Recaps

Luo Bin and Xu Lu survived conflict at Heaven Origin, confronted the Bright Consort, and found that caution had broken Xu Lu’s trust in his lineage. The arc ended with Xu Lu leaving the Mountain Gate with Luo Bin and Fourth Master Gray missing.

• Luo Bin restored Xu Jiuqu’s soul, and Xu Jiuqu stopped the ritual and drew a soul-suppressing talisman in his own blood.
• Xu Lu recovered his memories, learned Xu Shanding had sealed the burial shaft, and hurried down the mountain to help Luo Bin.
• Xu Changzhi accused Luo Bin’s group of murder, but Xu Lu stopped the elders from killing him and made him the new Third Consecrator.
• At Heaven Origin, Guo Baichi’s elders trapped Bai Xian with the Bright Consort, whose power also compelled Luo Bin and Xu Lu toward the Dao Hall.
• Jiang Hongsheng immobilized Luo Bin, and Guo Baichi drove the Bright Consort from Bai Xian before she escaped into the Dao Hall.
• Luo Bin drew the Bright Consort’s mist into the Human-Skin Garment, then fought Guo Baichi and defeated him with lightning talismans.
• Luo Bin and Xu Lu crossed the river with the Bright Consort’s help, then returned to Earth Aspect Lodge, where the leaders urged them to stay out of the coming crisis.
• Xu Lu rejected the leaders’ caution, renounced his place in the northern branch, and left with Luo Bin, who noticed Fourth Master Gray was missing.

Luo Bin and his companions entered Floating Tortoise Mountain to uncover its secrets and rescue Huang Ying from Li Yunyi. After confronting Li Yunyi and the Main Corpse, Luo Bin attacked the mountain’s practitioners for answers, then set out to check on the Feng residence as footsteps approached.

• Xu Lu, Luo Bin, and Bai Xian entered Floating Tortoise Mountain, where Blackblood Vine, Moss Eaters, and a voice calling Luo Bin back threatened them.
• Luo Bin and Xu Lu learned that Blackblood Vine had overrun the mountain’s settlements and that Li Yunyi had become its puppet, while Xu Lu continued toward the Feng Family to investigate.
• Luo Bin’s group reached Dai Zhixiong’s protected wooden house and used Golden Core Pills to mask their Corpse Qi before crossing a chasm and encountering the Main Corpse.
• Luo Bin reached the Feng Family and found that Li Yunyi had controlled its members and forced Huang Ying to make pills from her own flesh.
• Luo Bin and his companions subdued Li Yunyi, freed Huang Ying, and then fled as the Main Corpse broke into the Feng Family compound and took Li Yunyi’s remains.
• Li Xiangyang and other Floating Tortoise Mountain practitioners confronted Luo Bin, who captured Li Xiangyang’s soul and tormented the practitioners with his lantern and Gu Worms.
• Luo Bin questioned the practitioners about Li Qingxiu and Yin Spirit Projection, but a spell prevented them from revealing secrets, so he poisoned the survivors and headed back toward the Feng residence.

Luo Bin escaped Floating Tortoise Mountain and withdrew from his old companions to practice Primordial Calculation, confronting injustice in the neighborhood and taking Zhang Ze as his disciple. He continued questioning Heaven as an unseen force struck him, and Fourth Master Gray did not answer his call.

• Luo Bin helped Xu Lu lead the Feng Family out of Floating Tortoise Mountain after Li Qingxiu took over Li Yunyi’s body and the Blackblood Vine attacked her.
• After parting from Xu Lu and Bai Xian, Luo Bin gave Xu Lu the stone brain and chose to pursue Primordial Calculation on his own.
• Luo Bin settled in a haunted house, practiced his arts, and investigated attacks on neighborhood children, tracing them to Xu Yu.
• Luo Bin confronted Xu Yu’s abusive parents, and the Night Watch challenged him for taking human lives while he condemned their failure to act.
• Luo Bin helped Zhang Ze care for Zhao Gang, used feng shui to address the old man’s misfortune, and waited with Zhang Ze as events unfolded in the neighboring courtyard.
• Luo Bin named Zhang Ze his chief disciple and told him to study Primordial Calculation and help Zhao Gang find redemption.
• Jiang Xiao asked Luo Bin to find money left by his deceased parents, and Luo Bin arranged to see him again at nightfall.
• Luo Bin questioned whether Heaven Veil was necessary to emerge from darkness, then called for Fourth Master Gray and received no answer.

Luo Bin pursued the Death-Prison Yama Ghost to the Righteous Pagoda, where he uncovered the City God Temple’s failures and escaped the ghost’s memory prison. After rejecting Heaven’s rules and acknowledging his responsibility toward others, he began arranging burials for the drowned infants and sensed someone watching him.

• Luo Bin discovered that Netherworld Office officers were no longer collecting souls, then found the City God Temple’s On-Duty City God and opera troupe dead.
• Zheng Mi gathered five On-Duty City Gods to hunt the Death-Prison Yama Ghost, but their broken Netherworld Bells led them to suspect that Luo Bin was hiding a ghost.
• The Death-Prison Yama Ghost captured River Lady and Bright Consort, and Luo Bin chased it to the Righteous Pagoda, where he used himself and his artifacts to reinforce the tower’s suppression of the Infant Corpses.
• Luo Bin fought the Death-Prison Yama Ghost and the City God Temple officials, while the Night Watch accused him of killing the Netherworld Office and seized him.
• The Death-Prison Yama Ghost trapped Luo Bin in memories of his grandfather He Gongde, but Luo Bin recognized the ghost’s prison and escaped.
• Luo Bin left the pagoda after the ghost absorbed the Plague Ghost, returned to his shop, and told Zhang Hang that the City God Temple bore responsibility for the ghost’s escape.
• Luo Bin rejected the City God Temple’s doctrines and Heaven’s will, then gathered Old District residents to take responsibility for burying and honoring the drowned infants.
• Luo Bin climbed the Righteous Pagoda to prepare the Infant Corpses for removal, heard crying, and turned toward someone watching him.