Recaps

Qian Renxue revealed her identity to Ning Fengzhi before entering the palace to launch the coup, while Lu Yuan blocked the imperial knights at a bridge. As Spirit Hall ordered the operation stopped and Qian Renxue faced Xue Ye, Lu Yuan chose to keep the newcomers from reaching her.

• Qian Renxue revealed herself to Ning Fengzhi and asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to stay out of the palace; Ning Fengzhi agreed to close its doors for the night.
• Lu Yuan secured Dugu Bo’s promise to stay out of the Imperial City, and Qian Renxue warned him Spirit Hall might intervene before they parted with a brief kiss.
• Xue Qinghe entered the palace, where Ge Long’s faction began taking over the gates, while Lu Yuan blocked Xue Ye’s direct knights at the Stone Bridge and damaged the bridge to stop their advance.
• Qian Renxue revealed herself to Xue Ye in his bedchamber and told him she had handled the Crown Prince’s duties for years.
• Lu Yuan saw Qian Renxue’s Palace Coup destiny node marked for failure, then faced Spirit Hall Spirit Masters who ordered the coup halted and demanded Qian Renxue come out.

Lu Yuan blocked the Spirit Hall and imperial forces at East Bridge while Qian Renxue tried to secure control of the palace. Xue Ye revealed a hidden enshrined elder and sent a Crimson-Gold Imperial Edict to mobilize troops, leaving Lu Yuan racing after the dispatch as the outcome still showed failure.

• Lu Yuan refused to let the Spirit Hall Spirit Masters cross East Bridge, while Qian Renxue confronted Xue Ye in the palace.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Dugu Bo declined to intervene, and Lu Yuan blocked the Eastern Suburban Direct Knights Camp at the bridge.
• Xue Ye revealed a hidden white-haired elder and sent a young guard away with a Crimson-Gold Imperial Edict to summon troops from the West Camp, North Camp, and outside garrisons.
• Qian Renxue confronted the white-haired elder as Lu Yuan's Eye of Destiny identified the Crimson-Gold Imperial Edict as the critical failure point.
• Lu Yuan used Return-to-Ruin to wound the gray-robed elder and destroy East Bridge, trapping the direct knights across the river.
• Lu Yuan turned toward the west and pursued the escaping dispatch while the Eye of Destiny still showed the original outcome as failure.

Lu Yuan stopped the Crimson-Gold Imperial Edict from reaching the West Camp, while Qian Renxue defeated the consecrated elder and rejected the Papal Hall’s order to abandon the coup. With Xue Ye’s expected reinforcements unable to arrive, Qian Renxue confronted him as the palace coup remained unresolved.

• Lu Yuan pursued the courier while Qian Renxue fought the white-haired consecrated elder in Xue Ye’s bedchamber.
• Qian Renxue defeated the elder, refused the Papal Hall’s command to withdraw, and declared that she would take Tiangou that night.
• Lu Yuan hurled the Return-to-Ruin Spear into the Crimson-Gold Imperial Edict tube before the West Camp general could receive it, then destroyed the edict and escaped the camp’s pursuit.
• Lu Yuan’s actions invalidated the original failure outcome and greatly rewrote Qian Renxue’s fate, but his spear showed that its final evolution opportunity had not yet arrived.
• Lu Yuan returned to the palace and told Qian Renxue that the edict was destroyed and the eastern knights were blocked; she asked Xue Ye who else he was waiting for.

Qian Renxue secured Xue Ye’s Regency Edict and Imperial Seal, then took control of Heaven Dou Empire’s government as Crown Prince Regent. Lu Yuan’s destiny changed, while Qian Renxue ended the Tiandou Plan and declared she would take power openly.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Xue Ye to issue a Regency Edict and hand over the Imperial Seal, while Lu Yuan’s destiny messages recorded two rewritten nodes.
• The court accepted Xue Qinghe as Crown Prince Regent, with Ge Long and Ning Fengzhi leading the ministers in paying respect.
• Ning Rongrong questioned Lu Yuan about destroying East Bridge and intercepting the Imperial Edict, then checked his injured hand.
• Qian Renxue burned the Papal Hall’s Secret Letter and told its Spirit Masters that the Tiandou Plan was over.
• Qian Renxue began reviewing reports as regent and said she no longer needed to remain undercover because she was taking power.

