Recaps

Lu Chen learned more about Hu Sanniang’s history and Zhao Wuya’s schemes, then discovered Lan’er planned to leave Jiangdu with Chun’er to help the young dragon grow. Lan’er asked whether Chun’er should pursue the position of River Dragon King or Sea Dragon King.

• Hu Sanniang warned Lu Chen that Zhao Wuya monitored him and explained that Zhao Wanliang likely resented his grandfather for sacrificing sixty years of his lifespan.
• Hu Sanniang revealed she had secretly watched Lu Chen at the South City Office before they met on City God Street, then left in a wisp of smoke.
• Hu Sanniang told Zhao Wuya that Lu Chen had promised to speak in his favor, and Zhao Wuya promised her the position of Jiangdu City God after he became a Prefect.
• Lu Chen found Lan’er asleep at home, released Chun’er, and heard that Lan’er planned to travel with the young dragon so she could absorb spiritual energy and learn dragon arts.
• Lan’er gave Lu Chen a dragon scale as a warning signal and agreed to take Chun’er to visit her clan uncle, Huai Lie, the Xu River Dragon King.
• Lan’er asked Lu Chen whether he wanted Chun’er to cultivate the position of River Dragon King or Sea Dragon King.

Lu Chen chose the Sea Dragon Kinghood for Chun’er, setting her on a path toward conflict with the Four Seas Dragon Kings, and learned that his master had made him Deputy Marshal of the Military Department. He then visited the Sun Clan Temple, promoted his own Lu Clan Temple to two spirit users, and ran into Sun Yourong while preparing to worship the Giant Spirit God.

• Lu Chen chose the Sea Dragon Kinghood for Chun’er, whose transformation triggered a storm over Jiangdu and upheaval in the East Sea that enraged Ao Guang.
• A powerful Holy Lord and two subordinates froze the East Sea’s waves, discussed Ao Guang’s anger and Lu Chen’s abilities, then departed.
• Lan’er warned that Chun’er would eventually have to defeat or kill the Four Seas Dragon Kings, while Lu Chen insisted they would face that conflict regardless of their choice.
• Lu Chen told Lan’er that her master had appointed him Deputy Marshal of the Military Department, called the Pagoda-Subduing Heavenly King, and given him the Binding Demon Rope.
• At the Sun Clan Temple, Lu Chen advertised the Lu Clan Temple to two visiting spirit users, who learned from their guide that he was the Lu Family Head behind the Plague Sweep Style.
• Lu Chen bought incense and headed toward the Giant Spirit God Hall, where he met Sun Yourong and offered to give her a stroke of fortune.

Lu Chen brought Sun Yourong to the Giant Spirit God Temple, where the Giant Spirit God manifested and gave him the Binding Demon Rope. After arranging for the treasure to be sealed in Lu Chen’s sea of consciousness, Lu Chen asked the Giant Spirit God and the Four Heavenly Kings to manage the Imperial Horse Office for him.

• Lu Chen took Sun Yourong to the Giant Spirit God Temple and told her to wait while he offered incense.
• The Giant Spirit God manifested in response to Lu Chen’s worship and invited him into his sea of consciousness.
• Lu Chen tried to take the Binding Demon Rope but learned that his mortal body could not wield the spiritual treasure.
• The Giant Spirit God sealed the Binding Demon Rope in Lu Chen’s sea of consciousness for him to use after attaining divine rank.
• Lu Chen asked the Giant Spirit God to help arrange for the Four Heavenly Kings to manage the Imperial Horse Office, leaving the Giant Spirit God stunned.

Lu Chen pressured the Giant Spirit God into handling the ledgers and arranging Sun Yourong’s blessing, which advanced her to the fourth rank. Meanwhile, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s rogue pagoda repeatedly swallowed passing immortals, leaving him furious and fearing the consequences as he reached the Northern Pole Exorcism Office.

• Lu Chen forced the Giant Spirit God to take charge of the ledgers and learned that Sun Yourong had been the Giant Spirit God’s sworn younger sister in a past life.
• The Giant Spirit God blessed Sun Yourong, and she broke through from the third rank to the fourth rank.
• Sun Yourong questioned Lu Chen about his influence over the Giant Spirit God, but he offered an implausible explanation and pushed her toward a celebratory meal.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s Exquisite Pagoda independently swallowed two divine generals, then released them when he commanded it.
• The pagoda repeatedly swallowed the Star Lord of Fate, General Fagang, and other immortals, prompting the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King to curse his way toward the Northern Pole Exorcism Office.

