Recaps

Yang Huai transformed the Peerless Sword Immortal Fate into the Tai Bai High Lord Fate, drawing the attention of sects and immortals who believed he was Tai Bai Star Lord reincarnated. After three years of absorbing Tai Bai starlight, he emerged with an Innate Origin Star Lord body as Taichuzi, Yuan Xiuxiu, and Daoist Guangrong waited nearby.

• Yang Huai sublimated the Wilds Craftsman God Fate into the Eastern Azure-Spirit Emperor Lord Fate and the Peerless Sword Immortal Fate into the Tai Bai High Lord Fate.
• Yang Huai absorbed the Tai Bai Star’s origin, cultivated his Origin Star Lord Divine Body, and strengthened his purple God Descends to the Mortal World Fate.
• Dao Ningzi and the Pure Origin Sect Daoists concluded that Yang Huai was Tai Bai descended into the world, while Daoist Zhoutian and other Orthodox Path leaders worried about his influence.
• On Suspended Spirit Island, Taichuzi and Yuan Xiuxiu recognized the Tai Bai phenomenon as Yang Huai’s destiny star, and Yuan Xiuxiu hoped he might help remove Taichuzi’s Dao wound.
• After three years, Yang Huai ended his cultivation with an Innate Origin Star Lord body and came out to meet Taichuzi, Yuan Xiuxiu, and Daoist Guangrong.

Yang Huai sealed Taichuzi’s worsening Dao wound for about fifty years and learned that Dao Ningzi might pass a message to the patriarch beyond heaven. After arranging for Daoist Liyang’s reincarnation, Yang Huai entered the Primordial Treasure Mirror and discovered his new alternate self was an unborn boy destined to embody a pure yang great sun.

• Yang Huai used his origin Great Dao to seal Taichuzi’s Dao wound, preserving his vitality while he sought a way to heal it completely.
• Yuan Xiuxiu left Heavenly Gold Cave after Yang Huai comforted her, while Dao Ningzi visited and offered him collected cultivation manuscripts.
• Dao Ningzi promised to seek guidance from the patriarch through an elder who would soon ascend to the heavenly realm.
• Yang Huai gave Daoist Liyang’s lingering soul fragments to Daoist Guangrong so they could be exchanged for a Form-Fixing Immortal Elixir and sent into reincarnation.
• Yang Huai entered the Primordial Treasure Mirror and found his alternate self was an unborn boy with a solar divine mark, whom his parents said was born with the fate of a pure yang great sun.

Yang Huai reincarnated as the unborn eldest son of the Emperor Yan and Ting Yao, awakened his spirit early, and strengthened his divine foundation in the womb. The Emperor Yan brought home an injured girl named Chang'e, while Yang Huai’s Great Sun manifestation emerged as he crossed into the greater-spirit realm.

• Yang Huai learned that he was the Emperor Yan’s unborn son and resolved to inherit the Emperor Yan’s glory and contend for the Great Sun’s authority.
• Yang Huai cultivated innate pure-yang energy in Ting Yao’s womb, awakened his spirit early, and delighted Ting Yao and the Emperor Yan.
• The Emperor Yan brought an injured girl with an innate Lunar Star body to the palace, and Ting Yao named her Chang'e and planned to raise her as Yang Huai’s companion.
• Yang Huai continued refining his bloodline until he crossed the threshold of a greater spirit.
• Yang Huai’s Great Sun manifestation appeared above the palace, and the second-generation Fire God praised its divine bearing.

Yang Huai was born as Yan Ju, the Flame Emperor Shennong and Tingyao’s extraordinary eldest son and heir, amid omens that stirred the Solar Star. The heavenly realm sent a congratulatory gift, while Heng'e carried Yan Ju toward his baptism and felt an unexplained dislike for his sun-fire aura.

• After divine omens appeared during Tingyao’s pregnancy, the Flame Emperor sent her to Flame Emperor Valley to protect her and the unborn child.
• Seven years later, Yan Ju’s birth unleashed a golden radiance and a Solar Star omen that drew the attention of Di Jun and Heavenly Empress Xihe.
• Di Jun ordered Xihe to send treasures to the Emperor Yan Tribe as a congratulatory gift, hoping to sow division among the earthbound gods.
• The Flame Emperor named the infant Yan Ju as his eldest son and heir, and Yan Ju burned an old Fire God who reached toward his basket.
• Tingyao asked Heng'e to carry Yan Ju to his baptism, while the Flame Emperor and Tingyao turned to meet the heavenly envoy; Heng'e felt instinctive irritation at Yan Ju’s sun-fire aura.

