Recaps

Yu Tiange threatened Wang Anquan into helping him obtain intelligence on North Wind Town’s teleportation formations, while He Zhu Zhu demonstrated her fierce resolve to protect her son. The chapter revealed Yu Tiange’s Yu Ancient Clan background and ended with Ren Ye preparing to use the gray-robed female corpse to steal files and case records.

• Yu Tiange threatened to mutilate Wang Anquan’s kidnapped son unless Wang helped him, and He Zhu Zhu attacked Yu Tiange before Wang stopped her from striking.
• He Zhu Zhu warned Yu Tiange not to harm her son and told Wang Anquan they would face the consequences together.
• Yu Tiange ordered Wang Anquan to provide detailed information on North Wind Town’s seven teleportation Grand Formations before noon the next day.
• Wang Anquan agreed to try and escorted Yu Tiange to a secluded building, where Yu settled in for the night.
• Yu Tiange recalled the Yu Ancient Clan’s history, his potential inheritance from Heavenly Venerable Yingyuan, and how he had obtained a Heaven’s Grace Token.
• Ren Ye brought out the gray-robed female corpse and told Daoist Chu he planned to use her to steal a group’s files and case records.

Ren Ye investigated Niu Dali’s role in the Treasury massacre, identified Niu Dali’s brother-in-law Lu Zhao as a likely accomplice, and planned to watch him. Meanwhile, Yu Tiange pressured Wang Anquan to collect materials to repair North Wind Town’s teleportation formations, and Wang secretly signaled for help; the chapter ended with Daoist Chu reporting that someone had put something up.

• Ren Ye possessed the Otherworlder woman’s corpse to search the Military Records Office, but found no personnel files on Niu Dali’s officers.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu met Liu Wei at the Embroidered Silk Courtyard, where Liu Wei named Lu Zhao as Niu Dali’s closest officer and identified him as Niu Dali’s younger brother-in-law.
• Ren Ye resolved to have Daoist Chu watch Lu Zhao while he sought a way to make him reveal whether Niu Dali had taken the missing star source.
• Wang Anquan gave Yu Tiange details about North Wind Town’s teleportation formations and defenses, but resisted Yu’s demand that he gather repair materials within two days.
• Yu Tiange threatened Wang Anquan’s son unless Wang cooperated, and Wang later decided to seek help by hanging an extra lantern outside the Prefectural Yamen.
• Daoist Chu rushed in to tell Ren Ye that someone had put something up, and Ren Ye mistakenly feared Liu Wei had died.

Ren Ye and Wang Anquan struck a tentative deal to cooperate on recovering North Wind Town and rescuing their respective targets, while Ren Ye planned to observe Yu Tiange before deciding whether to meet him. As Ren Ye and Daoist Chu investigated Lu Zhao’s missing lover, Ren Ye detected a faint smell of blood in her bedroom.

• Daoist Chu told Ren Ye that Wang Anquan had hung a lantern to summon him, and Ren Ye secretly went to meet Wang Anquan at the Garrison Prefecture.
• Wang Anquan questioned Ren Ye about other Divine Court agents in North Wind Town, and Ren Ye revealed that another group of eight people carrying Conscription Tokens was present.
• Wang Anquan explained that Yu Tiange had kidnapped his son Wenping and demanded information about the Grand Formations and rare repair materials; Ren Ye agreed to observe their next meeting from hiding.
• Wang Anquan offered to help Ren Ye retrieve Jiu Zhi and cooperate in retaking North Wind Town, while Ren Ye advised him to wait until Yu Tiange’s two-day deadline before responding.
• Daoist Chu reported that Lu Zhao had failed to leave his lover’s house or report for work, and Ren Ye went with him to investigate the apparently empty residence.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu searched the house and found it tidy, but Ren Ye detected a faint smell of blood coming from the cabinet beside the bed.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu investigated Lu Zhao’s disappearance and suspected that Niu Dali or another conspirator had silenced him. Ren Ye then secretly observed Yu Tiange threaten Wang Anquan into gathering intelligence for an attack, but refused to reveal his identity when Wang Anquan asked him to intervene.