Broom Star joined the Plague Department as Lu Chen’s Dharma Protector God and agreed to monitor the Imperial Horse Office’s accounts. In Jiangdu, Lan’er and Chun’er left after saying goodbye to Lu Chen, who then received a report from Zeng Rou about the company’s revenue.

• Lu Chen offered Broom Star a position as his Dharma Protector God, gold, robes, and an assignment to watch the Imperial Horse Office; they sealed an Imperial Concord Pact.
• Zhou Xin welcomed Broom Star into the Plague Department and defended him when Heavenly soldiers and immortal maidens mocked him, leaving Broom Star feeling that he had finally stood up for himself.
• Three days later in Jiangdu, Lu Chen gave Lan’er a Sumeru Ring of supplies and warned her to contact him or turn back if she encountered trouble.
• Lan’er concealed Chun’er and flew away, bidding farewell to Lu Chen.
• Zeng Rou approached Lu Chen with account books to report the company’s revenue.

Lu Chen and Zeng Rou reviewed the cult’s growing spirit-money and Plague Pill businesses before discovering that bad luck had corrupted the secret realm’s remaining treasures into poisonous materials. Lu Chen decided to hand most of the corrupted stock to the court, expecting to earn twenty thousand military merits.

• Zeng Rou reported that spirit-money revenue had surpassed one billion, Plague Pill sales were growing, and salespeople were gaining divine abilities through worship of the Plague Department deities.
• Zeng Rou told Lu Chen that her Divine Service Ratings had reached 30% for the Plague Lord and 27% for Lord Yama, while Elder Wang had reached 33% worshipping Zhu Tianlin and received a pill-refining treasure.
• Lu Chen and Zeng Rou entered the secret realm and found its outer region devastated, with most remaining materials unsuitable for high-grade Plague Pills.
• Zeng Rou touched Foul-Qi Poria and warned Lu Chen that it brought bad luck, prompting him to realize that bad luck had mutated all the secret realm’s remaining treasures into poisonous substances.
• Lu Chen and Zeng Rou inventoried the corrupted materials and found several ingredients useful for Plague Pills, but most of the stock had little value to them.
• Lu Chen proposed taking the usable materials and handing the rest to the court through Yu Feng’s development plan, expecting to receive twenty thousand military merits.

Lu Chen discussed the Lu Clan Temple’s prospects and learned about the sects of Inner Xiangnan, including the West Ward Sect. In Heaven, the Matchmaker God tied a black slipknot between Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong, and both awoke thinking of each other.

• Zeng Rou advised Lu Chen to target the Zhao family because Zhao Gongming’s temple drew worshippers away from the Lu Clan Temple, while the Qin, Zhao, and Wu families subsidized visitors as compensation.
• Lu Chen planned a month of rest, asked Zeng Rou to commission blue and red Daoist robes, and heard her describe Inner Xiangnan and the West Ward Sect.
• The Matchmaker God confirmed that Zhao Wanliang had fulfilled the required number of three threes and decided to grant him a destined marriage with Sun Yourong.
• The Matchmaker God ordered Fire Phoenix to tie Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong together with a black thread and a slipknot.
• That night, Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong awoke in their separate family residences and called each other’s names in their thoughts.

Sun Yourong discovered that Zhao Wanliang had bound her to a blackish-red marriage thread, and Lu Chen sought help from the Lord God of Wealth after he could no longer contact him directly. The Lord God of Wealth and Broom Star reached Red Luan Star Manor, where Matchmaker God greeted them, saying he had been waiting.

• Sun Yourong woke to find a blackish-red thread beneath her skin and rushed with Sun Qingcang to Lu Chen for help.
• Sun Yourong told Lu Chen and Sun Qingcang that Zhao Wanliang's face kept appearing in her mind and made her feel sick, while recalling another woman trapped by a similar marriage bond.
• Lu Chen tried three times to summon the Lord God of Wealth, but the incense went out; he then sent Broom Star to deliver an urgent message.
• Broom Star reached the Lord God of Wealth Hall despite the Northern Pole Exorcism Office's guards, and the Lord God of Wealth set out to investigate the bond.
• The Lord God of Wealth and Broom Star arrived at Red Luan Star Manor, where Matchmaker God welcomed them and invited them inside.

