Recaps

Yang Qing and his companions escaped Northern Liang, became entangled in the Western Regions princes’ rivalry, and followed clues to the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom. After the supposed ruins led them into a deadly maze, they reached a sacrificial passage where an illusion threatened to trap them.

• Yang Qing and his companions opened the ancient stone door with Bu Er’s blood, crossed the Dragon Vein’s formations, and found a broken stele before Duan Tianyu attacked them.
• Jiang Zhizhou, Yang Qing, Pei Buji, and Bu Er escaped Duan Tianyu through a hidden passage and fled west with Fen Liyou’s caravan.
• At Jade Gate Pass, Xiao Shen imprisoned Fen Liyou and his companions, but Ouyang Lin took Yang Qing and the others to Mo Yi.
• Yang Qing accepted Mo Yi’s support to investigate the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom, then uncovered a hidden residence containing a map of possible sites.
• Yang Qing and Pei Buji leaked the route to Sunset Glow Valley to Mo Ze, bringing both princes’ forces onto the dangerous Shadowless Slope expedition.
• Yang Qing’s group crossed the slope amid venomous insects and fighting soldiers, then entered an underground passage after Jiang Zhizhou broke a marked boulder.
• The companions realized the supposed ruins were a trap connected to the ancient kingdom and navigated passages rigged with poison-coated needles.
• Yang Qing recognized a sacrificial site and the Three-Lives Stone, broke free of a slaughter illusion, and led his companions past the stone as it blocked the encroaching mist.

Yang Qing and his companions escaped Sunset Glow Slope, reunited with Pei Buji, and followed Fen Liyou and Yin Xian into the Four-Square Land. They reached the underground shrine, where Yin Xian searched for a hidden object and Yang Qing learned a second volume of the Parchment Scroll might be there.

• Yang Qing, Jiang Zhizhou, and Bu Er descended into the cavern after Pei Buji fell, discovered the moving platforms and sacrificial site, then escaped Sunset Glow Slope with Yang Qing gravely ill.
• Jiang Zhizhou and Bu Er restored Yang Qing’s condition with the Origin-Returning Divine Art, and they reunited with Ouyang Lin in You City before agreeing to travel to Urn City.
• Yang Qing recognized the Shadow Jade at the Treasure-Displaying Festival, and Fen Liyou revealed his family’s ancestral ties to the Yang household and invited the group to stay with him.
• Yang Qing’s party learned that the Four-Square Land was sealed within Urn City, reunited with Pei Buji, and accepted Yin Xian’s help despite Yang Qing’s suspicion of him.
• Yin Xian led Yang Qing, Jiang Zhizhou, Bu Er, and Fen Liyou into the Four-Square Land, where the Dream Demon attacked and Yin Xian fled into the forest.
• The group followed the wounded Dream Demon Snake into the Underground Palace and met Yin Xian in the Underground City, where he claimed the Four-Square Land was also the Yin family’s Ancestral Grounds.
• Yang Qing’s party entered the Four-Square Shrine and found spirit tablets that some of them could read, while Yin Xian searched the candlesticks and then broke open a floor tile.
• Yin Xian said a second volume of the Parchment Scroll concerning Emperor Zetian might be hidden in the Ancestral Shrine, while insisting he was also seeking another object.

Yang Qing and his companions uncovered Emperor Zetian’s fate-changing scheme, then helped thwart Yin Xian’s bid for power and rescued the Yijiang Saintess. At Azure Cloud Fortress, a poisoning plot linked to Heavenly Fragrance threatened the gathered heroes, leaving Yang Qing to seek a meeting with the Holy Maiden.

• Yang Qing found an ancient key in the Four-Square Shrine, then helped stop Yin Xian’s blood-draining formation by breaking the gravestone linked to the Fate-Reversing Array.
• Yang Qing used the key to enter the Library Pavilion, where he learned Emperor Zetian had planned to choose a successor, and the group later searched an underground city before returning to Urn City.
• After Yin Xian obtained the Imperial Heirloom Seal and besieged Urn City, Yang Qing persuaded Mo Yi to send troops, but the Western Regions army defeated Yin Xian’s forces and he leapt from a cliff.
• Yang Qing’s companions rescued Mo Beixing, the Yijiang Saintess, from assassins and later helped her reach the road to Azure Cloud Fortress.
• At Azure Cloud Fortress, Yang Qing’s group saved Sun Wu from poison, and Sun Wu identified the toxin as Heavenly Fragrance, the same poison that had killed his father.
• Yang Qing and his companions headed for the Mu Family Residence to investigate the poisoning, then planned to have Sun Wu and Ouyang Lin search for the culprit by scent.
• Yang Qing stopped Bu Er from contacting the Holy Maiden, judged that the Three Great Schools’ quarters would be dangerous to investigate, and concluded that meeting the Holy Maiden was their safest option.

Yang Qing uncovered the Mu Family’s schemes, escaped Azure Cloud Fortress as Qiongqi appeared, and set out with his companions for the Ultimate Land. Their journey brought them to the Hard Tribe, where they entered a tense situation around the Heavenly God Selection and Moon-Praying Ceremony.

• Yang Qing learned that Mu Hailin had used Heavenly Fragrance Poison, then thwarted him and helped Mo Beixing and the Grand Protector escape the Mu Family Residence.
• Yang Qing and his companions investigated the Kirin Blood, discovered Mu Haiyun had deceived the martial world, and identified the strange arena phenomenon as an Evil Spirit Array.
• Mu Haiyun’s forces trapped Yang Qing’s group in the city, and Fen Liyou died shielding Yang Qing as they fought their way toward the gate.
• Mu Haiyun summoned the Sacred Spirit through the Evil Spirit Array, but Yang Qing and his companions escaped Azure Cloud Fortress and saw Qiongqi emerge above the Mu Family Residence.
• Yang Qing explained that the Remnant Book pointed to Emperor Zetian’s Resting Place and that Rootless Wood there could counter Fierce Beasts, then led the group toward the Ultimate Land.
• Yang Qing and his companions crossed the corrosive sludge of Heaven’s Divide Mountain and continued through a miasma-filled forest until Hardway and the Hard Tribe confronted them.
• Hardway brought Yang Qing’s group to the tribe’s treehouse village and explained that they must undergo the Heavenly God Selection or risk war and lose their guide through the forest.
• Yang Qing agreed to join the Moon-Praying Ceremony to learn what the tribe’s factions intended, and Bu Er reported finding a mass burial pit in the forest.