Yan Ju underwent a three-month cleansing in Emperor Yan’s medicinal pool, absorbing its divine medicines and cultivating the Southern Emperor Yan True Scripture. He emerged having reached the Heavenly God realm and grown into a youth, leaving Emperor Yan and Ting Yao delighted.

• Heng'e carried the infant Yan Ju to the cleansing hall, where he manifested a youthful divine body and pinched her cheeks after she teased him.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e chased each other through the void until Ting Yao stopped them, and she joked that Heng'e could be bestowed upon Yan Ju when he grew up.
• Ting Yao placed Yan Ju in Emperor Yan’s medicinal pool, where he formed a golden-red lotus cocoon and began absorbing its powerful medicines.
• Emperor Yan and Ting Yao left Heng'e to watch over Yan Ju while they dealt with visiting mortal gods and the Celestial Court’s gifts.
• After three months, Yan Ju absorbed the pool dry, endured the Heavenly God tribulation, and emerged with a complete solar divine body and Dao Fruit.
• Yan Ju grew into a youth and paid respects to Emperor Yan and Ting Yao, who joyfully helped him rise.

Yan Ju studied divine lineages and authority under Ting Yao, learned of the Xi Huang Kingdom’s destruction, and gave Heng'e a lunar cultivation art to help restore her source. He left with her for the Great Hall of Light, while Heng'e began to see him in a kinder light.

• Yan Ju asked Ting Yao whether Emperor Yan’s many bloodlines strengthened his authority, and she explained that the Human Emperor had pursued a similar path before the Xi Huang Kingdom fell.
• Yan Ju teased Heng'e and declared that he intended to marry her, while Ting Yao warned him to preserve his Pure Yang authority.
• Ting Yao told Yan Ju that the Xi Huang Kingdom had been destroyed, most of the Fuxi Clan had perished, and the Human Emperor’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Yan Ju vowed to defeat the demons and devils, then ended his lesson and left the palace with Heng'e.
• Yan Ju gave Heng'e the Grand Lunar Form-Refining Art and claimed to have created it, and she accepted it before following him to the Great Hall of Light.

Yan Ju demonstrated his mastery of the Nine Zhurong Flames, then learned the Zhurong Clan’s Refining Fire Method and quickly reached the Heaven-Origin Fire realm. After receiving Zhurong’s personal instruction, Yan Ju left the Great Hall of Light with Heng'e, while a haughty half-grown boy watched them depart.

• Yan Ju showed Zhurong that he had mastered the Nine Zhurong Flames, and Zhurong invited him to learn the Refining Fire Method.
• As Zhurong taught the method, Yan Ju quickly cultivated Fire of Spirituality and advanced through Human-Origin Fire to Heaven-Origin Fire, surprising Zhurong.
• Yan Ju thanked Zhurong and asked him about the method’s mysteries, receiving patient personal guidance from the clan chief.
• A half-grown boy in a fiery-red brocade robe watched Yan Ju and Zhurong, then haughtily turned away and left with his attendant gods.
• Yan Ju found Heng'e outside the hall, teased her by ruffling her hair and pinching her cheek, and left with her beneath the sun.

Yan Ju broke through to the High God realm and prepared to attend the Hundred Tribes Assembly. After receiving treasures from his parents, he discovered carpentry had already spread through the Emperor Yan Tribe, then went to ask Ting Yao about it before the assembly began.

• Yan Ju broke through to the High God realm using his Great Sun Dao Fruit, and the Emperor Yan urged him to represent the tribe at the Hundred Tribes Assembly.
• Ting Yao took Yan Ju to the Flame Emperor's Treasury, where he saw rare spirit plants and divine treasures gathered by the Emperor Yan.
• Ting Yao gave Yan Ju the Suiren Lamp and an ancient red-bronze sword, which he refined that afternoon.
• Yan Ju met craftsmen building a small tower with a ruler created by Ting Yao and learned that carpentry had already spread through the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yan Ju entered Ting Yao's palace to ask her about the craftsmen, and the Hundred Tribes Assembly began several days later.

At the Assembly of the Hundred Clans, Yan Ju easily defeated the challengers, including Crown Prince Changqin, and displayed mastery of fire techniques and the First Mountain Red Copper Sword. Just as the gathering was about to end, a new challenger arrived beneath a vast rising sun and called Yan Ju out.

