Recaps

Yue Wen learned that Immortal Dew Valley was a fragment of an Azure Dragon’s grotto-heaven that could make spirit plants mature up to a hundred times faster. The rainbow fox made him the valley’s master and left to seek a body, while Yue Wen faced the daunting task of clearing the overgrown land.

• The rainbow fox suggested Yue Wen might eventually join the Demon Race to extend his lifespan, but Yue Wen rejected the idea of becoming a Demon-Blood Human.
• The rainbow fox revealed that Immortal Dew Valley and the Yang Wood Dao Marrow came from an Azure Dragon burial ground beneath River City, and explained that the valley produced vitality-rich Immortal Dew.
• Yue Wen learned that spirit plants could grow up to a hundred times faster in the valley, but the ancient vegetation would take years to clear and could not be burned.
• The rainbow fox refused to clear the land, warned Yue Wen to keep her existence secret, and gave him a leaf that made him master of Immortal Dew Valley.
• The rainbow fox left to find a body and separated Immortal Dew Valley from the fox demon secret realm, leaving Yue Wen to consider how to clear the valley.

After the Fox Demon Lady was destroyed, Yue Wen handed her Secret Realm over to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau to avoid attracting danger and asked for corpse puppets to support his undercover work. Hu Hanyi struck a deal with the Pudu Sect to develop Spiritual Energy Tanks, then learned that Yue Wen had entered the Bureau and abandoned his plan to seize the Secret Realm.

• Perfected One Nagiko returned to the Bureau, while Hu Yunting resolved to cultivate in seclusion before the City Heroes' Battle because he feared losing to Yue Wen again.
• Hu Hanyi rejected the Pudu Sect potion for Hu Yunting, then toured Institute 502 and agreed to partner with the Sect to promote Spiritual Energy Tanks and Medicine Dragons.
• Hu Hanyi ordered his people to watch Yue Wen and seize the Fox Demon's Secret Realm, but changed his mind when he learned Yue Wen had gone to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen gave Perfected One Nagiko the Secret Realm's arcade token, saying it was barren and that handing it over would protect him from people seeking its supposed treasures.
• Yue Wen asked Perfected One Nagiko for the black-silver corpse puppets confiscated from the Northern Jiangsu Nightmare Wraith so he could better maintain his evil-cultivator cover.

Yue Wen traded the Fox Demon’s Secret Realm to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau for Black Silver Corpse Puppets, then put them to work clearing Immortal Dew Valley with Corpse-Driving Talismans. He arranged to seek a skilled Talisman Master and ordered tools for the puppets, while Xing'er forced Big White to train.

• Perfected One Nagiko accepted Yue Wen’s handover of the Secret Realm and considered the exchange beneficial to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen used Corpse-Driving Talismans to make Black Silver Corpse Puppets clear vegetation in Immortal Dew Valley, and decided to equip them with tools and seek more talismans.
• Yue Wen asked Qi Dian about Talisman Masters, then contacted Dong Mengyao, who offered to ask a skilled but eccentric Jiangcheng City Talisman Master for him.
• Xing'er woke up, kicked Big White awake, and made it train while Big White tried to avoid her stronger blows.
• Yue Wen ordered fifteen axes and fifteen sickles made from superior materials from Diamond Granny, charging the order to the Flame Ghost Hall branch hall account.

Yue Wen met Chang Yunguan to commission corpse-driving talismans for his plan to pose as a Demonic Cultivator. Chang said he could reproduce them, but quoted a price close to a million for the first batch and hinted that he had another option.

• Dong Mengyao told Yue Wen that Chang Yunguan had agreed to reproduce talismans and sent him the film-set address.
• Yue Wen found Chang directing a silent, absurdly tragic scene and followed him to a private office to discuss talismans.
• Yue Wen showed Chang a corpse-driving talisman and asked him to keep the commission confidential.
• Chang recognized the talisman as being within his expertise and revealed that he controlled his film crew by threatening them with Thunderbolt Talismans.
• Yue Wen asked about ordering a hundred talismans, and Chang quoted a price close to a million before offering another option.

Yue Wen agreed to invest eight million in Chang Yunguan’s film in exchange for a year of talismans, then returned to the Agency and gave a newspaper reporter a brief interview about his reputation and the City Heroes' Battle. He left Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian to fill in the details and entered the black-and-gold hall to ask Big Dragon for help.

