Recaps

Yang Qing and his companions escaped Immortal Island, learned of Si Yifan’s death, and tracked a series of killings to Qiongqi. After defeating the beast at Mo Family Manor, they left Mo Yi in Mo Chong’s care and set out to find the remaining Holy Envoys.

• Yang Qing and his companions uncovered the hidden courtyard and Ancestral Shrine on Immortal Island, where a fiery trial transformed Yang Qing’s body before they found a cavern of coffins and an empty lotus-shaped platform.
• The Sacred Emperor’s Envoy took Yang Qing’s group off Immortal Island, and they reached Shaoyu City, where they learned Si Yifan had died and began investigating the household massacres.
• Yang Qing recognized the killings as Qiongqi’s work and warned Mo Chong that the beast would target his righteous household, so Mo Chong evacuated his family while staying behind to draw Qiongqi in.
• Qiongqi attacked Mo Chong beneath the midnight rain, but Yang Qing used his bloodstained Bone Jade Thumb Ring and Jiangli’s Strange Tree to draw the beast out of him.
• The Rootless Wood absorbed Qiongqi’s black mist, and Qiongqi emerged as a powerless infant whom Mo Chong named Mo Yi and agreed to raise.
• The Rootless Wood revived and became a hairpin in Yang Qing’s hair, and Yang Qing gave Mo Chong protective items for Mo Yi before leaving Shaoyu City with his companions to seek the remaining Holy Envoys.

Yang Qing’s group followed the trail of the Twelve Holy Envoys from Heavenly Luo City to Mu Feng’s family in Xiangyang, where Jiangli died and Qin Yue joined them. Their search led to a confrontation over the Rootless Wood and Bone Jade Thumb Ring, leaving Yang Qing convinced that both relics and his life were tied to the Sacred Emperor.

• Yang Qing and his companions were taken to the second Heavenly Luo City, where a mysterious man revealed that he had been directing their search and killed Jiangli when they tried to save it.
• After burying Jiangli, Yang Qing and the group followed a clue to Xiangyang City, where Mu Feng revealed that Chen Zhilan had stolen his Holy Envoy position and token.
• Mu Feng confronted the Chen Household, but the mysterious man stole Chen Zhilan’s token, while Qin Yue shattered Mu Feng’s Jade Pendant and challenged the group.
• Yang Qing used the Rootless Wood to stop Qin Yue’s attack, and Qin Yue later agreed to travel with the group under conditions of secrecy and nonparticipation.
• Qin Yue explained that the Twelve Holy Envoys had reappeared over the past two years and named tokens still missing from several households, prompting Yang Qing to continue the search.
• Two men lured Yang Qing and his companions to a courtyard using Lin Zhong as leverage, then demanded the Rootless Wood and Bone Jade Thumb Ring.
• Yang Qing refused to surrender the relics despite the men holding Lin Zhong and Du Yongquan hostage, and the men released Lin Zhong when they realized killing the hostages would not secure the items.
• Yang Qing concluded that the Rootless Wood, Bone Jade Thumb Ring, and his life were connected to the Sacred Emperor, startling Bu Er and the others.

Yang Qing uncovered the Immortality Art recorded on a Heavenly Stone, then followed the trail of the Holy Envoy Tokens into Eastern Splendor’s schemes. After Qin Yue was absorbed by the Rootless Wood and Yang Qing faced visions of his past, a mysterious man sent the group back into the desert without explaining the truth.

• Yang Qing entered Fated Mountain with Mu Feng and the others, broke open the Primordial Emperor’s Heavenly Stone, and absorbed its records of the Immortality Art.
• Yang Qing and his companions concluded that Emperor Zetian’s tokens might be connected to a plan to return from the dead, and they set out to find the missing tokens.
• The Eastern Splendor Envoy injured Qin Yue, but Yang Qing used the Rootless Wood to heal him, prompting Qin Yue to join the group.
• Shen Yun confronted Yang Qing for the Rootless Wood, lost an arm to it, then led the group to the Shen Family residence and revealed three tokens.
• Shen Yun’s seals transported the group to a mountain, where he opened a stone gate with Yang Qing’s blood and began a ritual involving the Rootless Wood and other relics.
• Qin Yue vanished into a whirlwind and was absorbed by the Rootless Wood, which then formed a flower path that led Yang Qing and the others into visions of Yang Qing’s childhood and the Yang Family massacre.
• A masked man explained that the group had walked the Soul-Guiding Path, then brought them before a man on a Golden Throne, and Yang Qing resisted the man’s influence and demanded the truth.
• The Golden Throne man sent Yang Qing and his companions into the desert, where Yang Qing found them and led them onward together.

Yang Qing and his companions endured Ouyang Lin’s death and followed a hidden route into Upside-Down City, where they learned the Rootless Wood and Yang Qing’s blood were needed to rescue a prophesied person from the Imperial Mausoleum. Yang Qing accepted the mission to uncover the truth, and Yun Niang led the group toward the Lower Imperial Mausoleum.

• Ji Shan confronted Yang Qing in the Sand Sea, revealed he had saved Yang Qing’s life and slaughtered his family, then returned Yang Qing and his companions to their courtyard after their formation and Rootless Wood blood wounded him.
• Yang Qing learned the Shen Family had fled and suspected Shen Yun had caused Qin Yue’s death, then decided to leave Xiangyang City with his companions.
• The residents of Xiangyang City announced that the Imperial Mausoleum had emerged, but an unseen attacker killed Ouyang Lin and gravely injured Jiang Zhizhou.
• Yang Qing and his companions performed Ouyang Lin’s funeral rites, and Jiang Zhizhou and Mu Feng swore allegiance to Yang Qing as the Rootless Wood healed Jiang Zhizhou.
• Yang Qing’s group followed hidden paths through the mountains, crossed a bridge of light, and entered Upside-Down City, where Yun Niang gave Yang Qing the Bone Jade Thumb Ring and explained the city’s purpose.
• Gongsun Ru and Yun Niang told Yang Qing that the prophesied person was trapped in the Imperial Mausoleum and that rescuing them required the Rootless Wood, the Bone Jade Thumb Ring, and Yang Qing’s blood.
• Yang Qing agreed to enter the Lower Imperial Mausoleum to learn the truth behind the plan, despite warning his companions that they might die.
• Yun Niang led Yang Qing and his companions through a hidden entrance and a torch-lit passage to a mountain overlooking Upside-Down City, then pointed them toward a nearby palace.