• Ren Ye found a bloody, unfinished mark behind a cabinet in Lu Zhao’s room, and he and Daoist Chu reasoned that Lu Zhao’s mortal lover had been killed and Lu Zhao was likely taken or killed.
• Daoist Chu suspected the mark pointed to Niu Dali, while Ren Ye considered that it might have been planted to frame him; they decided to watch how the authorities responded to Lu Zhao’s disappearance.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu secretly entered the Garrison Prefecture, where Ren Ye overheard Yu Tiange confront Wang Anquan about failing to obtain materials for repairing the Teleportation Grand Formations.
• Yu Tiange demanded that Wang Anquan gather detailed intelligence on the South Mountain Illusion Realm’s guards and Niu Dali, and arrange a meeting with Jiu Zhi within three days, threatening Wang Anquan’s family if he refused.
• Yu Tiange revealed a genuine token bearing the First Prince’s Dao Rhyme, confirming his connection to the Divine Court; afterward, Wang Anquan begged Ren Ye to use his Fulong Pavilion identity to stop Yu Tiange.
• Ren Ye refused to reveal his identity, saying he did not think Yu Tiange was someone he could work with.

Ren Ye advised Wang Anquan to cooperate with Yu Tiange while keeping Jiu Zhi in custody, then investigated the hidden clue in Lu Zhao’s disappearance. Yu Tiange agreed to leave Jiu Zhi in place for now, while Wang Tudou reacted to a change in a mysterious crimson sphere.

• Ren Ye promised to help Wang Anquan rescue his son secretly and told him to meet Yu Tiange’s demands while refusing to hand over Jiu Zhi until it was safe.
• Ren Ye learned that Lu Zhao had disappeared and, through Liu Wei, discovered that the Martial Monk Supervisory Office had found no clues despite the investigators searching Lu Zhao’s lover’s residence.
• Ren Ye concluded that Niu Dali might either be hiding his own involvement or concealing evidence while pursuing whoever had targeted him, and he asked Daoist Chu to watch Niu Dali.
• Wang Anquan let Yu Tiange visit Jiu Zhi in disguise but refused to release him before the North Wind Town situation was settled; Yu Tiange accepted the delay and demanded that Wang make no further requests during the plan.
• Wang Tudou noticed the crimson sphere’s light dim and sent a pawn to stay while ordering a general to investigate.

Wang Tudou’s history revealed how he survived his weak Sufferer inheritance by carefully ambushing vulnerable travelers and building strength through their blood essence. In North Wind Town, Yang Sanhai returned from checking a monitored location, and Wang Tudou ordered the team to continue watching Wang Anquan without warning him.

• Yang Sanhai abandoned a winning Pai Gow hand after receiving the team’s signal and hurried to his assigned position.
• Wang Tudou’s first-grade inheritance gave him no treasure or spells, only a painful method of strengthening his body with others’ blood essence.
• After leaving Black Cage Fortress nearly penniless, Wang Tudou ambushed and killed an injured third-tier traveler, taking Star Source and a magic treasure before returning for medicine.
• Wang Tudou explained that he had prepared the ambush by absorbing blood energy from stolen corpses, and said his ruthless methods came from learning the Chaos Faction’s rules of survival.
• Yang Sanhai reported that the target location showed no illusion realm or unusual aura after Wang Anquan visited with a medical practitioner.
• Wang Tudou rejected warning Wang Anquan and told Yang Sanhai to continue monitoring him routinely.

Wang Tudou and Yang Sanhai discussed the dangers of their assignment and their squad’s arrangements, while Ren Ye helped Wang Anquan find a way to undermine Yu Tiange’s risky plan by getting Niu Dali recalled. The chapter ended with Niu Dali asking to speak with a prisoner who claimed to know the Human Emperor Successor.

• Wang Tudou explained that he was waiting for their enemies to reveal themselves, then lent Yang Sanhai two hundred thousand star source and warned him to avoid Mora and the Inner Manor officials.
• Ren Ye learned that Yu Tiange planned to drug and kidnap Niu Dali, free captive generals, and repair three teleportation formations so Divine Court reinforcements could retake North Wind Town.
• Wang Anquan explained why Yu Tiange’s plan was dangerously flawed, and Ren Ye advised him to anonymously report Niu Dali so the Heavenly Radiance Temple might recall him.
• Ren Ye pointed to the disappearance of Lu Zhao as a possible basis for the report, and Wang Anquan considered how to stir up the factions in North Wind Town.
• Niu Dali asked his guard to bring him the prisoner who claimed to know where the Human Emperor Successor was.