The Matchmaker God revealed that Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong were bound by a Severing-Fate Thread, then asked Lord God of Wealth to help him test whether Lu Chen could break it. Lord God of Wealth agreed to keep the plan secret for now, though he warned that the Matchmaker God’s final chance might lead to consequences neither of them could control.

• The Matchmaker God showed Lord God of Wealth the Severing-Fate Thread on Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong, which would erase their memories of one another in nine days.
• The Matchmaker God asked Lord God of Wealth not to tell Lu Chen yet because he wanted to test Lu Chen’s abilities before asking for help with a matter that violated heavenly law.
• Lord God of Wealth warned the Matchmaker God to reconsider, but the Matchmaker God insisted that he had already decided to act.
• The Matchmaker God explained that if Lu Chen broke the thread, he would arrange suitable marriages for Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong and pursue his larger plan; if Lu Chen failed, the matter would end.
• Lord God of Wealth accepted the plan after warning that events might move beyond their control, and the Matchmaker God called it his final chance.

After learning the Severing-Fate Thread was not a marriage thread and Sun Yourong would be unharmed, Lu Chen discovered that the Matchmaker God had used it to test him and was offering a major commission. Lu Chen decided to try to break the tribulation, drawn by the chance to advance to a great clan, though the commission’s true purpose remained unknown.

• Lord God of Wealth told Broom Star that the thread on Sun Yourong was a Severing-Fate Thread and that the Matchmaker God would entrust Lu Chen with a commission if he broke the tribulation within nine days.
• Broom Star reported that Lu Chen could earn a great-clan advancement opportunity or ten thousand military merits for trying, and that Sun Yourong was only bait for the test.
• Lu Chen calculated that the unknown commission could offer at least sixty thousand military merits, enough to make it a top-tier SS-rank or possibly SSS-rank mission.
• Lu Chen reassured Sun Qingcang and Sun Yourong that Sun Yourong was safe, then explained that the Matchmaker God’s test was aimed at him.
• Lu Chen told them he intended to break the Severing-Fate Thread and admitted that the prospect of the Matchmaker God’s commission had caught his interest.

Lu Chen considered how to break the Love Fate Tribulation and went to the Zhao Clan Temple to worship the Harmony Immortals. After confronting Zhao Zhihong and drawing worshippers toward the Lu Clan Temple, he found that the Harmony Immortals recognized him before he could pray.

• Lu Chen concluded that dealing with Zhao Wuya was urgent while the Matchmaker God's commission and the Love Fate Tribulation could take time.
• Lu Chen asked Sun Yourong about temples devoted to the Harmony Immortals and the God of Happiness, then chose to visit the Zhao Clan Temple.
• Lu Chen caught Zhao Zhihong bullying a worshipper, demanded compensation and more worshippers from Zhao Wanliang, and beat Zhao Zhihong when he protested.
• Lu Chen gave money to the mistreated worshipper and invited the crowd to visit the Lu Clan Temple, prompting worshippers to leave the Zhao Clan Temple.
• Lu Chen offered incense before the Harmony Immortals, whose divine voice recognized him as Registrar Lu of the Imperial Horse Office.

Lu Chen learned that only the Moon Goddess might be able to undo his friend’s tribulation of fated love, but seeking Her help could turn him into a woman. He summoned Sun Yourong and went to the Wu Clan Temple, where he demanded that the Wu family answer for its debt.

• Lu Chen offered wine and swore brotherhood with the Harmony Immortals, He An and He Ning, who advised him to petition the Moon Goddess because the Matchmaker God was their superior.
• He An warned Lu Chen that the Moon Goddess might punish a male worshipper by turning him into a woman, perhaps permanently, and He Ning said She loved opera but was unlikely to be impressed by familiar tricks.
• Lu Chen considered performing an opera for the Goddess, then called Sun Yourong to meet him at the Wu Clan Temple.
• At the Zhao family estate, Zhao Wanliang told Zhao Wuya that he had secured the Matchmaker God’s red thread tying him to Sun Yourong; Zhao Wuya warned him to wait until the prefectural City God position was settled.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Wu Clan Temple and ordered its attendant to summon Old Wu, declaring that he had come to collect a debt.