• Yan Ju defeated Yu Jian of the Youyu Clan with Heavenly Origin Fire, and Yu Jian conceded.
• Crown Prince Changqin challenged Yan Ju, but Yan Ju trapped him in the Pure Origin Myriad Marvel Nine Divine Sword Formation and pointed his sword at Changqin's chest.
• Zhurong declared Changqin defeated, slapped him twice, and scolded him for risking his life; Changqin then vanished in anger.
• A new challenger arrived with a vast rising sun and crow cries, then called on Yan Ju to compete.

Lu Ya and the Demon Master visited the Emperor Yan Tribe, offering gifts and an alliance in exchange for Lu Ya becoming Emperor Yan’s disciple. Emperor Yan refused, and the Demon Master left after the tribe rejected his threats and Fangfeng challenged the visitors; Lu Ya and the Demon Master then continued their tour to approach other deities.

• Lu Ya and the Demon Master arrived at the Emperor Yan Tribe and offered treasures, an alliance, and a title in return for Emperor Yan accepting Lu Ya as his disciple.
• Emperor Yan rejected the offer, condemned the Celestial Court for the massacre at the Xi Huang Dao Kingdom, and rallied his people against the visitors.
• The Demon Master threatened the tribe, while Lu Ya challenged Yan Ju to a contest; Emperor Yan and Ting Yao refused to risk a fight involving their young son.
• Emperor Yan summoned Fangfeng to face the demons, and the Demon Master withdrew with Lu Ya and the treasure chests rather than accept the challenge.
• Lu Ya vowed revenge, and the Demon Master said they would continue visiting other deities to win allies or isolate those opposed to the Heavenly Realm.

Yan Ju tested his new divine-beast puppets against Heng'e, then learned that rising tensions threatened the alliance of the earth gods. He and Heng'e entered the Flame Emperor's Treasury to hide and cultivate, where Yan Ju began exploring its spiritual resources.

• Yan Ju developed six divine-beast puppets using carpentry and artifact-refining techniques, and defeated Heng'e with their sword formation before giving her the puppets.
• Ting Yao ordered Yan Ju and Heng'e to cultivate inside the Flame Emperor's Treasury, explaining that enemies would stir up war and seek to destroy the alliance of the earth gods.
• Yan Ju refused his parents' offer to send him to cultivate under the Heavenly Venerables atop East Kunlun, choosing to remain with the Flame Emperor Tribe.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e settled into a palace in the Treasury, where Yan Ju planned to cultivate the Great Sun Origin and explore the area's spiritual resources.
• Yan Ju brewed tea from tender leaves of a spiritual tea tree and began absorbing its mysteries.

Yan Ju and Heng'e cultivated in the Flame Emperor's Treasury, where a wondrous tea tree aided their progress, and Yan Ju began mastering artifact refinement and alchemy. After three years of seclusion, thunderous clashes beyond the secret realm suggested that powerful gods were fighting, leaving Yan Ju worried for the Flame Emperor couple.

• Heng'e drank tea from the ancient tree, gained a surge of comprehension, and advanced closer to becoming a Heavenly God.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e gathered spiritual fruits and studied in the Flame Emperor's Treasury while Yan Ju strengthened his divine body and comprehended the Solar Dao.
• Yan Ju carved out workshops, forged a pill furnace using the Six Harmonies Heavenly Scripture, and learned to refine Violet Gold Pure Yang Pills.
• Yan Ju cultivated for three more years and reached the peak of the High God realm.
• Thunderous clashes beyond the Flame Emperor Secret Realm alarmed Yan Ju and Heng'e, and Yan Ju held Heng'e's hand as he voiced his fear of dying with regrets.

Yan Ju waited out the upheaval in the Flame Emperor Secret Realm and learned that the Emperor Yan Tribe had survived the Celestial Court’s attack, though some clansmen were killed or injured. He began preparing to break through to the origin god realm, and the chapter ended as the Emperor Yan sensed that someone was about to make a move.

• Yan Ju and Heng'e discussed his feelings for her and waited as the chaos overhead moved away from the Flame Emperor Secret Realm.
• After two and a half years, Ting Yao arrived and told Yan Ju that the Emperor Yan Tribe had endured the attack, while the gods in the heavens had suffered more heavily.
• Yan Ju offered to leave the secret realm and fight, but Ting Yao told him to stay and cultivate until he could attain an origin god body.
• Yan Ju prepared to face the three tribulations required to enter the origin god realm and sent a message asking the Emperor Yan and Ting Yao for help.
• The Emperor Yan decided to seek aid in East Kunlun, then sensed that someone had lost patience and was about to act.

