Recaps

Liu Ziyan and Lin Mo practiced dual cultivation for three days, stabilizing her Void Refinement realm and advancing him to the peak of Qi Refining. Afterward, Liu Ziyan reconsidered Lin Mo’s value and wondered about the secret behind his rapid growth.

• Liu Ziyan asked Lin Mo whether he hated her, and he credited her past favor with saving his life from abuse in the Maidservant Department.
• Liu Ziyan allowed Lin Mo to cross the line again but warned him to remember his place as a lackey.
• Liu Ziyan and Lin Mo practiced dual cultivation, and their spiritual power strengthened as his cultivation rose.
• After three days, Liu Ziyan found that her Void Refinement realm had fully stabilized and considered the possibility of reaching Mahayana.
• Liu Ziyan saw that Lin Mo had reached the peak of Qi Refining and suspected he was hiding a secret behind his rapid progress.

After reaching perfection in the Qi refining period, Lin Mo received Liu Ziyan’s Soul-Devouring Saber Art and instructions to monitor the Purple Heaven Palace while she was away. He went to the Spirit Treasure Hall to buy a saber, unaware that someone was watching him from the shadows.

• Lin Mo reached perfection in the Qi refining period and learned that Liu Ziyan would leave for a while, instructing him to record everyone who visited the Purple Heaven Palace.
• Liu Ziyan gave Lin Mo the Soul-Devouring Saber Art, told him to seek Hong Yue if he faced trouble, and then left.
• Lin Mo found that the diagrams for the first move, Soul Hook, became clear to him as soon as he looked at them.
• Lin Mo went to the Spirit Treasure Hall marketplace and showed the shop disciple a thousand spirit stones to request saber-type magical treasures.
• Lin Mo examined three low-grade spirit-tier sabers, then asked to see a black saber hanging on the wall.
• A pair of savage eyes watched Lin Mo from a concealed corner as he shopped.

Lin Mo bought the Black Blade, but Yun Fei ambushed him on the way back to steal his spirit stones and carry out Zhou Ze's contract to kill him. Lin Mo blocked her first attack with his new saber, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lin Mo bought the Black Blade for 4,500 spirit stones after admiring its appearance and learning about its deadly effect.
• Yun Fei stopped Lin Mo on a secluded road and demanded his spirit stones, revealing that Zhou Ze had told her about the 1,800 stones and paid her 500 to kill him.
• Lin Mo handed Yun Fei the 1,800 spirit stones and offered to pay double for her to kill Zhou Ze, but she decided to kill Lin Mo and then take his remaining wealth.
• Yun Fei attacked Lin Mo with her dagger, and he blocked the fatal strike with the Black Blade, though the impact sent him flying.

Lin Mo survived Yun Fei’s attempt to kill him and escaped to the Purple Heaven Palace, where he decided to kill Zhou Ze that night. Meanwhile, Zhou Ze accepted bribes from Little Wang while implying that an unexpected development could still derail his promotion.

• Yun Fei bound Lin Mo with a freezing spiritual chain, but his Pure Yang Sacred Body neutralized her attack, allowing him to flee.
• Lin Mo reached the Martial Arts Plaza near the Purple Heaven Palace, where Yun Fei abandoned her pursuit to avoid the Enforcement Hall’s attention.
• After returning to his hut, Lin Mo resolved to kill Zhou Ze before Zhou Ze learned Yun Fei had failed.
• Little Wang bribed Zhou Ze for the deputy steward position, and Zhou Ze suggested the promotion was likely while privately leaving himself room to deny it.

Lin Mo killed Zhou Ze and took his spirit stones, then the Enforcement Hall quickly closed the case. Shangguan Wuqing offered Lin Mo the vacant steward position, but he declined because the duties would hinder his cultivation.