Lu Chen forced Old Wu to hand over the Wu family’s forty prime-location shops, then went with Sun Yourong to pray to the Lunar Star Lord for help against the Matchmaker God. In the Moon Palace, the Lunar Star Lord’s attendant noticed the unusual incense from a man and suspected it came from the mortal who had recently caused a stir in Heaven.

• Lu Chen threatened to exchange the Cinnabar Iron Pardon unless Old Wu explained the promised follow-up measures, and Old Wu agreed to give him all forty shops.
• Sun Yourong arrived at the Wu Family Shrine, and Lu Chen took her to the Lunar Star Lord Hall to pray for the Moon Goddess’s help.
• Lu Chen offered incense and silently recited the Lunar Invocation Incantation, hoping to draw the Lunar Star Lord’s attention.
• The Lunar Star Lord discussed the scheme targeting her incarnation with her attendant and said she would refuse outright rather than let it succeed.
• The attendant connected the strange incense from a male worshipper to the mortal who stole the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda and received a heavenly post.

Lu Chen failed to get a response from Lunar Star Lord and considered staging a provocative Hou Yi and Chang'e play to catch her attention. He then remembered Broom Star and rushed off with Sun Yourong to seek his help, while Broom Star felt an ominous chill in the Heavenly Court.

• Lu Chen's incense offering brought no response from Lunar Star Lord, and he left the Wu Family Shrine with Sun Yourong.
• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong discussed ways to gain Lunar Star Lord's attention, and Lu Chen proposed performing Hou Yi Chases Chang'e before her.
• Sun Yourong warned Lu Chen that provoking the Moon Goddess could bring dangerous consequences, but Lu Chen considered the plan worth attempting.
• Lu Chen remembered Broom Star and hurried off with Sun Yourong to seek his help.
• Broom Star sneezed on his way to the Imperial Horse Office and sensed an ominous feeling.

Lu Chen learned that Broom Star’s misfortune could not safely protect him from the Moon Goddess, leaving Matchmaker God’s commission unresolved. He considered using divine talismans to redirect the danger, but lacked the register rank needed to draw them legally.

• Broom Star warned Lu Chen that misfortune could fail against the Moon Goddess’s divine punishment, harm others, and erode Lu Chen’s fate if used repeatedly.
• Lu Chen accepted that he could not risk his fate, and Sun Yourong suggested abandoning the commission despite its guaranteed sixty thousand military merits.
• Lu Chen explained that his ritual arrays required an external initial cause, so they could not resolve a tribulation for which he was both cause and result.
• Lu Chen revealed that he could use talisman paper to guide misfortune away from himself, but true divine talismans required a register rank approved by the Jade Emperor.
• Lu Chen explained that drawing divine talismans without Register Ordination would amount to privately summoning the Heavenly Court’s gods and could bring serious trouble.

Lu Chen realized he could bypass formal register ordination by making a private talisman, provided his merit and cultivation could sustain its power. He prepared to create a spiritual treasure that used Broom Star’s bad luck, leaving Broom Star stunned by Lu Chen’s plan to do the gods’ work himself.

• Sun Yourong suggested that ordinary worship already relied on the Jade Emperor’s approval, prompting Lu Chen to reconsider his belief that he needed an official register to draw divine talismans.
• Lu Chen concluded he could make private talismans as long as his merit and cultivation supported them, and thanked Sun Yourong for opening his eyes to the idea.
• Lu Chen purified himself, burned incense, and prepared to draw a Talisman for Sweeping Away Calamity connected to Broom Star.
• Lu Chen summoned Broom Star and proposed making a talisman spiritual treasure, asking him to contribute bad luck rather than bestow a blessing directly.
• Broom Star protested that he could not produce a spiritual treasure, but Lu Chen said he would make the treasure embryo himself and insisted he would try refining it.

Lu Chen successfully created spiritual-treasure talismans with Broom Star’s divine power and confirmed his merit cultivation had reached the Alliance Authority Register level. As a dangerous full-moon night approached, he prepared protections for Sun Yourong and the residents of Southern Mountain Residential Compound, then met Sun Yourong at Wu Clan Temple for their planned roles as Chang’e and Hou Yi.