Heavenly Emperor Di Jun and Eastern Sovereign Taiyi chose to attack Dongwang Gong to seize his Dragon-Headed Staff and strengthen their claim to supreme-yang authority. Meanwhile, Yan Ju successfully merged with the Solar Dao and became an Origin God, while Heng'e began to recover fragments of her memories.

• Di Jun failed to pierce the obscured heavenly secrets and agreed with Taiyi that the Celestial Court needed to act quickly.
• Di Jun chose Dongwang Gong as their next target, and Taiyi departed to lead the stars against his overseas lineage.
• Emperor Yan and Ting Yao guarded Yan Ju as he began his breakthrough, with the Kongtong Seal concealing the Dao's fluctuations.
• Yan Ju endured the Solar Dao's rejection, formed a Solar Dao Fruit, and used his Heavenly Heart Mark to seize a portion of its authority.
• Yan Ju successfully became an Origin God of the Solar Dao, and Heng'e felt pain as fragments of memories surfaced.

Yan Ju refined pills and divine weapons, accepted Emperor Yan’s task to record and teach those crafts, and cultivated with Heng'e to deepen his understanding of yin and yang. Years later, ten Golden Crow princes set out from the Eastern Sea to intimidate the myriad races, despite Lu Ya’s misgivings.

• Heng'e recovered fragments of memories of a snowy world and an unknown girl, while Yan Ju led her away with him.
• Emperor Yan praised Yan Ju’s pill and artifact refinement, then asked him to compile and share notes with the tribe’s craftsmen; Yan Ju agreed.
• Yan Ju and Heng'e joined their solar and lunar origins, producing a months-long celestial phenomenon that strengthened Yan Ju and advanced his comprehension of innate yin and yang.
• Yan Ju spent the following years refining pills, artifacts, and formation flags while Emperor Yan and Ting Yao visited without disturbing him.
• After Emperor Yan and the Empress engaged Dongwang Gong in battle in the Eastern Sea, the ten Golden Crow princes flew toward the ancient land under the pretext of intimidating the myriad races.
• Lu Ya worried that the brothers might be ambushed, but joined their Ten Suns Heavenly Punishment Formation as they drew on the Solar Star’s power and set out.

As ten suns scorched the Eastern Sea and threatened the Emperor Yan Tribe, Yan Ju revealed the Nine-Source Divine Mountains and organized a vast formation to shield the tribe. The formation succeeded, and the Emperor Yan called on the gods to help extinguish the fires spreading across the land.

• Yan Ju, the Emperor Yan, and other gods sensed the ten suns’ devastating heat as it spread across the earth.
• Yan Ju presented the Nine-Source Divine Mountains and explained that they could power a formation to protect the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• The Emperor Yan ordered the tribe to gather food and shelter while Yan Ju selected gods, including Ting Yao and Heng'e, to establish the formation.
• Yan Ju and the other gods placed the nine divine mountains and activated the formation, which blocked the heat and extinguished fires within its barrier.
• The Emperor Yan asked the assembled gods to help put out the wider fire disaster and rescue living beings.

Emperor Yan and the gods struggled to contain the devastation caused by the Ten Suns Heavenly Punishment Formation, while Yan Ju absorbed and refined its solar fire. As a bow-wielding war god shot down the Golden Crows, Yan Ju sensed the Golden Crow Clan’s funeral bell tolling, and a furious voice rang across heaven and earth.

• Emperor Yan absorbed fires across the land and used the Shennong Cauldron to try to save survivors, while Yan Ju maintained the formation and refined its solar fire.
• Demon gods begged Great Sage Bifang to stop the ten princes, but he dismissed their losses and threatened Pinebeard Duke.
• Pinebeard Duke and Cang Xuan suspected Bifang was stalling them, but Bifang intercepted and captured them when they tried to leave for the Celestial Court.
• The Golden Crows killed gods who attacked their formation, until a golden-bow-wielding war god fired Lunar Star arrows and brought down several of them.
• Yan Ju watched the Golden Crows fall and sensed the Solar Star tremble as a furious voice called for the bowman to stop.

Eastern Sovereign Taiyi arrived after Hou Yi shot down nine Golden Crows, then fought the gathered ancient gods as they moved to overthrow the Celestial Court. As the Flame Emperor departed to join the war, Yan Ju took command of the Emperor Yan Tribe and brought the troubled Heng'e aside to question her.