• Lin Mo ambushed Zhou Ze in his room, killed him, and looted his Storage Rings.
• Lin Mo counted 8,500 spirit stones among Zhou Ze's assets and believed the Enforcement Hall would not trace the murder to him.
• The Enforcement Hall questioned the two female Servants, found no suspect, and hastily closed the case.
• Shangguan Wuqing told Lin Mo she suspected he had killed Zhou Ze but was not investigating him.
• Shangguan Wuqing offered Lin Mo the Maidservant Department steward position, and Lin Mo politely refused.

After recovering from his wounds, Lin Mo broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm and mastered the first move of the Soul-Devouring Saber Art. He decided to buy an aura-concealing technique before cleaning the Purple Heaven Palace, leaving Liu Ziyan’s order overdue.

• Shangguan Wuqing warned Lin Mo to be careful after he explained why he had killed Zhou Ze, and Lin Mo recuperated in seclusion.
• After more than a month of cultivation, Lin Mo broke through to early-stage Foundation Establishment and regained some of his youthful appearance.
• Lin Mo practiced the first move of the Soul-Devouring Saber Art, Soul Hook, and mastered it after five days.
• Lin Mo realized Soul Hook could threaten cultivators around his level and felt more confident about facing Yun Fei again.
• Lin Mo decided to look for an aura-concealing technique at the Sect Trading Market before cleaning the Purple Heaven Palace, despite Liu Ziyan’s overdue instruction.

Lin Mo bought a Breath-Concealing Art at the Sect Trading Market, where Zhuiming confronted Shangguan Wuqing after she ignored his advances to watch Lin Mo. Su Yu sensed that Lin Mo had reached Foundation Establishment and grew suspicious as Lin Mo left, puzzled by Zhuiming’s hostility.

• Zhuiming invited Shangguan Wuqing to help him claim a scarlet flame flower, but she ignored him to watch Lin Mo enter the market.
• Zhuiming confronted Shangguan Wuqing about her interest in Lin Mo, and she rejected his advances before leaving him behind.
• Lin Mo bought the Breath-Concealing Art for seven hundred spirit stones and noticed Zhuiming glaring at him as he left.
• Su Yu sensed that Lin Mo had reached Foundation Establishment and wondered how he had advanced so quickly from the second level of Qi Refining.
• Lin Mo decided to ask Shangguan Wuqing about Zhuiming’s hostility and clear up any possible misunderstanding.

Lin Mo learned that Grand Elder Hong Yue suspected Saintess Su Yu of being the sect’s mole and asked him to use the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art as bait. Hong Yue agreed to reward him with a low-grade Heaven-Tier Treasure if he completed the dangerous task.

• Lin Mo mastered the Breath-Concealing Art and began cleaning the Purple Heaven Palace.
• Hong Yue confronted Lin Mo and confirmed that he was cultivating the Yang Volume of the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.
• Hong Yue asked Lin Mo to act as bait for someone seeking the art, and Lin Mo identified Su Yu as her suspect.
• Lin Mo told Hong Yue what he had witnessed about Su Yu, strengthening Hong Yue’s suspicion that the Saintess was the mole.
• Lin Mo asked for a Heaven-Tier Treasure and thirty thousand spirit stones as his reward, and Hong Yue agreed to provide a low-grade Heaven-Tier Treasure.

Lin Mo received a deposit from Hong Yue for a blade-type magical treasure before Su Yu arrived looking for Liu Ziyan. After Lin Mo revealed the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art’s drawback, Su Yu left, and Lin Mo concluded that she was probably a spy seeking the art.

• Hong Yue agreed to Lin Mo’s request for a blade-type magical treasure and paid him a ten-thousand-spirit-stone deposit before suddenly disappearing.
• Su Yu arrived at Purple Heaven Palace to see Liu Ziyan and asked Lin Mo how he had advanced from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment so quickly.
• Lin Mo told Su Yu that he practiced the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art, and Su Yu angrily asked why Liu Ziyan had let him cultivate it but not her.
• Lin Mo explained that the art bound itself to the first person’s yang energy and caused backlash if its practitioner later cultivated with someone else.
• Su Yu regained her innocent smile, left, and asked Lin Mo to tell her when Liu Ziyan returned to Purple Cloud Palace.
• Lin Mo suspected Su Yu was a spy who had come to obtain the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art.

