Recaps

Lin Ke gained disciples, turned his creative ventures into popular businesses, survived an assassination attempt, and discovered that fiction could strengthen his power. The arc ended as his contest with Qi Ye began, with Qi Ye’s poem producing a hundred-li manifestation.

• The Assistant Director refused to judge the phrase “a harsh household,” and Lin Ke argued that people’s resolve, not suffering, deserved praise, while his teachers defended him against the Meng Family’s challenge.
• The Meng Family head declared that Lin Ke must marry his daughter for completing the Way of Mencius, and powerful elders competed to take Lin Ke as a disciple before he accepted Kongtongzi and Master Pudu and enrolled 216 masters.
• Lin Ke opened his Escape Room, where visitors’ fear helped Soul Hall disciples advance, and he planned to expand the business while launching a basketball arena and other ventures.
• Li Feiyu’s assassin attacked Lin Ke, but Lin Ke and his allies subdued her, killed her, and concluded that Lord Qiu’s separate threat did not prove the Left Office had arranged the attack.
• Chen An gave Lin Ke Yu Chu’s Miscellaneous Tales and explained how novelists fought through imagined worlds, prompting Lin Ke to achieve Qi Induction and use his power of reform on A Leaf Shrouding Heaven.
• As the city anticipated the contest, Lin Ke weighed his chances against Qi Ye in poetry, dance, and painting, and officials prepared a square for their showdown.
• Qi Ye arrived with a grand entourage and recited a poem that produced a hundred-li echo manifestation, before a calm voice began reciting, “One day, the great roc would rise with the wind, soaring straight up ninety thousand li!”

Lin Ke defeated Qi Ye in poetry, dance, and painting, then gathered disciples and allies while preparing for the next contest. Minister Qi equipped him for a dangerous journey and brought him to the Golden Crow Sun Realm, where the Golden Crow Emperor was in seclusion.

• Lin Ke’s poem for Fang Yun drew the support of more than two hundred masters, while Kumarajiva and Ge Hong offered to make him the Buddhist and Daoist Heir.
• Lin Ke completed his disciple ceremony and manifested a poem that slowed time before entering the contest against Qi Ye.
• Lin Ke won the poetry round with “Gazing at Mount Tai,” then won the dance round with “Sword Dance Silver Snake,” accompanied by Qi Kaishan.
• Lin Ke defeated Qi Ye in painting with “Sunrise,” announced plans to recruit disciples, and began organizing his followers and businesses.
• Li Chungang revealed the hidden backgrounds of Lin Ke’s neighbors, and Shopkeeper Tong agreed to host a far-reaching Heart-to-Heart network.
• Minister Qi urged Lin Ke to defeat Qi Ye without killing him, gave him powerful treasures and an External Incarnation, and asked him to master its control.
• Lin Ke rapidly mastered multitasking, packed his belongings into a Mount Sumeru bracelet, and learned about the dangers of the Ten Thousand Mountains and Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Minister Qi took Lin Ke to the Golden Crow Sun Realm, where they confirmed the Golden Crow Emperor was in life-or-death seclusion and his wife stared at Lin Ke.

Lin Ke built a base in Cloud Dream Marsh, founded a new beast-partnership lineage, and created the Encyclopedia of Biology. At court, officials challenged his filial piety and standing, but powerful allies backed him, and Princess Tian arrived and struck Lin Xuanji.

• Minister Qi brought Lin Ke to Cloud Dream Marsh, where Lin Ke began building a hidden organization and claimed a mountain as his base.
• Lin Ke gathered spirit beasts and demons, captured several in Pokémon, and explored the island under the Mountain Giant Banyan’s rule.
• Lin Ke taught Wang Qingshan that beast mastery relied on trust and partnership, and Wang declared him the founding ancestor of the new lineage.
• Lin Ke dictated the Encyclopedia of Biology, whose creation filled the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty with manifestations of plants, animals, and landscapes.
• At court, the Grand Tutor challenged Lin Ke’s filial piety and threatened his examination rights, while Lin Ke explained that his mother had been abandoned by Lin Xuanji.
• Wang Qingshan, Shopkeeper Tong, and Bai Zhantang defended Lin Ke, and Jia Sixie became his disciple after seeking instruction in the Biological Great Dao.
• The Capital Prefecture Left Secretary accused Lin Ke of more than seventeen hundred offenses, and Wang Lin shattered his skull with a bracelet.
• Wang Lin revealed herself as Princess Tian, greeted the officials, and slapped Lin Xuanji.

Lin Ke faced judgment at court, won honors for his mother, and was appointed to lead a new bureau as the Sage Emperor revealed the Divine Land’s looming threats. After Wang Lin defeated Lin Xuanji, Lin Ke made the Lin Residence his base and advanced his cultivation while gathering resources in Cloud Dream Marsh.

• Wang Lin revealed the River Chart’s prophecy about Lin Ke, proposed raising him above the Three Dukes, and brought him before the Sage Emperor as the court convened.
• The court witnessed Lin Ke’s mother’s suffering and death, then divided over her honors and Lin Ke’s place in the hierarchy as Lin Xuanji demanded his execution.
• Lin Ke threatened the officials who claimed they would die for the Sacred Path, and his allies rallied behind him as he denounced corrupt rites and officials.
• The Sage Emperor honored Lady Lin as a first-rank Imperial Patent Lady, created the Great Wilderness Bureau under Lin Ke, and accepted Lin Ke’s proposal for a council to share its decisions.
• The Sage Emperor exiled Lin Xuanji and appointed Lin Ke to revise the harsh rites, while the court learned that rival worlds threatened the Divine Land and the Great Dao Battlefield would open within a century.
• Wang Lin defeated Lin Xuanji in a battle above the Nine Heavens, and Lin Ke decided to buy the Lin Residence as a home and base for his companions.
• Lin Ke returned to Cloud Dream Marsh, advanced to the Second Realm of the Reformer School, and studied a Jade-Wave Three-Legged Frog’s power after it attacked his leopard.