Recaps

Xia Wanwan uncovered the secrets of Duke Yan’s household, helped Liu Zi Xing find his birth parents, and infiltrated the Death Warrior Camp with Xia Qianhui and Daoist Qianyun. The group learned of Yan Xiurong’s family’s revenge plot, but Uncle Qi tied them up as they prepared to expose the truth and rescue the Imperial Princes and Princesses.

• Gu Ming warned Duke Yan not to target Xia Wanwan, while Duke Yan admitted he had wronged Great Xia in pursuit of revenge for his wife.
• Xie Jinqian chose to reincarnate as Liu Wan’s child after revealing that he longed for the loving family Lady Liu had given Liu Wan.
• Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan confronted Duke Yan, who promised to support the new law and mistakenly took Yuanbao for Gu Ming.
• Gu Ming punished Yu for insulting Duke Yan and the dead, while Daoist Qianyun later revealed Yu’s treachery and identified Xia Wanwan’s Compass as the Demon God’s weapon.
• Daoist Qianyun used the Compass to help Liu Zi Xing seek his birth family, and Mama Qing revealed his parents had been death warriors.
• Xia Wanwan, Liu Zi Xing, and Daoist Qianyun entered the Death Warrior Camp, where Liu Zi Xing learned that Wan Qu and Qian Ye were his parents and heard their farewell message before they left on a mission.
• Xia Qianhui helped the group escape, and they sought refuge with Yan Xiurong, whose family secrets connected to Qiao Zhishu and a revenge plot against the Ruler of Eastern Lin.
• Xia Wanwan refused to flee before the truth emerged, so Uncle Qi and Yan Xiurong tied up Xia Wanwan, Liu Zi Xing, and Xia Qianhui while Daoist Qianyun remained free.

Xia Wanwan and her allies uncovered the deaths of Liu Zi Xing’s parents and learned that Demon God Jiyan had returned. Great Xia prepared to oppose East Lin and intervene in Southern Mei, while Xia Wanwan set out to confront Jiyan.

• Ci Mang attacked Yan Xiurong’s courtyard, but Xia Wanwan, Daoist Qianyun, and Duke Yan stopped him and arranged his death while Uncle Qi took over the Death Warrior Camp.
• Liu Zi Xing reunited with his parents’ lingering souls, learned they had died protecting his freedom, and watched them fade before Gu Ming gave their souls a vessel.
• Liu Zi Xing and his companions fought Yu’s forces, and Liu Shi’s soldiers arrested Yu as Liu Zi Xing reunited with Xia Siheng and his family.
• The King of Nanmei allied with Jiyan and ordered the Eldest Princess to accept Qiu City’s slaughter, so she sought Great Xia’s help to oppose him.
• Jiyan rejected the skeleton made from the Mystic Sect elder’s ashes and flew toward Great Xia after his scouting crows were killed.
• Jiyan appeared on Phoenix Mountain and demanded that Yan Xiurong lead him to the phoenix, while Steward Qian later told her that Duke Yan had been imprisoned to protect her.
• The Empress Dowager and Xia Siheng planned to aid the Eldest Princess and attack East Lin, while Xia Wanwan prepared to face Jiyan with Yuanbao and Jing Wu.
• Liu Zi Xing prepared to leave for Azure Cloud Temple with Daoist Qianyun, and Xia Wanwan gave them elixirs and talismans.

Xia Wanwan discovers that Shen Chuanlian is Jiyan, whose failed resurrection leaves him in a child’s body, and tries to restrain his plans for revenge. The story then shifts to the Eastern Lin welcome, where Princess Liuli challenges Great Xia to a poetry contest.

• Xia Wanwan learns that Jiyan’s ashes were replaced with lime, leaving him trapped in a child’s body after the Heavenly Dao destroys his reconstructed form.
• Xia Wanwan discovers Shen Chuanlian is Jiyan after he helps Liu Zimu kill A Pai, and she uses her Soul-Control Technique to restrain him.
• Jiyan reveals that he wants revenge on the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect, while Xi Cha appears as his Right Guardian and Xia Wanwan draws Xi Cha’s divine soul into her Gourd.
• Xia Wanwan tells Liu Wan to avoid Jiyan and gives Liu Zimu a protective talisman before the family prepares for the Ruler of Eastern Lin’s visit.
• Consort Xian asks Xia Wanwan to help her resemble Wushuang so she can attract the Ruler of Eastern Lin, and the Empress Dowager reveals she has Wushuang’s portrait.
• At the emperor’s birthday banquet, Princess Liuli enters before the Ruler of Eastern Lin, and Xia Wanwan mocks the delegation for ignoring the palace attendant.
• Consort Jing challenges Great Xia to find a girl who can rival Princess Liuli in poetry, Qian Zhibing nominates Qian Shiyue, and Princess Liuli begins the contest with a verse about the Yellow River.

Xia Wanwan and her allies humiliated the Ruler of Eastern Lin, uncovered his schemes, and maneuvered around his attempts to claim Yuanbao and seize power. As East Lin’s plot converged with the Qilin ritual, Shen Chuanlian headed toward the Qilin to recover his power and true form.

• Xia Wanwan completed Princess Liuli’s poetic challenge, then had the jadeite carved into a humiliating image that the Great Xia court displayed on the capital walls.
• The Ruler of Eastern Lin recognized Yuanbao as resembling Wushuang and tried to draw him close, while Liu Wan and Xia Siheng considered how to use the resemblance without involving Yuanbao against his will.
• Shen Chuanlian remembered his mother’s death, his revenge, and how the Heavenly Dao had engineered his suffering before sealing his divine soul in the World-Suppressing Tower.
• Xia Wanwan and Princess Liuli discovered they were both from the modern world and became friends, while Liuli confided her fear that the Ruler of Eastern Lin might kill her.
• Yuanbao attended the Ruler of Eastern Lin’s drugged-wine meeting, rejected his advances, and escaped with Jing Wu’s help as Consort Xian dealt with the ruler.
• The Emperor of Great Xia exposed Duke Yan’s dealings with East Lin, but Duke Yan revealed the planned Qilin ceremony and then proposed a coup with the Ruler of Eastern Lin.
• The Ruler of Eastern Lin presented the Qilin Horn and announced that the Qilin would choose a child as its master, while Liu Wan urged Xia Wanwan not to panic when it appeared.
• Shen Chuanlian sensed the Qilin and ordered Gu Ming to take him there so he could restore his power and true form, but they ran into Cat Bro.