Lin Mo suspected Saintess Su Yu of being a spy and planned to catch her contacting someone outside, while deciding to seek Shangguan Wuqing’s help. At the Enforcement Hall, Shangguan Wuqing stopped Zhuiming from driving Lin Mo away when he came to see her.

• Lin Mo reasoned that the Yin Yang Sect was the likeliest source of Su Yu’s suspected spying and resolved to gather evidence while improving his cultivation and staying alert.
• Lin Mo cleaned the Purple Heaven Palace and went to find Shangguan Wuqing instead of approaching Grand Elder Hong Yue.
• Zhuiming apologized to Shangguan Wuqing with a scarlet flame flower, and she accepted his apology but refused the gift.
• An enforcement disciple reported that an old servant was asking for Shangguan Wuqing, and she went outside to meet him.
• Zhuiming recognized Lin Mo and moved to drive him away, but Shangguan Wuqing stopped him, saying Lin Mo had come to see her.

Lin Mo sought Shangguan Wuqing’s protection from someone powerful who was targeting him, while also worrying that Zhuiming’s hostility would put him in danger. Shangguan Wuqing offered to hide him at her residence, then arranged for a junior sister to guard the office so she and Lin Mo could be alone.

• Lin Mo tried to leave when he saw Zhuiming arrive, but Zhuiming stopped him and Shangguan Wuqing invited him into her office.
• Lin Mo asked Shangguan Wuqing to protect him from a powerful person who had targeted him, explaining that Liu Ziyan was away and his hut was no longer safe.
• Shangguan Wuqing offered to let Lin Mo stay at her residence and acknowledged that Zhuiming’s hostility toward him was her responsibility.
• Lin Mo warned that Zhuiming might follow them, so Shangguan Wuqing planned to keep Zhuiming occupied while Lin Mo went ahead to her residence.
• Shangguan Wuqing told a junior sister to guard the office and keep anyone from entering, then returned to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo and Shangguan Wuqing resumed their secret relationship, first cultivating together at the squad office and later meeting at her residence. Lin Mo reached her home safely, unaware that someone from the Martial Arts Plaza had followed him.

• Lin Mo and Shangguan Wuqing spent over four hours dual cultivating in the reception room, improving her cultivation before arranging to meet again after dark.
• Lin Mo went to the Martial Arts Plaza to wait until night, while an unseen female disciple watched him and followed after he left.
• Shangguan Wuqing kept Zhuiming occupied while resolving a dispute between two Inner Sect Disciples, then returned to her residence.
• Lin Mo told Shangguan Wuqing he had noticed no one following him, though he could not be certain, and the two resumed their private intimacy.
• Shangguan Wuqing said she felt no affection for Zhuiming and preferred Lin Mo, then began undressing at his prompting.

Zhuiming watched Shangguan Wuqing’s residence, convinced Lin Mo had gone there, while Shangguan Wuqing and Lin Mo continued their dual cultivation inside. After Shangguan Wuqing broke through to middle golden core, she asked Lin Mo about his past and suggested he become an Inner Sect Disciple.

• Zhuiming went to Shangguan Wuqing’s home after an enforcement disciple swore Lin Mo had entered, but Shangguan Wuqing ignored his knocking while cultivating with Lin Mo.
• Zhuiming waited outside until the next day, then ordered the enforcement disciple to watch Shangguan Wuqing’s home and kill Lin Mo when he appeared.
• Shangguan Wuqing broke through to middle golden core during her dual cultivation with Lin Mo, while Lin Mo’s spiritual power also increased.
• Lin Mo told Shangguan Wuqing that his poor parents had sold him to the First Saint Sect because he was the youngest and least talented of their children.
• Shangguan Wuqing asked whether Lin Mo hated his parents, then suggested he take the Inner Sect Disciple assessment.