• Eastern Sovereign Taiyi broke out of his secret realm, saw nine Golden Crows slain, and intervened as Hou Yi prepared to shoot the last one.
• Metal God Roushou and numerous ancient gods confronted Eastern Sovereign Taiyi, who realized the ten suns' rampage had been used to undermine the Celestial Court and the Golden Crow Clan.
• Eastern Sovereign Taiyi protected the surviving young Golden Crow and attacked Di Jiang, while the gods prepared to fight him before reinforcements arrived.
• Yan Ju returned to the Emperor Yan Tribe as the Flame Emperor gathered its elite to join the battle, and the Flame Emperor entrusted Ting Yao and Yan Ju with the tribe's safety.
• The Flame Emperor warned Yan Ju to beware troublemakers and left him a powerful ally in Flame Emperor Valley before departing for the battlefield.
• Yan Ju sealed the tribe, assigned defensive duties, and then took the distracted Heng'e into the palace to question her.

Yan Ju realized that someone had used Chang Xi’s Lunar origin to help Hou Yi kill the ten Golden Crow princes, threatening both the Solar and Lunar lineages. As chaos spread through Heaven and earth, he stabilized the Emperor Yan Tribe and gave Heng'e a way to strengthen her Daoheart by saving the trapped spirits.

• Heng'e told Yan Ju she had felt the ten Golden Crow princes die as if she had shot them herself, and Yan Ju deduced that someone had used Chang Xi’s extracted Lunar origin to forge the arrows.
• Yan Ju reassured Heng'e that he would face the consequences with her, and Heng'e promised to help stabilize the Emperor Yan Tribe.
• Yan Ju punished restless deities, reestablished the Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Nine-God Ancient Formation, and contained unrest as chaos and atrocities spread across the land.
• Ting Yao warned Yan Ju that evil gods might be testing the tribe, and Yan Ju sent a divine general to capture invading yin corpses and vicious ghosts with eighteen banners.
• Yan Ju gave the palace attendants puppet scouts, then ordered Heng'e to use the Daoheart Salvation art to save the spirits imprisoned in the banners.

Heng'e used Daoheart Salvation to soothe the resentful souls trapped in the Ten-Thousand Souls Divine Banner while Yan Ju sensed the Celestial Court’s battle claiming one ancient god after another. The Solar Star finally went dark, leaving Yan Ju relieved that the Sun God had fallen.

• Heng'e cultivated Daoheart Salvation and freed resentful spirits from the Ten-Thousand Souls Divine Banner, learning their tragic histories and easing their Killing Intent.
• Heng'e realized that saving the spirits was like enduring tribulations and would help her attain the Great Dao.
• Yan Ju sensed the spatial and wind great origins fluctuate as their occupying ancient gods fell, then felt the sun and celestial-phenomena origins convulse together.
• Yan Ju detected further upheaval in the metal, lightning, rain, and wood great origins as the All-Heaven Star Array appeared and the Celestial Court’s stars were devastated.
• The Lunar Star went dark and was relit as blood rain fell, and Yan Ju suspected Xihe had fallen and Di Jun was gravely wounded.
• The Solar Star went dark, and Yan Ju relaxed, believing the last Sun God had fallen.

Yan Ju was attacked by the Earth-Origin Baleful Deity, but Sui Ren appeared and defeated the evil god. Sui Ren urged Yan Ju to protect the Emperor Yan Tribe and prepare for the coming age, leaving Yan Ju to await Emperor Yan Shennong’s return.

• Yan Ju seized more authority over the sun while meditating in the Emperor Yan Palace.
• The Earth-Origin Baleful Deity attacked the Emperor Yan Tribe, shattered its defenses, and threatened Yan Ju.
• Yan Ju called on Ancestor Sui, who appeared and fought the Earth-Origin Baleful Deity across spacetime.
• Sui Ren overcame the evil god’s curse and used his divine arts to defeat him.
• Sui Ren told Yan Ju to protect the Emperor Yan Tribe and preserve its people, then returned to cultivate in Flame Emperor Valley.
• Yan Ju resolved to guard the tribe and await Emperor Yan Shennong’s return.

After more than twenty years in seclusion, Yang Huai reached new heights in cultivation and traveled to Suspended Spirit Island to heal Taichuzi’s Dao injury. He and Yuan Xiuxiu reunited, but she revealed her celestial identity and announced that she would ascend to the Purple Palace in a few months, leaving Yang Huai warned about the banished immortals seeking him.