Wang Anquan’s anonymous report prompted Heavenly Radiance Temple to investigate Niu Dali, and Mora and Ren Ye both helped strengthen the suspicions against him. Ordered back to the temple for questioning, Niu Dali prepared to leave with his guards and chose to take the Little Marquis along, leaving Ren Ye alarmed.

• Wang Anquan persuaded Yu Tiange to abandon kidnapping Niu Dali, then sent Heavenly Radiance Temple a damaging report about him.
• Bodhisattva Zhuyuan questioned Mora about missing star source and Niu Dali’s conduct, and Mora replied that the accounts were questionable and Niu Dali was under suspicion.
• Ren Ye told Yuyang that Niu Dali was implicated, encouraged his master to act against him, and promised to obtain the Dao-Comprehending Ginseng Fruit.
• The Deathless Tower ordered Mora to temporarily assist with military affairs and summoned Niu Dali to return for questioning with twenty Personal Guards.
• Niu Dali handed Mora his command token and seal, then told a trusted guard to bring one more person with them when they departed.
• Daoist Chu returned to Ren Ye with news that Niu Dali planned to take the Little Marquis to Heavenly Radiance Temple.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu planned to rescue the Little Marquis after Niu Dali took him from North Wind Town, while Wang Anquan and Yu Tiange prepared to launch their rebellion that evening. Yu Tiange sent Wang Anquan his son Wenping’s severed finger as a warning, and Ren Ye set out to search for Wenping.

• Daoist Chu told Ren Ye that Niu Dali was taking the Little Marquis to Heavenly Radiance Temple, so Ren Ye arranged for Daoist Chu to follow them and attempt a rescue.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu agreed to use Tian Beads to signal danger or success, and Daoist Chu gave Ren Ye ten Ground-Shrinking Talismans for a quick pursuit.
• Niu Dali left North Wind Town at noon with twenty attendants and the Little Marquis, while Wang Anquan invited Warrior Monk Prefecture officers to a dinner before the rebellion planned for that evening.
• Wang Anquan demanded proof that his son Wenping was alive, but Yu Tiange sent him Wenping’s severed little finger and bone-mending salve as a threat.
• Wang Anquan told Ren Ye about the delivery and asked him to find Wenping; he also gave Ren Ye two young relatives to assist and a bottle of Soul-Confusing Immortal Incense.

Ren Ye used the clues surrounding Wang Wenping’s kidnapping to search the western district with Tu Yishan and Tu Ershui, while Wang Anquan and Yu Tiange prepared to seize control of the Garrison Prefecture. The chapter ended with Niu Dali choosing to wait at a post station and mentioning the Spirit Cat.

• Ren Ye recognized that the Soul-Confusing Immortal Incense could explain the slaughter in the underground treasury and reconsidered Wang Anquan’s hidden motives.
• Ren Ye met Tu Yishan and Tu Ershui, learned their father had died defending Kunwu City, and followed the pockmarked courier to a Curio and Antique Shop without confronting him.
• Ren Ye deduced that Wang Wenping’s captors were likely hiding somewhere in West City Six Streets and sought information from refugees and beggars.
• A young beggar directed Ren Ye and the Tu brothers toward the Corpse-Mourning Red Pavilion, where they suspected the captors might be hiding.
• Wang Anquan drugged the invited officers’ food and wine, then joined Yu Tiange in launching an uprising with the Wang Family cultivators.
• Niu Dali refused to leave the post station as ordered and said he would wait because of the Spirit Cat.

Yu Tiange’s team trapped the Garrison Prefecture officers at a banquet, killed their guards, and took control of the operation to free Divine Court prisoners and clear the teleportation formations. As his plan unfolded, another pair of men in North Wind Town prepared to kill someone before the night was over.

• Wang Anquan lured the military officers to a banquet, where Yu Tiange and five masked teammates sealed the hall and poisoned them.
• Yu Tiange announced the Divine Court’s aims, and Ruyue killed Old Zhou and trapped his soul in a Soul-Refining Banner after he refused to identify Qu Acai.
• Yu Tiange used the Nine Heavens Immortal-Tier Great Thunder Seal to cow the remaining officers, while Wang Anquan reported that their Personal Guards had all been killed.
• Yu Tiange ordered Wang Anquan, Ruyue, Cheng Yuan, and He Zhu Zhu to free three hundred prisoners from the South Mountain Illusion Realm and prepare the teleportation formations; he sent Sanlang to transfer away the troops guarding the arrays.
• Elsewhere in North Wind Town, two men playing a board game agreed that a man they had been watching would not survive the night.