Lin Mo considered becoming an Inner Sect Disciple and began cultivating at Shangguan Wuqing’s home, where an Enforcement Hall disciple attacked him. Shangguan Wuqing realized Zhuiming might have sent the intruder and rushed back, confronting him before she could learn Lin Mo’s fate.

• Lin Mo told Shangguan Wuqing he would join the Enforcement Hall if Liu Ziyan approved his Inner Sect Disciple examination.
• After Shangguan Wuqing left, Lin Mo cultivated and attempted to break through to the foundation establishment middle stage.
• An Enforcement Hall disciple entered Shangguan Wuqing’s home and attacked Lin Mo, claiming he had provoked someone he should not have.
• Shangguan Wuqing met Zhuiming outside the Vermilion Bird Office and sensed something was wrong when he invited her to spar.
• Shangguan Wuqing hurried home, but Zhuiming blocked her, so she warned him that her master would punish him if his people had broken into her home.

Shangguan Wuqing discovered that Lin Mo had disappeared after defeating Zhu Fan, while Lin Mo collapsed from his injuries and was rescued by Grand Elder Hong Yue. Hong Yue revealed that she had saved him because she still needed him to lure out the Saintess.

• Shangguan Wuqing found Zhu Fan gravely wounded outside her damaged home and could not find Lin Mo inside.
• Shangguan Wuqing slapped Zhuiming and cut ties with him for sending Zhu Fan to force his way into her home.
• Lin Mo fled to a remote stream, reflected on his lack of combat experience, and lost consciousness from his injuries.
• Lin Mo woke in an elegant room and realized someone had rescued him.
• Grand Elder Hong Yue entered, told Lin Mo she had saved him, and reminded him that she needed him to lure out the Saintess.

Lin Mo recovered from his injuries in a secluded cave after Hong Yue sent him back to the sect, while hiding that she had rescued him. He learned that Zhuiming had been punished and sent away, leaving him to focus on surviving Su Yu’s schemes.

• Hong Yue questioned Lin Mo about his rapid recovery, then ordered him to return to the sect and warned that she would not save him again without proof that Su Yu was a spy.
• Lin Mo hid in a nearby cave and used the Yin-Yang Evil Demon Art and the Clear Spirit Pill’s lingering effects to heal for more than half a month.
• Shangguan Wuqing found Lin Mo and rushed into his arms, relieved that he was safe.
• Lin Mo recounted what had happened but concealed Hong Yue’s involvement.
• Shangguan Wuqing told Lin Mo that her master had punished Zhuiming and sent him away from the sect to gain experience.

After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Lin Mo repeatedly fought a shadow in a mysterious state until he defeated it and gained extensive combat experience. Grand Elder Hong Yue then appeared and told him he had to show himself to Saintess Su Yu occasionally so their plan could continue.

• Lin Mo returned with Shangguan Wuqing to her residence, and after two days and nights together, he used three thousand spirit stones to break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Lin Mo entered a mysterious state and repeatedly fought a shadow wielding a Black Blade, learning from each defeat.
• Lin Mo adapted to the shadow's varied tactics and finally defeated it, then awoke and named his new ability the Meditative Cultivation Method.
• Grand Elder Hong Yue appeared and warned Lin Mo that hiding away would make Saintess Su Yu suspect him and disrupt their plan.
• Hong Yue told Lin Mo he would have to show himself in front of the Saintess from time to time.

Lin Mo returned to the sect and met Su Yu, who questioned him about his disappearance and his connection to Shangguan Wuqing. He fed Su Yu a fabricated account, leaving her to believe Shangguan Wuqing had invited him for dual cultivation.