• Lu Chen drew a Calamity-Sweeping Disaster Talisman with Broom Star’s help, and the deity’s mark infused it with divine power.
• Sun Yourong tested the talisman by striking Lu Chen with her axe; the barrier blocked it and hurled the weapon back, consuming the talisman, while Lu Chen confirmed his cultivation had reached the Alliance Authority Register level.
• Lu Chen made eighteen talismans, gave Sun Yourong three for her family, and arranged to meet her at Wu Clan Temple at eight that night.
• Lu Chen gathered the adult men of Southern Mountain Residential Compound in two activity rooms, placed talismans there, and instructed them to remain inside after moonrise.
• At eight, Lu Chen waited at Wu Clan Temple and watched Sun Yourong arrive dressed in white as the moon rose.

Lu Chen and Sun Yourong staged a performance of Chang'e Flies to the Moon before the Lunar Star Lord, despite the taboo against men worshipping Her. The Lunar Star Lord found Lu Chen interesting, but Her silver-white divine light struck him, leaving his fate unknown.

• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong entered the Lunar Temple in ancient-style clothes while Old Wu and the heads of the Wu, Qin, and Zhao families watched them on a screen.
• Wu Jingzhi explained that men who worshipped the Lunar Star Lord risked being turned into women, and the three family heads celebrated Lu Chen's presumed downfall.
• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong offered incense, then Sun Yourong rose into the air as Lu Chen began acting out Chang'e Flies to the Moon.
• The Lunar Star Lord recognized Lu Chen through the incense and watched his performance, including his cries as Hou Yi for Chang'e.
• The Lunar Star Lord called Lu Chen interesting and unleashed a blast of divine light at him.

Lu Chen endured the Lunar Star Lord’s divine punishments with talismans, while their aftershocks turned men across Jiangdu City into women. After his talismans were exhausted, a fourth beam pierced Lu Chen, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lu Chen’s first two divine punishments were blocked by his Calamity-Sweeping Disaster Talismans, though their aftershocks transformed male shrine staff into women.
• The Lunar Star Lord gathered a third, stronger punishment, destroying the temple’s surveillance equipment as Lu Chen urged Sun Yourong to escape.
• Lu Chen revealed the talismans covering his body, but the third punishment burned through most of them and its citywide aftershock transformed men throughout Jiangdu, including Wu Jingzhi, Zhao Wanliang, and Yu Feng.
• With his remaining talismans destroyed, Lu Chen watched a fourth beam pierce his body.

Lu Chen met the Lunar Star Lord in her sea of consciousness and agreed to travel to Haicheng to carry out a task in exchange for her help with his Love Fate Tribulation. After returning to the Wu Clan Temple, he discovered the staff had all turned into women, and the Lunar Star Lord realized that Lu Chen’s past was obscured by heavenly secrets.

• The Lunar Star Lord pulled Lu Chen into her sea of consciousness, searched his memories, and heard his request for help with the Love Fate Tribulation.
• The Lunar Star Lord agreed to help if Lu Chen went to Haicheng and worshipped at the Chang Clan Temple, where she would explain his task.
• Lu Chen returned to the Wu Clan Temple and found that every Wu family staff member had turned into a woman; he promised compensation and said their condition would soon reverse.
• Lu Chen told Sun Yourong he had to leave for Haicheng, and she drove him there after he assured his parents he was taking a short vacation.
• Back in the Moon Palace, the Lunar Star Lord discovered that heavenly secrets obscured Lu Chen’s past and wondered whether he could help her with the Matchmaker God.

Lu Chen and Sun Yourong visited the Chang Family Temple in Haicheng, where Lu Chen’s worship drew the attention of the Lunar Star Lord. She offered to resolve his romantic-fate tribulation if he stopped Spirit Cypress Immortal from using her incarnation in a scheme to become her child.

• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong discussed the Chang family’s power, its completed missions, and how prestigious families maintained their influence in Haicheng.
• At the Chang Family Temple, Lu Chen saw its three SS-rank missions, twelve S-rank missions, and two hundred divine seats before entering the Lunar Temple alone.
• Lu Chen lit incense for the Moon Goddess, and the statue of the Lunar Star Lord glowed as she spoke to him.
• The Lunar Star Lord promised to resolve the Matchmaker God’s romantic-fate tribulation if Lu Chen settled a matter involving one of her incarnations.
• The Lunar Star Lord identified Spirit Cypress Immortal as the culprit and revealed that it planned to use her incarnation to perform “Borrowing a Womb to Grow a Lotus.”