Ren Ye’s group found a suspiciously clean, aura-free basement in the Corpse-Mourning Red Pavilion and waited for a change, while Yu Tiange’s allies seized the teleportation formations and began moving against the prisoners and Jiu Zhi. The chapter ended as Tianhan and Northern Mountain broke into Jiu Zhi’s chamber and Wang Tudou’s scarlet orb lost its power.

• A-Er used his rabbit-shaped Human-Machine Puppet to scout the Corpse-Mourning Red Pavilion and found an aura-free area on its first basement level, so Ren Ye ordered the group to watch and wait.
• Wang Anquan obtained Jia Yuan’s approval to enter the South Mountain Illusion Realm and recruited Hao Ming and other prisoners to help seize and repair the teleportation formations.
• A suspicious adjutant came to question Han Li, but Yu Tiange forced Han Li to claim Niu Dali might be colluding with the enemy and sent the adjutant away.
• After Spirit Pigeons signaled that the three teleportation formations were secured, Yu Tiange left to oversee the Number Three formation and ordered Tianhan and Northern Mountain to take Jiu Zhi.
• Tianhan and Northern Mountain forced their way into Jiu Zhi’s underground chamber despite the Wang Family’s objections, and Wang Tudou’s scarlet orb suddenly went dark.

Ruyue told Wang Anquan that the Divine Court expected his family to hold North Wind Town’s Teleportation Grand Formation for half an hour while Yu Tiange’s group escaped, leaving Wang Anquan to recognize that the Wang Family had been treated as expendable pawns. Meanwhile, Wang Tudou organized an ambush after his squad discovered that Tianhan and Northern Mountain had taken Jiu Zhi, and Yu Tiange waited at the evacuation array for Ruyue and Cheng Yuan.

• Ruyue told Wang Anquan that he and his people had to defend the formation while she and Cheng Yuan left with Jiu Zhi, and she threatened the safety of his family and Wenping to make him comply.
• Wang Anquan realized Yu Tiange had planned to use the Wang Family as cannon fodder, then ordered the formation revived and prioritized evacuating the prisoners and his family’s elderly, women, and children.
• Tianhan and Northern Mountain rescued Jiu Zhi from the Garrison Prefecture and told Uncle Wang Mountain to reinforce the teleportation formations with the Wang Family and banquet prisoners.
• Wang Tudou organized his squad to track Jiu Zhi’s rescuers and prepare an ambush, while Zhang Tan and San Yue reported their route and the nearby patrol’s positions.
• Yu Tiange reached the evacuation array, sent a Spirit Pigeon toward the Corpse-Mourning Red Pavilion, and waited impatiently for Ruyue and Cheng Yuan.

Wang Tudou’s squad ambushed Tianhan and Northern Mountain while they escorted Jiu Zhi through North Wind Town, killing both and capturing Jiu Zhi. Wang Tudou then used the clash to send Mora toward the Garrison Prefecture, while Yu Tiange and Ren Ye reacted to the fighting and a Spirit Pigeon descended underground.

• Yang Sanhai ambushed Tianhan, but Tianhan broke his attack and pursued Northern Mountain and Jiu Zhi toward the southwest.
• Qin Heizi trapped Tianhan and Northern Mountain in an illusion formation and detonated Soul Shatter Skyburst Stars around Tianhan.
• The squad’s twin cannons attacked Northern Mountain with curses, gu insects, and flying daggers while the Space-Piercing Shuttle brought them into the formation.
• Wang Tudou entered the illusion realm and killed Northern Mountain and Tianhan with two blows, then captured Jiu Zhi and withdrew with his squad.
• Wang Tudou told Mora that the squad had fought on Hero Street while completing a Divine Monk Manor assignment and warned him that the Wang Family might be plotting trouble, prompting Mora to mobilize troops for the Garrison Prefecture.
• Yu Tiange grew increasingly unsettled by the fighting, while Ren Ye told A-Da to watch closely as a Spirit Pigeon phantom flew into the underground level of the Corpse-Mourning Red Pavilion.

Mora suspected the Wang Family’s apparent rebellion concealed a deeper scheme and ordered Feng Yiyang to seize the town’s teleportation formations and surround the Garrison Prefecture. Meanwhile, Ren Ye ambushed Lu Zhennan and Lu Zhenbei to rescue Wang Wenping, and Daoist Chu saw another group of black-clad men approaching the inn where Niu Dali was staying.