• Chang Yunguan offered Yue Wen a year’s supply of talismans in return for an eight-million investment in his art film.
• Yue Wen accepted the deal and learned that Chang Yunguan planned to shoot a single-take film about a heroine who identified as a hellhound and a male lead who was a showerhead.
• Yue Wen returned to the Agency and met Lin Wanyue, a reporter from the Jiangcheng Cultivation News, who was interviewing him for a City Heroes' Battle preview.
• Yue Wen told Lin Wanyue that justice motivated him to slay evil, his progress came from hard work, and he hoped to show his full strength in the battle.
• Yue Wen left Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian to answer further questions, entered the black-and-gold hall, and asked Big Dragon for help.

Yue Wen bought Da Long’s Dragon Pool Carp-Pincering Art to assess and protect his fortune before a coming battle. After mastering it overnight, he tried to catch Fortune Beasts and found his first attempt empty-handed.

• Yue Wen asked Da Long whether accepting the Fox Demon Lady’s rewards had passed her evil karma onto him, and Da Long said the risk was small because her good deeds had offset most of her evil consequences.
• Da Long sold Yue Wen the Dragon Pool Carp-Pincering Art for 399 Evil-Suppressing Money coins, explaining that it could reveal his fortune and let him store Fortune Beasts to ward off calamity.
• Yue Wen studied the art and wondered whether Suishou’s absorption of the Fox Demon’s blood essence had greatly improved his comprehension.
• The next morning, Yue Wen opened a rift to the Dragon Pool Immortal Realm and used Dragon Breath to lure a Fortune Beast, but his first catch came up empty.

Yue Wen caught only one Fortune Koi, then discovered that a newspaper had portrayed him and the Yue Family Cultivation Office as declaring war on Immortal Sects and prestigious families. He also spotted the Pudu Sect offering a ten-million reward for information about a dark web account tied to Medicine Jar, and began considering contacting the Snake Mountain group again.

• Yue Wen caught one Golden Koi in four attempts and decided to prepare carefully for the night's mission with the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen read Lin Wanyue's article, which quoted the office assistants' exaggerated remarks and announced that the Yue Family Cultivation Office had declared war on Immortal Sects and prestigious families.
• Yue Wen blamed Xing'er and Qi Dian for the article, while Xing'er and Qi Dian each tried to shift responsibility onto the other.
• Yue Wen noticed the Pudu Sect's ten-million reward for information about a dark web account and recognized it as the account Medicine Jar had given him.
• Yue Wen reasoned that the Pudu Sect could not easily trace him and decided that the Snake Mountain group had waited long enough for him to contact them again.

Yue Wen used Fan Baiyan’s plan to target Dai Muhun’s Shuangling Body as a pretext to make Gongsun Yan pay for the operation, while secretly arranging for Supernatural Affairs Bureau experts to pose as hired muscle. Gongsun Yan’s sect master agreed to fund the supposed hires and revealed that the Dao Realm corpse puppet was tied to a mysterious hidden immortal realm.

• Fan Baiyan told Yue Wen to hire two Forging Realm experts to keep Dai Muhun’s other Dharma Bodies away while he destroyed the Shuangling Body.
• Yue Wen realized Gongsun Yan had told Fan Baiyan about the River City Branch’s funds and called him to demand money for the operation.
• Yue Wen persuaded Gongsun Yan to contribute ten million by warning him he would have to answer to Fan Baiyan if the plan failed.
• Yue Wen told Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian that Supernatural Affairs Bureau experts, including Perfected One Nagiko, would pose as the hired muscle and help cover the branch’s missing funds.
• Gongsun Yan told the man in black that Yue Wen was hiring experts to target him, and the man agreed to provide the money and recruit additional people.
• The man in black told Gongsun Yan that the Dao Realm corpse puppet held a great secret connected to a mysterious hidden immortal realm.

Yue Wen brought Nagiko and Tongguang into Fan Baiyan’s plan to confront Dai Muhun, and the two Perfected Ones disguised themselves as silent corpse puppets. At the Unfinished Building, Fan Baiyan met Dai Muhun and heard his offer of a major partnership, presented as a sealed blue pill.