After the Palace Coup, Qian Renxue finished securing the palace and asked Lu Yuan to stay with her for the night. Their destinies intertwined, fulfilling the Return-to-Ruin Spear’s seventh evolution condition and beginning its evolution.

• Qian Renxue sealed the imperial palace’s secret passages and reassigned those who knew how to operate them.
• Qian Renxue shed her Xue Qinghe disguise and asked Lu Yuan to stay with her that night.
• Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue spent the night together while he carefully avoided her injuries.
• The Eye of Destiny showed Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue’s paths overlapping and their destiny bond changing into linked paths.
• The Return-to-Ruin Spear’s seventh evolution condition was met, and its seventh evolution began.

Lu Yuan’s Martial Soul completed its seventh evolution after his and Qian Renxue’s destinies fully merged, becoming the Fate-Breaking Spear with the core trait Force Shifting. He decided to return to Spirit City and test the spear against Qian Daoliu once matters in Tiangou settled down.

• Lu Yuan’s and Qian Renxue’s destiny threads overlapped, triggering the fusion of the origin of destiny with his Return-to-Ruin Spear.
• Lu Yuan’s spear completed its seventh evolution and became the Fate-Breaking Spear, with all its accumulated abilities fused into the trait Force Shifting.
• Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue tested the new spear, and Lu Yuan redirected her soul power aside with a light tap.
• Lu Yuan explained that Force Shifting could alter formed attacks but could not overcome a large gap in strength, and Qian Renxue approved of the spear’s name.
• Lu Yuan decided to return to Spirit City after things settled in Tiangou and show the evolved spear to Qian Daoliu.

Lu Yuan returned to Spirit City and tested the Fate-Breaking Spear’s seventh evolution against Qian Daoliu, discovering that it could recognize and disrupt the operation of an opponent’s soul power. The chapter ended with a Papal Hall team carrying a Pope Token dispatched to Tiangou, where Qian Renxue had just assumed the regency.

• Lu Yuan showed Qian Daoliu the fully evolved Fate-Breaking Spear, whose former patterns had disappeared beneath its dark shaft.
• Qian Daoliu tested the spear with golden soul power, and Lu Yuan found that its first contact let it remember how Qian Daoliu’s power operated and redirect later attacks.
• Lu Yuan used the spear to disturb a weak connection within Qian Daoliu’s stronger attack, shifting part of its force aside despite being driven back and injured.
• Lu Yuan explained that the spear recognized the source of soul power, but changes in a soul skill’s operation could make its weak point difficult to find.
• A Worship Hall steward reported that the Papal Hall had sent a team to Tiangou carrying a Pope Token.

Qian Renxue refused Bibi Dong’s demand to return to Spirit City and issued a formal response as Tiangou’s regent, withholding information about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Lu Yuan’s Eye of Destiny revealed that a Destiny Node involving the sect was advancing, suggesting Bibi Dong was watching for something beyond the Palace Coup.

• A Spirit Hall envoy delivered Bibi Dong’s order for Qian Renxue to return to Spirit City and provide intelligence on Tiangou, including a separate report on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qian Renxue told the envoy she could not leave while Tiangou’s court and military were still transitioning, and refused to submit a separate report on the sect.
• Qian Renxue stamped her response with the Regency Seal and sent the envoy back to Spirit Hall with her refusal.
• Lu Yuan read the order and Qian Renxue’s reply, and they noted Bibi Dong’s special attention to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Lu Yuan’s Eye of Destiny showed the sect’s Destiny Node advancing, and he concluded that Bibi Dong was likely watching for something beyond the Palace Coup.

Lu Yuan used the Eye of Destiny’s warning that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be crippled in a Soul Hunting attack to help Ning Fengzhi prepare an ambush with Qian Renxue’s military support. After the sect strengthened its hidden defenses and the garrisons began repositioning, the Eye of Destiny announced that the attack’s execution phase had begun.

• Lu Yuan saw a Destiny Node predicting that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be crippled within seven days and warned Ning Fengzhi.
• Lu Yuan and Ning Fengzhi decided to keep the sect’s routine intact while secretly reinforcing its defenses and luring the attackers into a trap.
• Qian Renxue arranged routine garrison rotations to place Tiangou troops along the roads around the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Lu Yuan told Ning Fengzhi he would stay at the sect and fight, revealing his Fate-Breaking Spear.
• The sect moved direct disciples deeper inside while Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo continued appearing to be away from their posts.
• The Eye of Destiny announced that the Soul Hunting execution phase had begun.

