Recaps

Shu Changsheng defeated the Demonic Path’s East Sea army and became Plague Division Heavenly Lord, while Li Ling expanded the Incense Accumulation Sect’s influence through the Rosy Mists Gate and Soul-Soothing Incense. As the White Ning Kingdom’s war began, Li Ling recruited local cultivators and Shu Changsheng’s campaign met the Money Guild’s hidden power.

• Li Si joined the Corpse Immortal Sect’s counteroffensive, while Zhang San enlisted with the Garrison Commissioner’s Office and later devised Insect-Repelling Incense to disable Human-Head Centipedes.
• Shu Changsheng led reinforcements into Chang Kong Sea, overcame the Bone King Deity with Gong Chi’s help, and captured Centipede Island as the righteous forces advanced.
• Li Si was killed after the incense-disoriented Human-Head Centipede crashed into the sea, and Shu Changsheng, Li Haoran, and Gao Huan annihilated Huang Zongmai’s army.
• Li Ling secured Shu Changsheng the substantive position of Heavenly Lord, and Shu received the Plague Division position fruit before redeploying to Du Sea against Xin Yue’s forces.
• Li Ling established the Rosy Mists Gate as an overseas subordinate sect, appointed Zhang San and others to senior posts, and introduced Soul-Soothing Incense and Rebirth Grand Offerings to the East Sea.
• The offerings calmed wandering ghosts and weakened the supply of Nether Path resources, while Xin Yue encouraged Feast Incense and prepared disorder ahead of the next battle.
• The White Ning King launched a campaign with demonic support, but the Rosy Mists Gate rallied local forces and Li Ling welcomed Xie Shaojing and other grassroots cultivators into the righteous cause.
• Shu Changsheng opened a campaign on Yiwu Island, where Guo Yuanchi and Dongfang Ming fought the Ghost Immortals before Wan Yong used a Money Mountain to smash into the Heavenly Court forces.

Li Ling broke the Money Guild’s alliance with the Netherworld Sect, killed Qian Fu, and defeated Qian Kun by turning the Greenfly Coin’s greed against him. After taking on the role of Treasure Envoy and preparing to refine the coin, Li Ling left for the South Sea to investigate the Fell Star, whose foul aura might attract cultivators tied to the Five Turbidities.

• Li Ling killed the White Ning King, rejected Qian Fu’s proposal to limit the conflict, and learned that Pei Qingguang’s faction would support him at a critical moment.
• The Money Guild attacked Li Ling’s allies, so Li Ling retaliated by driving its businesses from Incense Market territory and using the Ghost Tiger to defeat Wan Yong.
• Li Ling rallied North Sea deities and cultivators, isolated Qian Kun within the Money Guild, and joined his allies in killing Qian Fu at Du Sea.
• Qian Kun secretly allied with the Corpse Immortal Sect, but Li Ling and Yu Qiuxian wounded him and helped Qian Dan turn the Qian Household against him.
• Qian Kun used the Greenfly Coin to summon the Money Puppet, but Li Ling resisted its greed, corrupted Qian Kun’s own desire, and helped Pei Qingguang and Jin Yuanbo dissolve the puppet.
• Li Ling accepted the Money Guild’s Treasure Envoy role, helped settle the Qian Household’s succession, and returned the Greenfly Coin to the Que Luo Immortal Abode for refinement.
• As the righteous forces advanced through Du Sea, the Heavenly Court seized the Fell Star in the South Sea, where Radiance Heavenly Lord drove back the Demonic Path.
• Li Ling traveled south with Chi Yingting, Lin Rouniang, and other allies, then sensed a Five Turbidities-like aura near the Fell Star and considered that Tong Daquan or others with similar origins might be drawn to it.

Li Ling helped Tong Daquan survive the Fell Star, defeated Li Ying’s Thousand-Faced Devil Lord, and secured the star’s power for the Incense Accumulation Sect. While Li Ling entered seclusion to pursue Spirit Transformation, disasters spread across the seas and Xin Yue seized Goldsource Island, leaving Nie Yingzhi to weigh the sect’s next move.

• Li Ling brought Tong Daquan to the Fell Star, whose power transformed him, and used incense arts to preserve Tong Daquan’s consciousness when his body collapsed.
• Li Ling and Chi Yingting pursued the Thousand-Faced Devil Lord, discovered that he was Li Ying, and killed his last avatar after Li Ying begged to return to the sect.
• Li Ling studied Li Ying’s human-refined incense and used it to draw spirit resonance from the Asura Corpse Abomination, creating an incense deity and strengthening Chi Yingting.
• The Fell Star’s fate-turbidity power killed Grand Elder Wang, and the righteous forces evacuated the sealed star with Tong Daquan’s body.
• Li Ling persuaded the other sects to accept Tong Daquan as the Fell Star’s host, restored him, and warned him that using its power consumed his lifespan.
• Li Ling prepared Seven Emotions Incense for Chi Yingting, reported Li Ying’s reincarnation to Mu Qingsi, and entered seclusion to attempt Spirit Transformation as signs of the five-turbidities catastrophe emerged.
• Nie Yingzhi coordinated the Incense Accumulation Sect’s response to outbreaks and disasters across the seas, while the sect distributed protective incense against fish-scale disease.
• Xin Yue and Qian Ding captured Goldsource Island and drew Money Guild members to their cause, while Chi Yingting told Nie Yingzhi he was ready to break through and sought permission to pursue enlightenment in the West Sea.

Li Ling reached Spirit Transformation, defeated the forces conspiring against the Incense Accumulation Sect, and expanded the Incense Path across the seas. As apotheosis returned and disasters spread across the continents, the sect began preparing its disciples for the dangers ahead.

• Nie Yingzhi went to support the West Sea while Chi Yingting defended the Incense Accumulation Sect, and Li Ling’s century of cultivation culminated in his ascension to Spirit Transformation.
• Xin Yue and the Four Great Clans attacked the sect, but Chi Yingting broke through to Nascent Soul and Li Ling defeated the four Ghost Immortals before returning to the sect.
• Li Ling reclaimed Goldsource Island’s treasures, confronted Xin Yue at Sangting Island, and killed him after discovering the Corpse Immortal Seal was his weakness.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Old Ancestor’s power contaminated Sangting Island, so Li Ling sealed it off and captured the Corpse Kun for study.
• Li Ling and Chi Yingting sealed the Long Sea passage, then opened the ambergris-filled secret realm to cultivators and helped the Incense Path flourish through new methods and products.
• Li Ling organized the Ten Thousand Incense Compendium and expanded the sect’s cultivation methods as the Withering of the Immortal Root spread across the southeastern Mystic Continent.
• At the Heavenly Court, Li Ling agreed to provide candidates for renewed apotheosis and later arranged for Zhou Xing, who had died in an accident, to serve in the Bureau of Sacrificial Meals.
• Li Ling made posthumous apotheosis available to formal disciples and offered aging cultivators apotheosis or reincarnation as disasters intensified across the continents.