• Mora reasoned that Wang Anquan’s renewed rebellion might be a sham and sent Feng Yiyang to take control of the teleportation formations and seal off the Wang Family.
• Yu Tiange set several parts of his plan in motion, while Lu Zhennan and Lu Zhenbei brought Wang Wenping out of hiding and headed toward Teleportation Grand Formation Three.
• Ren Ye used the Ten Thousand Bone Jar, poison, and Blood Soul Flying Daggers to overpower Lu Zhenbei as A-Da and A-Er fought Lu Zhennan.
• Ren Ye and Lu Zhennan exchanged Wang Wenping for Lu Zhenbei, then fled in different directions before the night-patrol Monk Soldiers arrived.
• Daoist Chu saw black-clad men approaching the Courier Inn where Niu Dali was staying and worried that they were also targeting the Little Marquis.

A black-clad force attacked the relay inn to kill Niu Dali, and the Little Marquis escaped after using the Nine Skies God-Slaying Spear to break a Space-Locking Grand Formation. He reunited with Daoist Chu, then learned that Ren Ye’s plan in North Wind Town had collapsed after Yu Tiange took Jiu Zhi and drew attention to the Wang Family.

• More than a hundred black-clad men attacked the relay inn, and their Fifth-Grade leader challenged Niu Dali while the attackers slaughtered his guards.
• Niu Dali ordered his men to unseal the Little Marquis, who revived his spiritual power, summoned the Nine Skies God-Slaying Spear, and broke the Space-Locking Grand Formation.
• The Little Marquis fled north and met Daoist Chu, recognized him through the Fulong Pavilion signal and password, and learned that Daoist Chu and Ren Ye were in North Wind Town.
• The Little Marquis proposed returning to help capture Niu Dali, but Daoist Chu criticized his plan as they prepared to leave.
• Uncle Wang Mountain told Ren Ye that Yu Tiange had taken Jiu Zhi and unidentified attackers had fought him, leaving the Garrison Prefecture exposed to the Monk Soldiers.
• Mora grew concerned about a potential danger and sent a civil official to check whether Lord Zhenyi had retired for the night.

Ren Ye tried to salvage the Wang family's rebellion after Yu Tiange's actions jeopardized their escape, but an urgent summons nearly exposed his soul-possession secret. The Wang family fought the arriving monk soldiers while Ren Ye reached the Inner Manor, where Mora tasked him with confiscating their property and investigating their alleged ties to the Divine Court.

• Ren Ye urged Uncle Wang Mountain to send word to Wang Anquan to escape through a Teleportation Grand Formation, arguing that Wang Anquan had a trump card against Heavenly Radiance Temple.
• When a civil official entered Ren Ye's residence, Ren Ye abandoned control of the female corpse and returned his soul just before the official could discover his body unattended.
• Uncle Wang Mountain sent ten high-grade clansmen and A-Da and A-Er to notify Wang Anquan, but the twelve men encountered patrolling monk soldiers and fighting erupted around North Wind Town.
• Ren Ye covered up his unusual absence by claiming he had been practicing meditative turtle breathing, then hurried to the Inner Manor after Mora summoned him.
• Mora told Ren Ye that Wang Tudou had recovered Jiu Zhi and that the Wang family intended to rebel, then ordered him to search and confiscate the Wangs' property for evidence and possible embezzlement.

Ren Ye went to the Garrison Prefecture to confiscate the Wang family's property, but Mora's forces surrounded the compound and argued over whether to attack. Meanwhile, the Little Marquis rescued Niu Dali from an assassination, and Ren Ye was left unable to interpret Daoist Chu's two-flash signal as the chapter ended.

• Ren Ye arrived at the surrounded Garrison Prefecture and sent Lao Lu to summon Liu Wei and the Mess Hall Army as backup.
• Uncle Wang Mountain refused to surrender until Wang Anquan escaped, while Fulai ordered Feng Yiyang to storm the compound despite the risk to the captured commanders.
• The commanders' trusted officers blocked Feng Yiyang's assault, drawing their weapons and leaving Ren Ye to watch the factions clash.
• Niu Dali was nearly killed by black-clad attackers, but the Little Marquis broke through the Space-Locking Grand Formation and escaped with him.
• Niu Dali recognized one attacker as a Gray-Robed Battalion officer and concluded that Mora had ordered the assassination.
• Daoist Chu sent Ren Ye a signal with two flashes of the Tian Beads, leaving Ren Ye unsure whether he should go to their aid.