Lu Yuan and Ning Fengzhi let Spirit Hall infiltrators enter the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect so they could be trapped inside. Once Lu Yuan spotted a dangerous group and the Eye of Destiny’s trajectory tightened, Ning Fengzhi ordered the sect to attack.

• Lu Yuan identified the silent removal of two Hidden Sentries as a cleared route and persuaded Ning Fengzhi to leave it open.
• Seven masked intruders entered; Lu Yuan killed three after recognizing one as a former Papal Hall guard and confirming their connection to Spirit Hall.
• A second wave entered while Lu Yuan waited for the Crown Prince's Residence relief forces to take position and assessed the incoming groups.
• Lu Yuan noticed a group whose presence tightened the Gray Trajectory in the Eye of Destiny and told Ning Fengzhi to close the trap.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed the sect’s hidden forces as Bone Douluo sealed the route back, the Seven Kill Sword appeared overhead, and Ning Fengzhi ordered the attack.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fought off a prepared assault as four Titled Douluos revealed themselves and the attackers launched a decapitation strike against Ning Fengzhi. Lu Yuan killed a Soul Douluo who tried to break through, but the fourth Titled Douluo reached Ning Fengzhi as his defenses began to fail.

• Ning Fengzhi enhanced Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo as they disrupted the attackers’ formation, while Bone Douluo sealed off their retreat route.
• Three enemy Titled Douluos revealed themselves and tied down Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, allowing the Soul Douluos to press the sect’s defenses.
• Lu Yuan used the Fate-Breaking Spear to disrupt a Soul Douluo’s attacks, wound him, and later kill him when he turned toward Ning Fengzhi.
• The attackers called for a decapitation strike, and their Soul Douluos redirected their assault toward Ning Fengzhi while three Titled Douluos held off his protectors.
• A fourth Titled Douluo revealed himself, slipped past the distracted defenders, and attacked Ning Fengzhi, whose barriers began to collapse.

Lu Yuan saved Ning Fengzhi from a Titled Douluo’s attack and used the Fate-Breaking Spear to disrupt the enemy’s movements as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fought off the Soul Hunting Squad. Ning Rongrong led the young disciples in defending the inner grounds, and the Tiandou Garrison’s arrival forced the attackers to retreat, but the [Sect Devastation] trajectory began to reappear.

• Lu Yuan diverted a Titled Douluo’s strike by an inch, saving Ning Fengzhi, then used the Fate-Breaking Spear and Ning Fengzhi’s boosts to disrupt the attacker’s next charge.
• Several Soul Douluo turned toward the sect’s inner grounds, where Ning Rongrong organized the young disciples into a formation that trapped the attackers.
• The Eye of Destiny showed Ning Rongrong’s original trajectory had deviated because she was present and fighting in the sect.
• The Tiandou Garrison arrived as Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo pressed the Titled Douluo back, prompting the Soul Hunting Squad to retreat.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the sect’s experts to keep the attackers there, and Lu Yuan saw the fading [Sect Devastation] words grow clear again.

Lu Yuan disrupted Spirit Hall’s final ambush, helping Sword Douluo kill one Titled Douluo and sever another’s right arm before the attackers were driven from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After the battle, the Eye of Destiny showed that the predetermined outcome of Sect Devastation had been rewritten.

• Lu Yuan used Shadow Pursuit and his spear skills to disrupt the Speed-Type Titled Douluo’s attack on Sword Douluo, leaving Sword Douluo time to kill the gravely wounded Titled Douluo.
• Sword Douluo turned and severed the Speed-Type Titled Douluo’s right arm, while the Long-Handled Battle Blade Titled Douluo withdrew.
• Bone Douluo blocked the main exits as Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi pressed Spirit Hall’s forces, forcing the remaining attackers to retreat under pressure from the Tiandou Garrison.
• At dawn, Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, Sword Douluo, and Ning Rongrong remained alive despite the sect’s damage and casualties.
• Lu Yuan saw the Gray Text for the predetermined outcome, Sect Devastation, shatter and change to Rewritten.

