Recaps

Lu Yuan used the Eye of Destiny to avert deaths during his first spirit hunt and earned a place in Spirit City’s youth training program. After the Qingshi Valley mission changed his spear and brought him into contact with a sealed weapon, he began tougher training while learning that Qian Renxue would eventually leave Spirit City.

• Lu Yuan awakened his Dark Iron Spear with innate level ten spirit power, saw Lin Yue’s fate predict his death in the Black Stone Forest, and arranged to join his spirit hunt.
• Lu Yuan warned Lin Yue about a Wind-Rending Leopard’s ambush, changed Lin Yue’s fate, and earned the Spirit City recommendation after defeating Shen Chuan.
• Lu Yuan passed the Spirit City selection trials, joined the Elder Hall Youth Special Training roster, and began training with Qian Renxue.
• Lu Yuan joined Qian Renxue’s patrol to Qingshi Valley, where he helped defeat a Man-Faced Demon Spider and prevented Han Yue’s death while Qian Renxue was poisoned.
• Lu Yuan’s Dark Iron Spear evolved into the Piercing Spear, and Qian Daoliu granted him additional training privileges while forbidding him from approaching the sealed black Iron Door before reaching level thirty.
• Lu Yuan found an Unknown Spear Blank Fragment in the outer treasury, and the fragment and sealed spear behind the door responded to his Piercing Spear.
• Lu Yuan began real combat training, sparred with Qian Renxue, and faced tougher opponents after the trainees’ stage assessment.
• Qian Daoliu set Lu Yuan a level-fourteen goal and told him that Qian Renxue would eventually leave Spirit City for Tiangou.

Lu Yuan grew stronger, earned his second Spirit Ring, and traveled to Tiangou to assist Qian Renxue in her Xue Qinghe identity. After a staged Spirit Beast attack at the Royal Hunting Grounds exposed an attempt to watch her contacts, Lu Yuan claimed Gray Silver Ore from the Royal Treasury.

• Lu Yuan advanced to Rank 14, learned Qian Renxue would leave for Tiangou, and saw her fate display identify her as Xue Qinghe entering a latent period.
• Lu Yuan trained in the Soul Hunting Area with Shao Ping, helped save him from an Iron-Backed Jackal Leader, and gained Origin of Destiny when Shao Ping’s serious-injury fate node disappeared.
• Lu Yuan reached Level 20, chose the injured Quake-Armor Beast for his Spirit Ring, killed it, and gained Shock Edge from its 720-year ring.
• Lu Yuan defeated Xu Heng with Shock Edge, then traveled with Han Lie’s team toward Heaven Dou City and captured two caravan robbers along the way.
• Lu Yuan met Qian Renxue secretly in Tiangou, defeated Gu Yan and Qin Yue at the Royal Academy exchange, and learned that Cheng Lan was watching Xue Qinghe for Prince Xue Xing’s residence.
• Lu Yuan joined Qin Yue and Lin Che in the Royal Hunting Grounds assessment, where they collected tokens and helped rescue students as a wounded Rift-Toothed Tiger attacked.
• Lu Yuan killed the tiger and helped capture Han Song, who confessed that an unknown person had arranged the attack and ordered him to watch anyone near Xue Qinghe.
• Lu Yuan saw Qian Renxue’s fate node shift and gained a small amount of Origin of Destiny, then chose Gray Silver Ore from the Royal Treasury because his Piercing Spear resonated with it.

Lu Yuan’s spear evolved through several rare materials and the Origin of Destiny while he helped Qian Renxue secure the Crown Prince position and assisted Ning Rongrong and Dugu Bo. Five years later, Qian Renxue rejected Spirit Hall’s order to keep waiting and began planning a palace coup with Lu Yuan.

• Lu Yuan evolved his Mountain-Shaking Spear into the Abyss-Sinking Spear by fusing it with the awakened Unknown Spear Core, then tested its force-absorbing trait against Du Heng.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted Xue Qinghe as his student, and Lu Yuan later helped Xue Qinghe revise the Royal Academy’s resource rules while Ning Rongrong earned a reserve place through her own performance.
• Lu Yuan evolved the spear into the Sea-Sealing Spear with Tide-Sealing Stone Marrow, then recovered diverted military supplies and an intercepted report that helped Xue Qinghe become Crown Prince.
• Lu Yuan fused Vein-Severing Dark Gold into the Sea-Sealing Spear, evolving it into the Tidebreaker Spear, and Ning Rongrong told him she had met Tang San at Shrek Academy but chosen not to enroll.
• Lu Yuan warned Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about their accumulated poison, gained access to Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden, and evolved the Tidebreaker Spear into the Return-to-Ruin Spear at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Lu Yuan gave Qian Renxue the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, which strengthened her body and meridians as she refined its power.
• Five years later, Qian Renxue rejected Spirit Hall’s instruction to keep waiting, and she and Lu Yuan planned a palace coup, dividing the palace and outside forces between them.

Lu Yuan helped Qian Renxue seize control of Tiangou and rewrite the fates of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after Spirit Hall’s attacks. As Qian Renxue investigated Spirit Hall’s involvement and gained Xue Ye’s trust, the succession edict in her name brought her Imperial Throne node to its final stage.

• Qian Renxue revealed herself to Xue Ye and took control of the palace while Lu Yuan blocked the direct knights and destroyed the Crimson-Gold Imperial Edict that could have rallied reinforcements.
• Xue Ye issued a Regency Edict, Qian Renxue took power as regent, and Lu Yuan’s Fate-Breaking Spear completed its seventh evolution after their destiny paths linked.
• Lu Yuan warned Ning Fengzhi of the impending attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and helped its defenders defeat Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting Squad, rewriting the sect’s fate and Ning Rongrong’s trajectory.
• Lu Yuan followed Spirit Hall’s orders north and helped Yu Yuanzhen defeat the attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, saving Yu Yuanzhen and earning a second permanent fate mark.
• Xue Ye authorized Qian Renxue to mobilize regional forces, and she investigated the attacks, seized supply points, and issued wanted notices for Black Lock and Giant Rhinoceros.
• Lu Yuan captured the leader at East Ridge Old Manor and recovered records that led Qian Renxue’s forces to capture more Soul Hunting operatives, while Bibi Dong ordered the surviving Titled operatives found but not brought back.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen pledged their sects’ evidence and support to Qian Renxue’s investigation, and Xue Ye completed a succession edict in her name as the Imperial Throne node entered its final stage.