• Yang Huai emerged from seclusion with his cultivation nearing the peak of the Golden Immortal realm and traveled to Suspended Spirit Island to help Taichuzi.
• Yuan Xiuxiu sensed someone entering the island’s formation, then welcomed Yang Huai when he appeared before her pavilion.
• Yang Huai used innate yin-yang divine light to remove Taichuzi’s Dao injury and restored his weakened Primordial Spirit with pure-yang essence qi.
• Taichuzi thanked Yang Huai for healing him, and Yang Huai and Yuan Xiuxiu spent time together on the island.
• Yuan Xiuxiu revealed that she was the daughter of the Purple Origin Celestial Lord and said she would ascend to the Purple Palace in a few months.
• Yuan Xiuxiu told Yang Huai to seek her in the Purple Palace and warned him that banished immortals might target him because Tai Bai had descended into the world.

Yang Huai learned that Yuan Xiuxiu was a Purple Palace princess and that marrying her would require him to reach at least the Grand Unity Immortal realm, then parted from her and returned to visit his family. Back at Heavenly Gold Cave, his Dao heart stirred a powerful resonance, while Emperor Yan Shennong returned to the Emperor Yan Tribe.

• Yuan Xiuxiu explained that she could not risk remaining in the mortal world and planned to ascend to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.
• Black Prison told Yang Huai that Yuan Xiuxiu was the daughter of the Purple Origin Celestial Lord and that he would need to become a Grand Unity Immortal to marry into her family.
• Yang Huai shared a family banquet with Yuan Xiuxiu and Taichuzi, then left Suspended Spirit Island after Yuan Xiuxiu and Black Prison entered seclusion.
• Yang Huai visited Father Yang and Mother Yang in Huangshan County, then returned to Spirit-Fusion Peak and meditated as his Dao resonance calmed the surrounding cultivators.
• Ji Mingxue sensed Yang Huai's Dao-heart power and judged that he could contend with the Patriarch's Dao achievements.
• Yan Ju guarded the Emperor Yan Tribe until Emperor Yan Shennong returned amid celestial music and divine lights.

After the Emperor Yan returned, Yan Ju offered Fuxi and Shennong advice on strengthening the human race, while Fuxi was chosen as its common ruler and his daughter Xuanji entered Tingyao’s service. Yan Ju refused to pursue Xuanji and focused on Heng’e and his cultivation, but Heng’e’s sudden transformation suggested Chang Xi’s consciousness was awakening.

• Emperor Yan asked Yan Ju for his judgment, and Yan Ju urged the human race to strengthen itself patiently, unite allies, and develop systems and cultivation methods.
• Fuxi praised Yan Ju’s insight and suggested he manage the tribe, but Yan Ju declined; Shennong then proposed Fuxi as the human race’s common ruler and urged him to accept.
• Fuxi’s daughter Xuanji stayed at Tingyao’s side to study the Dao of water, while Yan Ju suspected her placement served a political purpose.
• Yan Ju cultivated innate yin and yang with Heng’e and told her he would not pursue Xuanji merely to advance his ambitions.
• Tingyao learned that Yan Ju was spending his time with Heng’e and decided not to interfere, while she sensed a new life growing within her.
• Heng’e awoke in a burst of lunar radiance, and Yan Ju recognized the signs that Chang Xi’s consciousness was about to awaken.

After Heng'e's memories of her past as Chang Xi resurfaced, she and Yan Ju discussed her former sister, her unresolved grievances, and their relationship. Heng'e took revenge on Yan Ju, then guided his Lunar Dao cultivation, while he began gathering ghosts to aid her and prepare for his own plans.

• Yan Ju used the Pure-Cleansing Ancient Emperor Divine Seal to ease Heng'e's pain as her Lunar divine power surfaced and memories of Chang Xi returned.
• Heng'e recounted how her elder sister fell in love, left her alone on the Lunar moon, and later tried to trade her for the Celestial Court's benefit; she vowed to discover who had plotted against them and stolen her origin.
• Heng'e declared that Yan Ju had to repay the grievance of bullying her, and the two remained in the Lesser Flame Hall for several months as Lunar and Solar manifestations appeared above it.
• Crown Prince Changqin challenged Yan Ju again, but Yan Ju dismissed him and said he should first cultivate the Dao-Origin Fire.
• Yan Ju advanced in the Lunar Dao with Heng'e's guidance and gave her Myriad Souls Banners to help save collected ghosts and evil specters.
• Yan Ju sent Emperor Yan Tribe clansmen to gather ghosts both to aid Heng'e and to clear the land, prepare for reincarnation-related plans, and build a force of evil-suppressing Dao soldiers.