• Yue Wen told Nagiko and Tongguang about the planned negotiations, and they agreed to disguise themselves as corpse puppets and join him.
• Nagiko said she would consider taking Yue Wen as a true disciple after the Ascendant Dragon Assembly if he represented River City.
• Yue Wen met Fan Baiyan at the grove with the disguised Perfected Ones, and Fan Baiyan explained that they would help stop Dai Muhun’s other Dharma Bodies.
• Fan Baiyan and Yue Wen reached the Unfinished Building, where Gongsun Yan reported that Dai Muhun might know the Flame Ghost Hall’s hideout.
• Dai Muhun arrived and defended his past attack on Fan Baiyan, who said their old grudge was over and asked why Dai had come.
• Dai Muhun offered Fan Baiyan a major partnership and showed him a sealed deep-blue pill.

Dai Muhun proposed that the four great demonic sects of Northern Sky Province combine living Soul Pills with Corpse Puppets to create and sell obedient fighting puppets. He lured Fan Baiyan into a formation, and Yue Wen and the two Perfected Ones prepared to attack as the trap closed around them.

• Dai Muhun revealed that his Soul Pills were made by extracting intelligent souls from living people and proposed inserting them into Flame Ghost Hall Corpse Puppets.
• Fan Baiyan considered joining the scheme, and Dai Muhun invited Golden Spear Lang and Mountain-Perching Python to represent Darkflower Ridge and the Poison Snake Gang.
• Dai Muhun assigned the four sects roles in capturing people, refining Soul Pills and Corpse Puppets, and selling the finished puppets.
• Dai Muhun learned that Fan Baiyan no longer possessed Ahei Yan's Dao Realm Corpse Puppet and activated a formation hidden beneath the unfinished building.
• Fan Baiyan called for his disciples to attack, while Yue Wen and the two Perfected Ones prepared to strike; Dai Muhun claimed he already knew about Fan Baiyan's arrangements.

Yue Wen’s plan brought Dai Muhun’s forces and Fan Baiyan’s hired allies into a confrontation, but the two supposed Black Market fighters revealed overwhelming strength and swiftly defeated the enemy experts. Dai Muhun activated the array and called on the twelve fiends as the unfinished building was engulfed in light.

• Dai Muhun confronted Fan Baiyan with Golden Spear Lang and Mountain-Perching Python, while Yue Wen stood with two Corpse Puppets.
• Gongsun Yan revealed that he had betrayed Fan Baiyan’s plan to Dai Muhun, and Yue Wen realized his extortion had helped expose the scheme and bring in extra opponents.
• Dai Muhun explained that the soul pill was meant to let him reclaim the soul inside Fan Baiyan’s Dao Realm Corpse Puppet, then ordered his forces to attack.
• The Soul-Controlling Sect activated the Soul-Slaying Array, but Perfected One Nagiko knocked out Golden Spear Lang and Perfected One Tongguang subdued Mountain-Perching Python.
• Dai Muhun activated the array and ordered the twelve fiends to annihilate the three enemies’ souls.

Yue Wen was trapped with Fan Baiyan inside the Twelve Fiend Soul Realm, where Perfected One Tongguang and Perfected One Nagiko sent him Great Dao projections to fight the Soul-Controlling Sect. Empowered by Kunyu Ridge and Spirit-Nurturing Pivot, Yue Wen overwhelmed Dai Muhun’s giants, leaving Dai Muhun stunned by his disciple’s strength.

• Dai Muhun activated the Twelve Fiend Soul-Slaying Formation, trapping Yue Wen and Fan Baiyan in the Twelve Fiend Soul Realm while the two perfected ones explained the formation and their plan to help.
• Perfected One Tongguang and Perfected One Nagiko sent Great Dao projections into Yue Wen’s consciousness, giving him access to the powers of Kunyu Ridge and Spirit-Nurturing Pivot.
• Dai Muhun revealed that he had brought his Fetal Light body to kill Fan Baiyan, who unsuccessfully tried to persuade him to accept his surrender.
• Yue Wen stopped Fan Baiyan from fighting, seized Gongsun Yan’s banner, and killed him with a single thrust.
• Yue Wen grew to giant size, summoned Shousui as a saber, and used his Great Dao powers to resist the Soul-Controlling Sect’s attacks and drain the giants’ blood essence.
• Yue Wen slaughtered the giants as Fan Baiyan watched in astonishment, and Dai Muhun wondered whether Wen Yan was Flame Ghost Hall’s real big boss.

