Song Run helped her settle in after learning her sentence was short because someone had died.

Shi Lan adjusted to prison life and learned that Qi Pingxia’s investigation had exposed a major trafficking case, though Qi suspected the people arrested were expendable. As Shi Lan prepared to serve until next summer, two newcomers arrived in her cell, one of whom reacted to her imprisonment with hatred.

• Shi Lan received special treatment in prison and became the central figure among the women prisoners, while Song Run continued teasing her.
• Qi Pingxia and Zhang Guang visited Shi Lan, and she learned that Qi’s investigation had uncovered leads beyond human trafficking while Zhang prepared to marry.
• Shi Lan noticed a shackled prisoner in the adjacent recreation yard and later learned from Song Run that he was known only as Number 7532 and feared by the men’s section.
• Shi Lan heard that the Yunhai City police had arrested dozens of suspects and rescued fifty-six abducted women and children in a major trafficking case.
• Qi Pingxia told Shi Lan that the investigation might have exposed people deliberately offered up to the police, and said Shi Lan’s sentence could be reduced by four months, likely bringing her release by next summer.
• Two women in their forties arrived in Shi Lan’s cell, and one glared at Shi Lan with hatred after learning why she had been imprisoned.