After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect survived Spirit Hall’s attack, Lu Yuan discovered that his Fate-Breaking Spear had completed its seventh evolution and gained a mark preserving changed destinies. The Eye of Destiny then revealed Spirit Hall’s next target, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and a three-day intervention window.

• Lu Yuan surveyed the sect’s damage and injuries, and Ning Rongrong bandaged his wounded hand and thanked him for defending the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi told Lu Yuan that more than a hundred people were wounded and acknowledged that the sect owed him its survival.
• The Origin of Destiny gave Lu Yuan’s spear its first permanent Fate Mark, recording Ning Rongrong’s altered fate after the Soul Hunting incident.
• The Eye of Destiny revealed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as a linked node, named Yu Yuanzhen as a key figure, and showed an intervention window of three days.
• Lu Yuan told Ning Rongrong that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had three days left.

Lu Yuan uncovered Spirit Hall’s simultaneous operation against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and pursued a lone messenger carrying orders for the northern squads. After intercepting him, Lu Yuan learned the intervention window had shrunk from three days to two and raced north.

• Ning Fengzhi warned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and sent Lu Yuan records and a message through the sect’s channels.
• Qian Renxue granted Lu Yuan temporary access to northern military relay station records, where he found Spirit Masters traveling north and pursued the lone traveler moving fastest.
• Lu Yuan ambushed and subdued the traveler, finding a note that named Dragonspine Pass, a meeting between seven and nine that evening, and the arrival of the second squad.
• Lu Yuan sent the intercepted orders and route information to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Heaven Dou City.
• The Eye of Destiny shortened the intervention window to two days, and Lu Yuan continued north while at least one Spirit Hall group was already ahead of him.

Lu Yuan diverted Spirit Hall’s second squad into the Old Mining District by using one of their own Signal Flares, buying time for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. The Eye of Destiny showed that the main threat to Yu Yuanzhen remained on course, so Lu Yuan rode north to pursue it.

• Lu Yuan learned that the second squad was expected at Dragonridge Pass and identified the northwestern road as the hardest route back to the main road.
• Lu Yuan used a gray Signal Flare to make the second squad believe its orders had changed and send it into the Old Mining District.
• Lu Yuan told a Seven Treasure disciple to destroy the quickest routes back and report to Seven Treasure and Tiangou, then continued north.
• The Eye of Destiny showed that the second squad had veered away but that the threat to Yu Yuanzhen remained unchanged and the intervention window stayed at two days.
• Lu Yuan rode north after realizing the force threatening the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had already passed Dragonridge Pass.

Lu Yuan reached the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting Squad began attacking its perimeter, and he warned Yu Yuanzhen that the enemy intended to kill him. Yu Yuanzhen led his fighters toward Thunderclap Valley to draw the attackers into terrain of their choosing, as Lu Yuan’s vision revealed that the valley was where Yu Yuanzhen’s fate was converging.

• Lu Yuan rescued three Blue Lightning disciples from an ambush and learned that the Southeastern Thunder Signal Point had been attacked.
• Lu Yuan showed Yu Yuanzhen the intercepted secret orders and explained the approaching squads and the attack on Seven Treasure.
• Lu Yuan’s Eye of Destiny revealed that the Soul Hunting Squad had entered its execution phase and marked Yu Yuanzhen for decapitation.
• Lu Yuan proposed drawing the attackers into Thunderclap Valley, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered the clan to evacuate vulnerable members and abandon untenable perimeter posts.
• After more thunder signal points went dark, Yu Yuanzhen led his fighters out to meet the enemy, and Lu Yuan’s vision confirmed Thunderclap Valley as the converging location of Yu Yuanzhen’s fate.

Lu Yuan and Yu Yuanzhen entered Thunder Valley despite discovering Spirit Hall’s prepared ambush, then turned the blockade against its attackers and disrupted their warning signals. Three powerful figures surrounded them, and the Eye of Destiny revealed Yu Yuanzhen’s original death but showed his current outcome as undetermined.