• Hong Yue saw Lin Mo's rapid cultivation and self-healing as signs that he might be a Child of Fortune, and decided to investigate him.
• Lin Mo encountered Su Yu on the way back to Purple Heaven Palace, and she pretended to be relieved that he was alive.
• Lin Mo told Su Yu that he had hidden in a cave to recover and returned after Shangguan Wuqing found him and Zhuiming left to train.
• Su Yu asked about Lin Mo's relationship with Shangguan Wuqing, and Lin Mo claimed Shangguan Wuqing had invited him home for dual cultivation.
• Su Yu blushed and found Lin Mo's explanation plausible because Zhuiming liked Shangguan Wuqing.

Su Yu persuaded Dugu Liuli to arrest Lin Mo for the Enforcement Hall disciple’s murder, while Lin Mo sensed Zhuiming’s watcher nearby and returned to the Purple Heaven Palace hut. That night, Dugu Liuli arrived with enforcement disciples and surrounded him.

• Su Yu asked Lin Mo to keep his story about Zhuiming and Shangguan Wuqing secret, then went to the White Tiger Squad office.
• Su Yu told Dugu Liuli that Lin Mo had returned and urged her to arrest him for killing an Enforcement Hall disciple.
• Dugu Liuli agreed to take a squad to Lin Mo’s hut, intending to leave the decision about his punishment to Su Yu.
• Lin Mo sensed a dangerous watcher, returned to the Purple Heaven Palace, and kept alert through the night.
• Dugu Liuli and several Enforcement Hall disciples kicked open Lin Mo’s hut door and surrounded him.

Dugu Liuli arrested Lin Mo over Zhu Fan’s death and tried to interrogate him at the White Tiger Squad Office. After her Charm Art failed and she threatened to expose his relationship with Shangguan Wuqing, she offered to spare him if he abandoned Shangguan Wuqing and became her dual cultivation partner, leaving Lin Mo to wonder whether the two captains were rivals.

• Dugu Liuli accused Lin Mo of killing Zhu Fan and took him to the White Tiger Squad Office despite his request to see Shangguan Wuqing.
• Dugu Liuli used her Charm Art on Lin Mo, but his pure yang energy broke her influence before she learned anything useful.
• Dugu Liuli guessed that Lin Mo and Shangguan Wuqing were dual cultivation partners and threatened to spread the news, so Lin Mo admitted she was right.
• Dugu Liuli offered to spare Lin Mo if he cut ties with Shangguan Wuqing and practiced dual cultivation with her.
• Lin Mo asked Dugu Liuli whether she and Shangguan Wuqing had a grudge, while wondering why he had to choose between them.

Dugu Liuli admitted her jealousy of Shangguan Wuqing and tried to make Lin Mo choose between her and Wuqing. Shangguan Wuqing arrived at the interrogation room and secured Lin Mo’s release, while Dugu Liuli hinted that she knew about their relationship.

• Dugu Liuli told Lin Mo she wanted to compete with Shangguan Wuqing because Wuqing received attention from the Enforcement Hall disciples.
• Dugu Liuli demanded that Lin Mo choose between being sent to the Tower of Self-Cultivation and Self-Immolation or cutting off contact with Shangguan Wuqing, but Lin Mo questioned whether she could protect him.
• Shangguan Wuqing entered the interrogation room with members of the White Tiger Squad and challenged Dugu Liuli’s arrest of Lin Mo.
• Dugu Liuli admitted she had no evidence against Lin Mo, and Shangguan Wuqing ordered his release and untied him.
• After Lin Mo left, Dugu Liuli told Shangguan Wuqing she knew about their relationship and mocked her for supposedly falling for an old servant.

Lin Mo suspected Saintess Su Yu had helped Dugu Liuli target him, then asked Shangguan Wuqing to help lure out the assassin watching him. Shangguan Wuqing killed Liu Tie when he attacked Lin Mo, and Lin Mo ended by playfully calling her Little Qingqing.