Yue Wen defeated Dai Muhun and the Soul-Controlling Sect inside the Twelve Fiends Soul Realm, freeing the tortured souls trapped in the Soul-Refining Umbrella. After returning to the unfinished building, Fan Baiyan recognized the two black-market enforcers as Perfected Tongguang and Perfected Nagi of the Jadefall Mystic Sect.

• Yue Wen fought through the Soul-Controlling Sect disciples, shrugging off their attacks and terrifying them with his blade.
• Dai Muhun unleashed the war souls from his Soul-Refining Umbrella, but Yue Wen suppressed the umbrella with Kunyu Ridge and turned the souls against their master.
• Yue Wen struck Dai Muhun with Shousui and killed him, freeing the war souls and leaving them to overwhelm the Soul-Controlling Sect disciples.
• The Twelve Fiends Soul-Slaying Grand Formation collapsed, and Yue Wen rescued Fan Baiyan as the war souls spared them.
• Yue Wen, Fan Baiyan, and Gongsun Yan returned to the unfinished building, where Perfected Tongguang and Perfected Nagi revealed their faces and Fan Baiyan recognized them as members of the Jadefall Mystic Sect.

After the Supernatural Affairs Bureau captured the demonic factions at the Unfinished Building, Yue Wen helped expose the operation and discussed the mysterious Dao Realm corpse puppet with Perfected One Nagiko and Perfected One Tongguang. Meanwhile, Dai Muhun’s surviving bodies planned to make Wen Yan Northern Sky’s common enemy while secretly searching Jiangcheng for the Azure Dragon’s burial ground.

• Fan Baiyan accused Gongsun Yan of being a Supernatural Affairs Bureau mole, but Yue Wen revealed himself as the mole instead.
• Perfected One Nagiko captured Fan Baiyan and Gongsun Yan, while Yue Wen and the perfected ones discussed the unknown Dao Realm corpse puppet and Flame Ghost Hall’s remaining recruits.
• Dai Muhun’s Youjing Body and Shuangling Body reviewed the loss of the Taiguang Body and concluded that Wen Yan had destroyed their operation.
• The Shuangling Body planned to issue an enormous underworld kill order against Wen Yan while secretly investigating the Azure Dragon’s burial ground in Jiangcheng.

Yue Wen arranged for Gongsun Yan’s newly recruited Flame Ghost Hall disciples to list their crimes under the guise of a mission selection. He left nearly forty of the most serious offenders in the custody of the Supernatural Affairs Bureau, where they were to face trial.

• Gongsun Yan summoned the Flame Ghost Hall’s new disciples to an unfinished building for a selection announced by Yue Wen.
• Yue Wen asked the recruits to document their crimes and provide evidence, claiming the most ruthless candidates would join an important mission.
• Gongsun Yan called out nearly forty recruits who had committed serious crimes, and they followed Yue Wen to a heavy armored vehicle.
• Yue Wen convinced the recruits to accept handcuffs and told them the vehicle and restraints were part of their disguise for the mission.
• The vehicle brought the recruits to a prison, where Yue Wen described their upcoming trials as the final procedure before the mission.

Yue Wen turned Flame Ghost Hall’s newcomers over to forced-labor training, earning the investigators’ admiration and rewards for himself and his companions. After receiving a Bigen Fruit, he refined its qi and glimpsed a new insight into the Great Dao as the Demon-Locking Secret Realm’s opening approached.

• Yue Wen persuaded Flame Ghost Hall’s innocent newcomers to accept grueling factory work as training, promising pay for those who endured.
• The Supernatural Affairs Bureau investigators praised Yue Wen’s methods, and Perfected One Tongguang rewarded Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er with Bigen Fruits.
• Perfected One Nagiko offered Qi Dian an Astral Realm cultivation method, and Qi Dian chose the defensive Profound Maitreya Heavenly Net True Scripture.
• Perfected One Nagiko told the group that the Demon-Locking Secret Realm would open in a few days.
• Yue Wen ate his Bigen Fruit and refined its qi, forming a green mountain phantom in his Consciousness Sea and gaining a glimmer of insight.

Qi Dian agreed to return home for New Year's Eve dinner and invited Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er, but a client arrived with a case of stolen gold jewelry. Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er tracked the theft to a monster and contacted the Meow Meow Cult for help.