• Lu Yuan and Yu Yuanzhen found signs that Spirit Hall had rigged Thunder Valley and chose to enter rather than let the attackers relocate their trap.
• Lu Yuan arranged for Blue Lightning elders to flank the entrance while Yu Yuanzhen waited in the valley’s central clearing.
• Spirit Hall’s squad collapsed the entrance and blocked the other passage, but Blue Lightning’s elders ambushed them from the slopes.
• Lu Yuan broke the gray-clad man’s second Signal Flare and helped divert a Soul Douluo into a Blue Lightning elder’s attack.
• Three powerful figures took positions around Yu Yuanzhen, and Lu Yuan’s Eye of Destiny showed Yu Yuanzhen’s original ending as killed in battle but his current outcome as undetermined.

Lu Yuan disrupted the three Titled Douluos’ coordinated attack on Yu Yuanzhen, helping him wound the black-blade wielder and break their formation. Lu Yuan then drew the black-chain wielder far across Thunder Valley and delayed his return, leaving Yu Yuanzhen poised to finish the wounded enemy while the rhinoceros wielder rushed to intervene.

• The giant rhinoceros and black-chain Titled Douluos pinned Yu Yuanzhen in place while the black-blade wielder struck from behind, and Lu Yuan identified their coordinated strategy.
• Lu Yuan disrupted the black chains with Shock Edge, creating openings for Yu Yuanzhen, and used the Fate-Breaking Spear to learn the enemies’ Soul Power patterns.
• When the three Titled Douluos unleashed their killing attack, Lu Yuan used Two Polarities Reversal to disrupt the chain net, allowing Yu Yuanzhen to strike the black-blade wielder and break the formation.
• The black-chain Titled Douluo pursued Lu Yuan across Thunder Valley while Yu Yuanzhen kept attacking the wounded black-blade wielder and forced the rhinoceros wielder to defend him.
• Lu Yuan slowed the black-chain wielder’s return by disrupting the Soul Power in the chain, while Yu Yuanzhen caught the wounded black-blade wielder and the rhinoceros wielder rushed to intervene.

Yu Yuanzhen and Lu Yuan defeated Spirit Hall’s three Titled Douluo in Thunder Valley, killing Black Blade while Black Chain and Giant Rhino escaped. As Yu Yuanzhen prepared to return to the clan, the delayed second squad from Dragonridge Pass arrived, and he confronted them.

• Yu Yuanzhen outmaneuvered Giant Rhino and struck down Black Blade, while Lu Yuan disrupted Black Chain’s attempt to restore the chain formation.
• Lu Yuan interfered with Black Chain’s effort to clear the valley entrance, narrowing the exit and helping the two Blue Lightning elders confront the fleeing attackers.
• Black Chain and Giant Rhino broke through the rocks and escaped, while Yu Yuanzhen chose not to pursue them and declared, “Three came, two left.”
• The delayed second squad from Dragonridge Pass arrived, unaware that the decapitation strike had failed, and Yu Yuanzhen challenged their leader as the lightning returned to his bloodied hand.

Lu Yuan and Yu Yuanzhen defeated the second squad sent to support the soul-hunting operation, then returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and helped rout the attackers. Yu Yuanzhen survived the assault, rewriting the clan’s fate, while the Eye of Destiny revealed a new turning point involving Qian Renxue and Xue Ye.

• Lu Yuan stopped the second squad from signaling for help, and Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning elders defeated its members and captured the injured leader.
• Lu Yuan read the squad’s secret order, which showed that it was meant to secure the northern retreat route and eliminate witnesses.
• Yu Yuanzhen returned to the Mountain Gate with Black Blade’s corpse, renewing the Blue Lightning defenders’ resolve.
• Yu Yuanzhen led the counterattack as Lu Yuan disrupted the Soul Hunting Squad’s attempts to regroup, forcing the attackers to scatter and retreat.
• The Eye of Destiny recorded that Yu Yuanzhen had survived and the soul-hunting node had been rewritten, granting Lu Yuan a second permanent fate mark.
• The Eye of Destiny revealed a new key turning point: Xue Ye, linked to Qian Renxue’s Imperial Throne node.

Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue met with Xue Ye after attacks on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Qian Renxue laid out a plan to investigate the attackers. Xue Ye expanded her authority to command regional troops, but kept the unfinished succession edict from her until she proved she could shoulder Tiangou’s affairs.