• Lin Mo asked Shangguan Wuqing whether the Enforcement Hall could make arrests near the Purple Heaven Palace and concluded that someone had told Dugu Liuli the Sect Leader was away.
• Lin Mo whispered a request to Shangguan Wuqing, then went alone to a secluded valley and challenged the hidden watcher to appear.
• After waiting four hours, Lin Mo began returning to the sect gates, and Liu Tie blocked his path and admitted that Azure Dragon Squad Captain Zhuiming had sent him.
• Liu Tie attacked Lin Mo, but Shangguan Wuqing struck him through the heart from behind and destroyed him with her spiritual power.
• Lin Mo thanked Shangguan Wuqing, then corrected his form of address to Little Qingqing after she teased him.

After Shangguan Wuqing was sent away from the sect, Dugu Liuli arrested Lin Mo again over Zhu Fan’s case and confronted him in the White Tiger Squad’s interrogation room. Lin Mo warned her that her jealousy of Shangguan Wuqing could lead to a heart demon.

• Lin Mo and Shangguan Wuqing discussed Liu Tie’s disappearance, while an unseen watcher observed them.
• Su Meiyu confronted Shangguan Wuqing about Liu Tie’s disappearance and ordered her to lead the Vermilion Bird Squad to the No. 9 mineral vein.
• Shangguan Wuqing suspected someone was manipulating events to separate her from Lin Mo, but she left for the mineral vein.
• Lin Mo’s foreboding drove him out of the wooden hut, where Dugu Liuli and Enforcement Hall disciples arrested him again over Zhu Fan’s case.
• Dugu Liuli took Lin Mo to the White Tiger Squad’s interrogation room and told him not to expect Shangguan Wuqing to rescue him.
• Lin Mo warned Dugu Liuli that her jealousy of Shangguan Wuqing could give her a heart demon.

Lin Mo helped Dugu Liuli confront her jealousy of Shangguan Wuqing, then the two practiced dual cultivation for three days. Dugu Liuli revealed that Shangguan Wuqing had gone to the sect's Ninth Mine Vein, leaving Lin Mo to suspect Saintess Su Yu was maneuvering against him.

• Lin Mo warned Dugu Liuli that envy could become an inner demon and urged her to improve herself instead of competing with Shangguan Wuqing.
• Dugu Liuli took Lin Mo to her residence and proposed dual cultivation to repay him for his advice.
• Lin Mo and Dugu Liuli practiced dual cultivation for three days, raising their cultivation before Dugu Liuli reached her limit.
• Lin Mo coaxed Dugu Liuli into revealing that Shangguan Wuqing had been sent to the sect's Ninth Mine Vein to deal with incursions from the Yin Yang Sect.
• Lin Mo suspected Saintess Su Yu had arranged Dugu Liuli's attempt to arrest him and worried that she could use her authority to send more powerful opponents.
• Dugu Liuli asked Lin Mo why he seemed to care so much about Shangguan Wuqing.

Lin Mo focused on cultivation after leaving Dugu Liuli, while Su Yu abandoned her plan to have him tried and began considering whether she could recruit him. That night, Su Yu visited Lin Mo and offered to help him escape the First Saint Sect, but he remained suspicious of her intentions.

• Lin Mo spent several hours with Dugu Liuli, then returned to his hut and decided to cultivate toward the late stage of foundation establishment.
• Seven days later, Dugu Liuli told Su Yu that she had not tried Lin Mo because there was insufficient evidence, and privately resolved to help him.
• Su Yu worried that Shangguan Wuqing’s return could expose her identity as an infiltrator, then considered turning Lin Mo to her side.
• Su Yu visited Lin Mo’s hut at night and spoke with him about servant disciples’ lack of rights and the possibility of escaping the sect.
• Su Yu offered to help Lin Mo leave the First Saint Sect without anyone finding out, while Lin Mo questioned her motives.