• Qi Dian agonized over his father's invitation to New Year's Eve dinner, and Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er persuaded him to go home.
• Qi Dian invited Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er to join him, but a client arrived before they could leave and reported gold jewelry stolen from her safe.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er went to inspect the client's home while Qi Dian took Big White to his family.
• Yue Wen found demonic energy by the window and a strand of long golden fur, concluding that a monster had stolen the jewelry.
• Yue Wen messaged the three Meow Meow Cult members, who offered to help in exchange for catnip-filled dumplings.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er followed a lead from the Three Little Ones to a golden-furred Spirit Dog they believed had stolen jewelry. They burst into Qi Dian’s villa to capture it, only to discover they had raided Qi Dian’s home and restrained his father and sister.

• The Three Little Ones found Spring Festival couplets, and Yue Wen explained the zodiac tradition before promising to find them Year of the Horse couplets.
• Yue Wen asked the Three Little Ones to investigate a gold jewelry theft, and the black cat quickly got a photo and an address from an owl contact.
• The Three Little Ones celebrated their reward and hurried toward Qi Dian’s home for New Year’s Eve dinner.
• Qi Dian praised Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Big White to his father and sister while Qi Jingxia introduced her golden Spirit Dog, Little Gold.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er broke into the villa, restrained Qi Father and Qi Jingxia, and tried to catch Little Gold as the suspected thief.
• Qi Dian returned with Big White and revealed that Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er had raided his home; they awkwardly wished his family a happy New Year.

Yue Wen and the others learned that Little Gold was a Golden Pixiu Dog forced to steal gold and silver by a criminal who had kidnapped his mother. They followed Little Gold to the criminal’s hideout, where Yue Wen secretly entered and found a black-robed cultivator watching the Spring Festival Gala.

• Yue Wen explained the mistaken raid to Qi Father, and the group found no stolen valuables near Little Gold’s kennel.
• Lan Zhi identified Little Gold as a Golden Pixiu Dog with fake papers, and Little Gold revealed that a bad man had forced him and his brothers to steal while holding his mother captive.
• Qi Dian understood Little Gold’s gestures, and the group agreed to rescue his mother and bring the criminal to justice.
• Little Gold led Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian to a suburban building, where Yue Wen used his Maze Technique to follow him inside.
• Yue Wen found a black-robed cultivator surrounded by demonic energy, watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Yue Wen and his companions rescued a Golden Pixiu Dog and its mother from a dog trafficker who had forced the pups to steal. The Supernatural Affairs Bureau arrested the trafficker, and Qi Dian asked Captain Lan to let the reunited dogs spend New Year's Eve with his family.

• The Black-Robed Man brought the little Golden Pixiu Dog to visit its imprisoned mother, then shocked both dogs when they tried to reunite.
• Yue Wen bound the Black-Robed Man with Lightning Spirit Snake Bind and struck him with Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist; Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian joined in shocking him until he agreed to confess.
• Lan Zhi arrived with Supernatural Affairs Bureau personnel and heard Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, Qi Dian, and the little Golden Pixiu Dog claim the suspect's artifact had electrocuted him.
• Lan Zhi explained that the Black-Robed Man had abducted the mother Golden Pixiu Dog, sold several pups, and used them to steal money; the Bureau opened the cage and the pup reunited with its mother.
• Qi Dian asked Captain Lan whether the mother and pup could spend New Year's Eve with his family.

Yue Wen and Qi Dian invited Lan Zhi, the Three Little Ones, and the Meow-Meow Cult Leader to celebrate New Year's Eve with Qi Dian's family. The gathering grew even more extraordinary when Wang Miaomiao arrived with a house-sized fox, and everyone joined in making dumplings.

• Lan Zhi agreed to bring Perfected One Nagiko and Qing Cang to Qi Dian's home after her master approved, while Yue Wen invited the Three Little Ones to celebrate New Year with them.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er picked up the Three Little Ones from their basement and brought them to Qi Dian's family villa, where Perfected One Nagiko let the little monsters stay without trouble.
• The Three Little Ones received a message from their Cult Leader, and Yue Wen invited her to join the gathering too.
• Yue Wen and Qi Dian welcomed Wang Miaomiao and discovered she had brought a giant fox she claimed was a cat at heart.
• Qi Dian's family welcomed the unexpected guests, and Zhao Xing'er led everyone in making dumplings together before Yue Wen and the others exchanged New Year's wishes.