Yu Tiange's attempt to flee through the Baoquan Teleportation Grand Formation was interrupted by the Personal Guard Battalion, while Monk Fulai broke the standoff at the Garrison Prefecture and led Ren Ye into its underground Secret Chamber. The chapter ended as Ren Ye recognized Fulai's request for his Spiritual Communication Jade Butterfly as a pretext to kill him and unleashed his blood energy.

• Yu Tiange tried to return for Tianhan and Northern Mountain, but his squad dragged him into the Teleportation Grand Formation as the Personal Guard Battalion attacked and he fought them with his Great Thunder Seal.
• Little Bad King sensed the immense lightning battle, recognized Yu Tiange's strength, and suspected he might be a God System inheritor.
• Monk Fulai revealed his Fifth-Grade strength, subdued Han Li's adjutant, and ordered the other troops to withdraw while Feng Yiyang led the Gray-Robed Battalion into the Garrison Prefecture.
• Ren Ye entered the Garrison Prefecture with Monk Fulai and helped direct the search as the Gray-Robed Battalion captured most of the Wang Family alive.
• Monk Fulai led Ren Ye into the underground Secret Chamber, then asked to borrow his Spiritual Communication Jade Butterfly to contact Mora.
• Ren Ye asked whether Fulai meant to kill him, and his blood energy erupted.

Mora seized control of the Garrison Prefecture’s upheaval and ordered Zhenyi killed, while Ren Ye fought through the monk soldiers without revealing his true identity. Cornered and exhausted, Ren Ye awakened a long-hidden karmic connection as Liu Wei arrived outside with the Mess Hall Army.

• Mora learned that Wang Anquan remained at the No. 1 Teleportation Grand Formation and ordered his men to capture him alive before heading to the Garrison Prefecture to take control of the Wang family.
• Ren Ye used an evil cultivator’s blood essence to conceal his aura and fought Monk Fulai, then escaped the underground chamber by distracting Feng Yiyang and his soldiers with Yin Souls.
• Monk Daoguang, Monk Jingshen, Monk Fulai, and hundreds of monk soldiers pursued Ren Ye, who killed forty-two soldiers but was eventually overwhelmed and fell into the rear hall among the captured Wang family.
• Wang Wenping urged the Wang family to find Lord Spirit Cat or flee to the Warrior Monk Prefecture, while Ren Ye, battered and trapped, awakened a long-hidden karmic connection.
• Liu Wei arrived outside the Garrison Prefecture with more than a thousand Mess Hall Army soldiers and demanded to see Lord Zhenyi.

Liu Wei hesitated outside the Garrison Prefecture while Niu Dali returned to North Wind Town, but Ren Ye was cornered by Mora’s forces and awakened the Divine Monk’s soul within the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp. Ren Ye revealed himself as the Divine Monk’s successor, forcing Mora to kneel and transforming the town’s response to the conflict.

• Liu Wei stopped at Horseway Street after learning that Mora had barred entry to the Garrison Prefecture, and he worried that Monk Zhenyi’s fate could expose him to Arhat Yuyang.
• Niu Dali recovered from the ambush, told the Little Marquis that Mora had plotted against him, and contacted an undisclosed ally with a Spiritual Communication Jade Butterfly.
• Mora learned that rebels had escaped through the Number Three Baquan Teleportation Grand Formation and ordered Monk Fulai to kill Zhenyi and subdue the Wang Family.
• Monk Fulai’s forces surrounded Ren Ye and attacked him, so Ren Ye called on the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp and awakened Mumu’s Divine Soul.
• Mumu’s power filled the Secret Realm with gray mist and manifested as a vast lotus, while the attackers’ Magic Treasures shattered and Mora recognized the Divine Monk’s aura.
• Ren Ye proclaimed himself the Divine Monk’s successor, and the lotus forced Mora to his knees as the monk soldiers saluted and Liu Wei led the Mess Hall Army toward the Garrison Prefecture.

After Ren Ye investigated the massacre at the teleportation formation, the Wall-Breaking Divine Dynasty’s Heavenly Kings decided that Zhenyi was an impostor and should be killed. Zhenyi arrived in Huangling City and struck the Heavenly Kings Hall with the Reincarnation Finger, warning the elders to stay away from Ren Ye.

