Recaps

Chu Xingchen and his companions returned from the Cangzhou and Chizhou crisis to the sect, where they settled into their shared life and faced partings and homecomings. Lin Luoyu revisited her complicated bond with Li Junzi, while Cui Hao began investigating why Li Junzi’s writing lacked literary qi.

• Qinghe and Chu Xingchen helped defeat Xu Yuan, and Chu Xingchen smashed Baxia’s statue and the Wordless Golden Stele to release the qi luck and complete the hidden mission.
• Chu Xingchen returned the cracked Imperial Jade Seal to Zhao Xuan, then brought Qinghe and Xie Lingyu to his sect, where they reunited with his disciples.
• Chu Xingchen advanced to the Middle Spirit Transformation Realm, completed the True Martial Hall, and gathered Li Yingling and Li Xingtian to examine a mysterious egg.
• Xie Lingyu departed after visiting the sect, and Chu Xingchen reassured Li Xingtian that the sect was a home he could return to.
• Lin Luoyu received a letter from her village about demons and decided to go home, so Cui Hao accompanied her after Chu Xingchen insisted she accept his help.
• Lin Luoyu reunited with Li Junzi and remembered how Li Junzi had cared for and taught her for years before she left to join an immortal sect.
• Lin Luoyu returned to Li Junzi after receiving a letter about demons, and they discussed the years of unanswered letters while Cui Hao stayed to speak with Li Junzi.
• Cui Hao examined Li Junzi’s writing and told her that he had skipped the Writing Brush Realm and entered the Book Rubbing Realm directly.

Chu Xingchen and the sect celebrated Li Yingling’s birthday before she left to travel, and Li Junzi found the confidence to follow her own literary path. Later, Chu Xingchen took Chen Baiqing to investigate the Incense-and-Fire Divine Path, where she escaped a village barrier with Zhou Ping but failed to rescue Patriarch Zhou, while Chen Mouguang prepared to expose the ritual to other sects.

• Cui Hao broke through to the Understanding Principle Realm and advised Li Junzi to gain life experience, then Li Junzi visited the sect with Lin Luoyu and met Chu Xingchen.
• Chu Xingchen organized the Everlasting Joy Plan for Li Yingling’s birthday, kept her from discovering it, and celebrated with the sect in Yuzhou City with lanterns, performances, and fireworks.
• Chu Xingchen gave Li Yingling a birthday celebration and group picture before she departed for Dongsheng Shenzhou, while Li Junzi regained her ability to write and later left to read the book within her heart.
• Chu Xingchen took Chen Baiqing, Lin Luoyu, and Cui Hao to the Heavenly Derivation Sect, where Chen Baiqing reached Golden Core and received an Azure Heaven Ring.
• Chu Xingchen and Chen Baiqing met Chen Mouguang in Northern Juluzhou, learned of the Incense-and-Fire Divine Path, and agreed to investigate a Mist Mystery Temple experimental site.
• Chen Baiqing entered the barrier at Zhou Mountain Village, allied with Zhou Ping, and found the Zhou Ancestor floating in an ancestral hall beneath an Incense-and-Fire Divine Path plaque.
• A Daoist old man stopped Chen Baiqing from taking Zhou Ancestor, but allowed her to leave with Zhou Ping after attacking an illusory Bai Xuanling.
• Chu Xingchen checked on Chen Baiqing outside the barrier, while Chen Mouguang questioned Zhou Ping and planned to share the ritual evidence with other immortal sects before Chu Xingchen and Chen Baiqing left to buy gifts.

Chu Xingchen confronted Yuyang Daozi and Zhang Daotan at Wuxuan Temple, while Li Yingling and Li Xingtian led a mission against evil cultivators in Cloud-Fading Valley. The valley’s Flower God Tree trapped members of the Heavenly Derivation Sect in an illusion, and the arc ended as its woman-form clashed with one of the disciples.

• Chu Xingchen broke into Wuxuan Temple and fought alongside Yuyang Daozi against Zhang Daotan, whose corrupted Wish Power transformed him into a formidable foe.
• Chu Xingchen and Yuyang Daozi brought Zhang Daotan down, and Chu Xingchen obtained the fragment that completed his mission before Bai Xuanling arrived to take him away.
• Chu Xingchen returned to Yongping Funeral Parlor, where he confronted Cui Hao and Qinghe over their plan to manipulate pill prices and ordered Cui Hao to teach Zhou Ping.
• Li Yingling reunited with Li Xingtian in Central Province and took charge of the operation against evil cultivators seeking the Dream Immortal Treasure.
• Li Yingling and the Heavenly Derivation Sect disciples ambushed Old Wang’s group, killed one evil cultivator, and drove the survivors into retreat while Meng Jun escaped with the Dream Pearl.
• Wang Lin and Li Xingtian entered the purple territory, where they found the Flower God Tree and discovered that its woman-form was using illusions to control two missing sect disciples.
• Wang Lin attacked the woman and ordered the group to wait for reinforcements, but she turned the tree into a Wooden Sword and trapped him in a storm of petals as a disciple rushed to help.

Chu Xingchen reunited with Li Yingling and her companions, while the sect shared a game-filled gathering and Lin Luoyu faced Azure Darkness. At Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, Li Yingling befriended Sandong and found an ancient ritual that Chu Xingchen recognized as a grave when Xie Lingyu activated it.

• Chu Xingchen rescued Li Xingtian from the flower-domain woman, killed her, and later brought Zhang Miaoyu to the sect as an Outer Sect Guest Advisor.
• The Heavenly Derivation Sect gathered to celebrate Xie Lingyu’s breakthrough, then played Monopoly, where Yan Yun had to buy a lavish meal and Li Yingling won.
• Chu Xingchen gave Bai Xuanling the cracked purple bead and agreed to investigate an abnormal area in Central Province.
• Lin Luoyu climbed Hidden Sword Peak, saw Azure Darkness’s story of Bai Xuanling, and refused to take the sword for herself before returning to Chu Xingchen.
• Li Yingling, Xie Lingyu, and Zhang Miaoyu lured Sandong with offerings, promised not to harm it, and persuaded it to guide them around Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge.
• Sandong led the group to a flower-covered cliff, where Li Yingling uncovered an elaborate ritual carved into the rock and decided to contact Chu Xingchen before opening it.
• Chu Xingchen arrived at the ridge and examined the ritual with Xie Lingyu, then sent the others away while Xie Lingyu stayed to help and keep watch.
• Xie Lingyu activated the ritual, revealing blue markings and another world beyond it, and Chu Xingchen realized the ritual was a grave.