Yue Wen comprehended the Spell Suppression mystery from the Bigen Fruit and considered how to use Shousui and his other implements in the City Heroes Tournament. He contacted the beings beneath Snake Mountain through the Demon Emperor Hide and learned that Duan Shousheng claimed to be a disciple of the ancient Sword Dao Academy, whose legacy had become Famous Sword High School.

• Yue Wen used the Green Mountain Qi from the Bigen Fruit to suppress the spirituality in his own Qi Sea, then reasoned that touching an opponent could prevent them from using Supernatural Powers for a few seconds.
• Yue Wen reviewed Shousui’s saber and breastplate forms and chose the Azure-Violet Flying Sword and Cicada Wing Armor as his tournament implements.
• Yue Wen judged that his cultivation and abilities should put him in contention for one of the City Heroes Tournament’s four slots.
• Yue Wen wrote to the beings beneath Snake Mountain through the Demon Emperor Hide, introducing himself as Qimo Tuo and asking about their origins.
• Duan Shousheng replied that he had been a disciple of the Sword Dao Academy, while the other beings joked with him in their message.
• Yue Wen recognized that the Sword Dao Academy belonged to an earlier age and that its inherited legacy had later become Famous Sword High School.

Yue Wen used the Demon Emperor Hide to uncover fragments of Heart-Ripping Woman’s memories about his parents’ expedition into Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb. He learned they escaped, but Heart-Ripping Woman revealed that the Dragon Hall delegation’s mission was a trap and that the Dragon Hall had a traitor.

• Yue Wen asked Medicine Jar whether he knew the Pudu Sect, and Medicine Jar recalled founding it before pain cut off his memories.
• Yue Wen asked whether anyone had met Yue Teng, and Duan Shousheng and Two-Headed Flood Dragon recalled that Yue Teng and his wife entered Snake Mountain with Heart-Ripping Woman’s team.
• Heart-Ripping Woman remembered that Yue Teng and his wife deciphered the tomb’s murals, and she warned that Snake Mountain was a trap built on fabricated history.
• Duan Shousheng stopped Heart-Ripping Woman from revealing more and said she had protected Yue Teng and his wife, allowing them to escape while the rest of the team died.
• Heart-Ripping Woman remembered that the team was a Dragon Hall delegation seeking the Tiger Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance, then declared that there was a traitor and a demon in the Dragon Hall.

Yue Wen learned more about his parents’ connection to the Dragon Hall and decided he needed to succeed at the Ascendant Dragon Assembly to investigate further. He then put his prepared corpse puppets to work clearing land in Immortal Dew Valley so he could start planting spiritual crops.

• Yue Wen learned that the Heart-Ripping Woman had been a Thousand-Scale General and that the Dragon Hall team entering Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb had likely been betrayed, leaving questions about his parents and their disappearance.
• Yue Wen posed as Qimo Tuo while responding to Duan Shousheng and Starving Ghost, telling them to wait at home until he received orders from Lord Purple Throne.
• Yue Wen collected alloy farm tools from Diamond Granny and a hundred Corpse-Driving Talismans from Chang Yunguan, dodging the latter’s pitch for a new artistic idea.
• Yue Wen entered Immortal Dew Valley and attached talismans to the Black Silver Corpse Puppets, assigning them to cut grass and fell trees.
• The corpse puppets cleared a small patch of vegetation, and Yue Wen considered choosing seeds for a spiritual plant.

Yue Wen chose Qilin Melon seeds to cultivate in Immortal Dew Valley, expecting their rapid growth to strengthen him before the City Heroes' Battle. At the Pudu Sect research institute, Hu Hanyi learned about the violent Medicine Dragons and asked Mai Yaode to ensure Yue Wen suffered an accidental death in the tournament arena.

• Yue Wen compared Moon Palace Cotton, Qilin Melon, and Yellow Jade Banana, then bought Qilin Melon seeds and had the Black Silver Corpse Puppet plant them.
• Yue Wen expected the Qilin Melons to mature before the City Heroes' Battle and provide a steady boost to his vital energy and blood.
• A Medicine Dragon at the Pudu Sect research institute tore apart and devoured a Demon Beast while staff watched.
• Mai Yaode told Hu Hanyi that the Spiritual Energy Tank Project could produce five or six late Astral Realm fighters before the City Heroes' Battle.
• Hu Hanyi instructed Mai Yaode to keep the Medicine Dragons from interfering with his son's advancement and revealed that he wanted Yue Wen killed during the tournament.