Recaps

Yang Qing and his companions uncovered the Hard Tribe’s blood sacrifices, escaped the cursed forest, and found signs that their journey was being arranged around Yang Qing. The arc ended as Yang Qing approached the Sacrificial Temple and its door began to open for him.

• Yang Qing’s group discovered that the Hard Tribe used blood sacrifices to stave off a curse, but Hardway escaped by drawing power from the Blood Pool.
• Yang Qing’s companions found Ouyang Lin bound to a Sacrificial Tree, rescued him, and escaped the forest as it collapsed and revived.
• Yang Qing led the group out of the forest, concluding that the Eternal Gaze had repeatedly revived and sacrificed the Hard Tribe.
• Jiangli led Yang Qing to ruins where a portrait burned away, leaving a Bone Jade Thumb Ring marked with the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom emblem and an Imperial Scepter.
• The ruins vanished by dawn, and Yang Qing told his companions he feared the dangers on their journey were directed at him.
• After crossing the desert, Yang Qing’s group encountered villagers who feared those emerging from the Demon Domain and learned of a mysterious Sacrificial Temple.
• The village chief described a tradition that the temple would open for the Fated One, and Yang Qing approached its entrance as it began to open while Jiang Zhizhou could not get near.

Yang Qing and his companions pursued the mysterious portraits, rescued Mo Beixing from the Lin Family, and encountered followers seeking to restore the Sacred Emperor’s age. After Pei Buji died destroying their Hidden Chamber, the group exposed a false Master Lin and continued toward the Imperial Capital to find Miss Lin.

• Yang Qing escaped the villagers’ poisoning and arson attempt with his companions and decided to investigate the recurring portraits.
• Yang Qing and his companions traced Mo Beixing’s abduction to the Lin Family and rescued her at the Ancestral Grounds after Master Lin sought her help pursuing his ambitions and the Longevity Formula.
• Yang Qing followed a portrait lead to the City of Eternal Night, where a mysterious man tried to draw him toward Chasing Wind and the Inkcloud Armor.
• Pei Buji swallowed the Mind-Cleansing Pills, invoked the blood taboo with Yang Qing’s blood, and died destroying the Hidden Chamber after the group refused to serve the Sacred Emperor.
• Yang Qing led his companions into the swamp, where they killed a giant snake and discovered the real Master Lin’s corpse inside it.
• Bu Er and Jiang Zhizhou found the false Master Lin among mountain bandits whose stronghold concealed an Underground City filled with well-equipped soldiers.
• Yang Qing confronted the false Master Lin about the misleading Terrain Map, and Ouyang Lin disrupted his Laughing Sound Art before Jiang Zhizhou and Bu Er removed his disguise.
• Yang Qing questioned the impostor about the Twelve Holy Envoys before he died, then resolved to find Miss Lin in the Imperial Capital and concluded that the envoys’ descendants intended to defy heaven.

Yang Qing followed clues tied to the Twelve Holy Envoys and the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom, eventually forcing Qian Tong to take the group to Immortal Island. After surviving the sea beasts’ Dragon-Trapping Formation and confronting his family’s burning in his vision, Yang Qing reached the island and began searching for Rootless Wood.

• Yang Qing and his companions learned that the departed villagers had died from Death Gu, and Ouyang Lin identified the red thread in Yang Qing’s hand as a Soul-Severing Gu that could trap him in an illusion.
• Yang Qing’s group escaped the Imperial Capital with Mu Feng, then traveled east to seek Rootless Wood and questioned Luo Dahai about Immortal Island.
• At the Si Household, Yang Qing found ancient designs linked to the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom and learned that the Si and Qian Households shared ties to the Twelve Holy Envoys.
• Qian Zhi trapped Yang Qing and Si Yifan in the Qian Household Water Prison, but Yang Qing studied the shifting formation and guided their group to its exit.
• Qian Tong tried to seize the sacred relic and revealed that his household’s ancient treasures came from an abandoned ship, where Yang Qing found a second Bone Jade Thumb Ring marked with an eight.
• Yang Qing forced Qian Tong to lead the voyage to Immortal Island, but Qian Tong died when a gecko-shaped sea beast attacked the ship.
• Yang Qing was caught in a vision of the fire that killed the Yang Family, but Bu Er reached him, helped him wake, and fought alongside the others until they broke the Dragon-Trapping Formation.
• Yang Qing’s group landed on Immortal Island and found no people, then followed Jiangli to a mound that Bu Er was about to open.

Yang Qing’s search for the Rootless Wood led him into Punishment Valley, where he uncovered the legacy of the Twelve Holy Envoys and received the Formless from Wuming. After learning that Immortal Island concealed a purpose tied to Emperor Zetian, Yang Qing joined Du Yongquan and Lin Zhong to investigate the strange light from Mo Beixing’s residence.

• Yang Qing and his companions entered Immortal Island’s ruins, found the Rootless Wood in the Skyfall Pit, and learned that Mo Beixing had been trying to obtain it for the island’s remnants.
• The Bone Jade Thumb Ring and Rootless Wood caused Lin Zhong to vanish, prompting Du Yongquan to explain Emperor Zetian’s Twelve Holy Envoys, their tokens, and the danger of Punishment Valley.
• Mo Beixing brought Yang Qing and the others into Punishment Valley and urged him to seek the Holy Lord’s recognition, but Yang Qing refused to submit to the statue.
• Wuming emerged from behind the statue, demanded the Rootless Wood and Signet Ring, and Yang Qing deduced that he had used the statue and Mo Beixing to pursue rebirth.
• Wuming led Yang Qing’s group through treasure-filled chambers, then trapped them, and the Rootless Wood chose Yang Qing and opened their way out, after which Wuming gave him Formless.
• Du Yongquan explained that Full Moon Night offered no reliable escape from the island and revealed that its true purpose had enraged Emperor Zetian, while only the Holy Duke might know its greatest secret.
• Yang Qing agreed to explore the island’s hidden places, then learned from Du Yongquan and Lin Zhong that strange light came from Mo Beixing’s room on Full Moon Nights.
• Yang Qing agreed to investigate Mo Beixing’s residence but told the others not to touch anything there, and Du Yongquan led them toward it.