The Lunar Star Lord recruited Lu Chen to stop Spirit Cypress Immortal’s essence soul from entering her incarnation’s womb, promising him Moon-Dew Congealed Radiance in return. Lu Chen agreed after learning the scheme involved heavenly soldiers above Haicheng and the Wheel-Turning King in the underworld, then asked the Lunar Star Lord to send hundreds of moon maidens to help.

• The Lunar Star Lord revealed that Spirit Cypress Immortal planned to reincarnate into her incarnation’s child and use the Moon Palace’s power to advance his own lineage.
• The Lunar Star Lord asked Lu Chen to prevent Spirit Cypress Immortal’s essence soul from entering the womb, offering to resolve his romantic tribulation and grant him another opportunity.
• The Lunar Star Lord promised Lu Chen Moon-Dew Congealed Radiance, a supreme resource for advancing his Four Rivers Dragon Seeds, and explained that the scheme would unfold in about three days.
• The Lunar Star Lord said Spirit Cypress Immortal had stationed heavenly soldiers above Haicheng and colluded with the Wheel-Turning King to have an underworld constable deliver his reincarnated essence soul to the Chang family.
• Lu Chen accepted the task and asked the Lunar Star Lord to send eight hundred or a thousand moon maidens to join the battle, prompting her to mock his grand request.

Lu Chen learned that he would receive no troops from the Lunar Star Lord and began planning to thwart Spirit Cypress Immortal’s scheme by seeking the Wheel-Turning King’s help. After spotting the Cypress Four Generals guarding Chang Residence, he entered the Underworld Hall and confronted temple workers who mistreated a worshipper.

• The Lunar Star Lord refused to assign Lu Chen troops, urged him to use his three divine offices, and warned him to keep Chang Suqing’s incarnation secret.
• Lu Chen used the Lunar Dharma Eye to spot heavenly soldiers and the Cypress Four Generals above the clouds, then decided to seek advice from his godfather, King Yama.
• Wither-and-Bloom General told the other generals to guard Chang Residence closely until Spirit Cypress Immortal’s incarnation essence was sent there in three days.
• Lu Chen bought black incense and entered the Underworld Hall, where he saw temple workers seize a worshipper trying to burn spirit money for his deceased daughter.
• Lu Chen knocked the workers aside and angrily declared that he did not care about the Chang family, shocking the worshippers in the hall.

Lu Chen protected a worshipper burning spirit money at a Chang family temple, where Chang Tai recognized him and invited him to the Chang family's master's birthday. Lu Chen summoned King Yama to ask him to prevent Spirit Cypress Immortal's unjust reincarnation, leaving King Yama horrified by the danger of the request.

• Lu Chen drove off the temple staff who tried to stop a worshipper from burning spirit money and learned that temples across Haicheng restricted the practice.
• Chang Tai arrived, recognized Lu Chen as the Lu family head, punished an insolent subordinate, and let worshippers burn spirit money in Lu Chen's honor.
• Chang Tai invited Lu Chen to his master's eightieth birthday, and Lu Chen accepted his business card.
• Lu Chen prayed to King Yama, who answered after complaining that Lu Chen had neglected him.
• Lu Chen asked King Yama to pull strings with the Wheel-Turning King to prevent Spirit Cypress Immortal from reincarnating unjustly, and King Yama protested that the request could get him killed.

King Yama warned Lu Chen that Spirit Cypress Immortal’s stature made the rebirth scheme dangerous, then explained that Lu Chen would face four major obstacles if he pursued the Lunar Star Lord’s commission. He left Lu Chen waiting to hear what those obstacles were.

• King Yama explained Spirit Cypress Immortal’s high status and warned Lu Chen against meddling in His incarnation plan.
• Lu Chen recounted Matchmaker God’s test and the Lunar Star Lord’s commission, but King Yama refused to reveal uncertain details about the Heavenly family’s affairs.
• Lu Chen considered abandoning the mission, but King Yama warned that refusing the Lunar Star Lord could offend Her.
• King Yama pointed out that the local City God, Heaven-Patrolling Dingjia, and Spirit Cypress Immortal’s informant could obstruct the plan, while a direct intervention by Spirit Cypress Immortal risked provoking the Moon Goddess.
• King Yama said the rebirth would happen because the Netherworld tolerated such arrangements, then declared that Lu Chen would have to overcome four obstacles to succeed.