• Lu Yuan told Qian Renxue that Yu Yuanzhen had survived the attack and showed her secret orders bearing a Spirit Hall operational seal, though they could not prove the attackers’ origin publicly.
• Lu Yuan warned Qian Renxue that Xue Ye’s death so soon after the attacks would cast suspicion on her, and Xue Ye summoned them to his bedchamber.
• Qian Renxue admitted to Xue Ye that the attack was Spirit Hall’s doing and proposed moving garrisons, aiding the sects, and investigating the attackers while withholding evidence until it could be corroborated.
• Xue Ye issued an edict allowing Qian Renxue, as regent, to mobilize regional garrisons and forces under the imperial family in a crisis.
• Xue Ye showed Qian Renxue an unfinished succession edict, but told her it was not hers yet and that she must first settle the sects’ affairs and shoulder Tiangou’s burden.

Qian Renxue used her newly expanded authority as Tiangou’s regent Crown Prince to investigate the attacks on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, uncovering evidence linking the attackers’ supply network and routes. She formally asked Spirit Hall to help identify the involved Titled Douluos, and Bibi Dong received the request in Spirit City.

• Qian Renxue ordered regional garrisons and military officials to investigate the roads and transport routes used by the attackers, then asked Spirit Hall’s branch halls to report recent transfers of high-ranking Spirit Masters.
• Qian Renxue gave a cardinal a dossier on a Titled Douluo who had died in Thunderclap Valley and asked Spirit Hall to identify him, giving the cardinal seven days.
• A captured member of the second team revealed three supply points, and Qian Renxue ordered garrisons to seize them simultaneously.
• Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue examined evidence from the seized warehouse, including route maps marking the two sects and Dragonridge Pass, and found it matched the prisoners’ confession and secret order.
• Qian Renxue sent Spirit Hall a formal request bearing the Regency Seal to help identify the attackers and confirm records of high-ranking Spirit Masters entering Tiangou.
• Bibi Dong read the official letter in the Papal Hall and lingered over the request and the Regency Seal.

Qian Renxue used Bibi Dong’s denial of Spirit Hall involvement to order Spirit Hall Branches across Tiangou to help track the two Titled Douluo who attacked Seven Treasures and Blue Lightning. After the fugitives were refused shelter and ordered to hide, Black Lock questioned whether Spirit Hall still acknowledged them.

• Qian Renxue issued wanted notices for Black Lock and Giant Rhinoceros, offering rewards for information and promising leniency to anyone who surrendered and revealed the soul hunting operation.
• Qian Renxue required every Spirit Hall Branch in Tiangou to report the fugitives’ movements, and the red-robed bishop ordered the notices posted outside the Heaven Dou City sanctuary.
• Ning Fengzhi sent enemy details and suspicious supply points, while Yu Yuanzhen confirmed the portraits of Black Lock and Giant Rhinoceros.
• Black Lock and Giant Rhinoceros sought help at a Spirit Hall Branch, but were refused entry and found their wanted notices posted outside.
• A message from Spirit City ordered the pair to conceal themselves and avoid Branch Halls, prompting Giant Rhinoceros to question their abandonment and Black Lock to ask whether Spirit Hall still acknowledged them.

Lu Yuan captured a Soul Hunting Operation safehouse and used its records to help Qian Renxue dismantle more evacuation routes, while Bibi Dong ordered the surviving operatives hunted. After Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen joined Tiangou’s investigation, Xue Ye granted Qian Renxue direct authority over urgent affairs and named her successor, advancing the Imperial Throne node to its final stage.

• Lu Yuan followed a coded message to East Ridge Old Manor, captured its Soul Saint leader, and recovered evacuation records from beneath a dry well.
• Qian Renxue ordered three locations from the records raided, and Tiangou forces captured more Soul Hunting operatives and a matching codebook.
• Bibi Dong learned that East Ridge Old Manor had fallen and ordered the two surviving Titled operatives found, but not brought back.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen arrived in Tiangou and pledged their sects’ routes, records, survivors, and testimony to the investigation.
• Qian Renxue said Tiangou would handle any proven Spirit Hall involvement according to its laws, and Xue Ye granted her direct authority over urgent military and governmental affairs.
• Xue Ye completed the succession edict in Qian Renxue’s name, and Lu Yuan’s Eye of Destiny showed the Imperial Throne node entering its final stage.