Recaps

Xia Wanwan helped Xie Jinqian reincarnate into the Liu family, then joined Liu Zi Xing in searching for his birth parents at the Death Warrior Camp. Their escape exposed Yan Xiurong’s family secrets, and the arc left Ci Mang returning to her courtyard as danger closed in.

• Daoist Huiyue guided Xie Jinqian’s soul into Minister Liu’s room, where he reincarnated as Liu Wan’s child.
• Xia Siheng and Xia Wanwan confronted Duke Yan, who took Gu Ming back to his residence, where Gu Ming punished Yu for insulting Duke Yan.
• Daoist Qianyun used the Compass to help Liu Zi Xing search for his birth family, and Mama Qing told them his parents had been death warriors.
• Xia Wanwan, Liu Zi Xing, and Daoist Qianyun found the Death Warrior Camp, where Wan Qu and Qian Ye were ordered on a mission they were not expected to survive.
• Liu Zi Xing met Wan Qu and Qian Ye, who gave him their ribbons, his childhood portrait, and an explanation for sending him away.
• Xia Qianhui helped Xia Wanwan, Liu Zi Xing, and Daoist Qianyun escape, and they sought shelter with Yan Xiurong as Ci Mang’s men searched for them.
• Uncle Qi revealed that Yan Xiurong’s family was pursuing revenge against the Ruler of Eastern Lin, while Xia Wanwan persuaded them to tie up her group rather than flee.
• Ci Mang ordered Wan Qu and Qian Ye to assassinate Lord Gu, then returned to Yan Xiurong’s courtyard, where Uncle Qi sensed an attack as a blade aura struck the drying rack.

Liu Zi Xing reunited with his parents’ lingering souls before they faded, while the Eldest Princess of Southern Mei turned against her brother’s plans and sought Great Xia’s help. As Jiyan returned to Great Xia, Xia Wanwan prepared to confront him, and Liu Zi Xing left for Azure Cloud Temple.

• Ci Mang attacked Xia Wanwan and Liu Zi Xing, but Duke Yan intervened, revealed Xia Wanwan as Princess Ximing, and ordered Ci Mang’s death concealed.
• Liu Zi Xing learned that his parents, Wan Qu and Qian Ye, had died six years earlier and had remained as souls only to see him again before fading away.
• Gu Ming made Zi Xing’s ribbon a vessel for his parents’ souls, while Liu Zi Xing and his companions fought Yu and the death warriors at the Duke’s Residence.
• The King of Nanmei revealed his plan to sacrifice Qiu City and blame the Eldest Princess, who resolved to oppose him and asked A Shu to seek Xia Siheng’s cooperation.
• Jiyan rejected the skeleton made from the Mystic Sect elder’s ashes and flew to Great Xia, while Yan Xiurong and Xia Qianhui encountered him on Phoenix Mountain.
• Yan Xiurong learned Duke Yan was imprisoned to protect her, and told Steward Qian she planned to make Xia Qianhui love her so East Lin would capture him while she escaped.
• The Empress Dowager and emperor chose Zhong Youyan to lead forces in Southern Mei, while Xia Wanwan prepared to face Jiyan with Yuanbao and Jing Wu.
• Liu Zi Xing left for Azure Cloud Temple with Daoist Qianyun, and Xia Wanwan learned that Lady Liu was pregnant again.

Jiyan returned in a child’s body after his ashes were replaced with lime, and Xia Wanwan struggled to keep him and his guardians under control while learning of his revenge plan. The story then shifted to the emperor’s birthday banquet, where Great Xia faced Princess Liuli in a poetry contest with a sovereign’s request at stake.

• Jiyan’s attempt to rebuild his body from the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect’s ashes failed when his bones collapsed, and the Heavenly Dao’s lightning scattered his baleful aura.
• Xia Wanwan took the awakened child Jiyan into her care, and he later revealed himself after Liu Zimu killed A Pai with his help.
• Xia Wanwan subdued Jiyan with her Soul-Control Technique and learned he sought revenge on the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect for sealing him away.
• Xi Cha appeared as Jiyan’s Right Guardian, but Xia Wanwan defeated him and drew his divine soul into her Gourd while vowing to take Jiyan to the World-Suppressing Tower.
• The Empress Dowager revealed Wushuang’s portrait after Consort Xian planned to resemble him to win the Ruler of Eastern Lin.
• At the emperor’s birthday banquet, Princess Liuli challenged Great Xia’s young ladies to a poetry contest, and the Ruler of Eastern Lin offered a supreme-grade yellow jadeite and a sovereign’s request as the stakes.
• Qian Shiyue answered Princess Liuli’s verse with a poem about blossoms rising from withered trees, but Xia Wanwan judged it far short of the original.

Xia Wanwan and her family maneuvered against the Ruler of Eastern Lin while old plots and hidden identities came to light. As the Qilin appeared at the ceremony, Shen Chuanlian fled and the Qilin headed toward Consort Jing and her child.

• Xia Wanwan won the poetry contest, then forced the Ruler of Eastern Lin to honor Princess Liuli’s jade-carving promise, revealing a carving that branded East Lin with a lump of shit.
• The Ruler of Eastern Lin recognized Yuanbao as resembling Wushuang and tried to draw him close, while Xia Siheng and Liu Wan refused to let him control their family.
• Shen Chuanlian learned that Liu Wan had the Lotus Sacred Body and remembered how the Heavenly Dao had engineered his suffering and sealed his divine soul in the World-Suppressing Tower.
• Princess Liuli revealed to Xia Wanwan that she had come from the modern world, and the two girls became friends while discussing Liuli’s fear of the Ruler of Eastern Lin.
• Yuanbao resisted the Ruler of Eastern Lin’s advances at Emerald Mist House, and Consort Xian used drugged wine and hallucinogenic pills to thwart the ruler’s scheme.
• Duke Yan revealed East Lin’s coup plan, and the Great Xia emperor used a rabbit’s images to uncover the conspirators’ discussion as Xia Siheng pretended to rush into battle.
• At the Qilin ceremony, Shen Chuanlian fled toward the Qilin despite Yuanbao’s warning, and the Qilin appeared over the altar before heading toward Consort Jing and her child.