• After the rebellion failed, Mora reported Zhenyi’s claim to be the Divine Monk’s successor to the Wall-Breaking Divine Dynasty and ordered Daoguang to watch him closely.
• Ren Ye examined the shattered teleportation formation and concluded that Yu Tiange had used its backlash to kill the pursuing Monk Soldiers and escape.
• Ren Ye told Daoist Chu that his inherited methods and connection to the Divine Monk made his claim of being the Divine Monk’s successor defensible.
• The Heavenly Kings debated Zhenyi’s identity, learned that Ren Ye had used Reincarnation Aura, and agreed that Mora should secretly eliminate him.
• Zhenyi reached Huangling City, unleashed the Reincarnation Finger against the Heavenly Kings Hall, and warned the elders not to target Ren Ye.

Ren Ye learned that Heavenly Radiance Temple had made him a deputy investigator in the rebellion case and promoted Yuyang after the Divine Monk acknowledged a faint karmic connection to him. The Heavenly Dao warned that the Divine Monk suspected Ren Ye and might kill him, while Niu Dali invited Ren Ye to join forces against a shared enemy and offered access to Wang Anquan.

• Niu Dali returned to North Wind Town with the Little Marquis, tightened security across the town, and took the Wang Family from Mora's custody.
• Ren Ye learned from Yuyang that he, Niu Dali, and Mora would jointly investigate the rebellion, and that Yuyang had been promoted to the Chan Meditation Pavilion.
• The Heavenly Dao assigned Ren Ye a Heaven's Grace-level punitive task, warning that the Divine Monk had taken a special interest in him and that Ren Ye needed to explain his powers.
• Ren Ye reasoned that Niu Dali wanted to recruit him, then went with Daoist Chu to meet Niu Dali at the Warrior Monk Prefecture.
• Niu Dali proposed that Ren Ye help him take down their shared enemy and offered to let Ren Ye meet and eventually take custody of Wang Anquan.
• Niu Dali introduced the Little Marquis as his sworn younger brother, believing the man had proved trustworthy by saving him in Du Village.

Ren Ye avoided committing to Niu Dali or Mora as they jointly interrogated Wang Anquan, who agreed to reveal the truth only if Master He Hong came. The next day, Ren Ye learned that Niu Dali blamed Mora for an assassination attempt and his brother-in-law’s death, and began to understand why Mora had wanted him killed.

• Ren Ye kept Niu Dali hopeful without agreeing to join forces, while Mora treated him with renewed deference after learning his identity as the Divine Monk's Successor.
• Niu Dali questioned Wang Anquan about missing Star Source and other Divine Court agents, then threatened to publicly humiliate Wang Anquan's wife, He Zhu Zhu.
• Wang Anquan agreed to tell the truth, including who took the Star Source, if Master He Hong came; Niu Dali agreed to summon him and ordered Wang Anquan and his wife held apart from visitors.
• Ren Ye left the Warrior Monk Prefecture with Daoist Chu after declining Mora's invitation.
• The next day, Ren Ye questioned the Little Marquis, who said Niu Dali suspected Mora's faction of the assassination attempt and had vowed to avenge his murdered brother-in-law, Lu Zhao.
• Ren Ye realized he was beginning to understand why Mora had been determined to kill him.

Ren Ye recruited the Little Marquis to help him reach Wang Anquan in the Heavenly Prison, where he investigated the forces behind the attempt on Niu Dali’s life. Ren Ye concluded that Mora planned to frame Niu Dali for the missing Star Source and accused Wang Anquan of secretly possessing it.

• Ren Ye persuaded the Little Marquis to arrange a prison visit, promising him a chance to spend time alone with Dragon Younger Sister, and learned that several Travelers from the Divine Court were also imprisoned.
• The Little Marquis convinced Niu Dali to let him visit his fellow inmates, then secretly brought Ren Ye’s Tomb Void Pearl into the Heavenly Prison.
• Ren Ye slipped into the inner prison and met Wang Anquan, who said he had withheld information about Ren Ye and hoped to save his family by bargaining with He Hong.
• Ren Ye questioned Wang Anquan about the attack on Niu Dali and argued that Mora intended to kill Niu Dali and Zhenyi so Niu Dali would be blamed for the missing Star Source.
• Ren Ye accused Wang Anquan of holding the Star Source himself, and Wang Anquan was left stunned by the revelation.