Recaps

After his failed return home and He Yan’s betrayal, Gu Yi survived with Lin Yuan inside a barrier through joint cultivation, then left him after helping him break through. Three years later, Gu Yi lived as Ye Yiyi while Lin Yuan searched for him, and their paths crossed before the Orthodox-Demonic Friendship Conference.

• Gu Yi’s transport portal failed, and he self-destructed after He Yan poisoned and stabbed him before awakening inside a barrier with Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan sustained Gu Yi through soul cultivation, helped repair his meridians, and offered to become his cultivation partner.
• Gu Yi took the final strike of Lin Yuan’s tribulation, carried him to safety, and left before Lin Yuan awoke with his sight restored.
• Lin Yuan searched for Gu Yi, confronted He Yan, and punished Chu Ping for blinding him and throwing him from Heaven-Reaching Peak.
• Yezi drugged Gu Yi and left him her identity, and Gu Yi became Wen Daochen’s disciple at the Tianmu Sect as Ye Yiyi.
• Gu Yi recovered over three years and prepared to attend the conference to retrieve his Life Lamp, while Lin Yuan’s fixation on him disrupted his cultivation.
• Lin Yuan recognized Gu Yi’s resemblance in Ye Yiyi’s portrait and traveled to the conference, where Gu Yi tried to avoid him and Yezi.
• Lin Yuan stopped Gu Yi and examined his spiritual energy, but Xie Wenyun and Jiang Lingzhou intervened, and Lin Yuan apologized without exposing Gu Yi’s identity.

Gu Yi and his companions entered the secret realm, where a slaughter and a series of dangerous encounters forced Gu Yi to reveal himself to Lin Yuan and confront Lin Yuan’s inner demon. After they reunited with the others and fought through the vine-covered cliffs, Lin Yuan left to search for Gu Yi’s Life Lamp while the group remained caught in the mist’s illusions.

• Lin Yuan suspected Ye Yiyi might be Gu Yi, but Gu Yi secretly used Lin Yuan’s blood to make the Chaos Immortal Grass test fail, and Lin Yuan accepted the result.
• During the Illusory Beast Purgatory hunt, Gu Yi’s group faced rumors and an ambush that killed A Ke and many other disciples, while He Yan’s plot became apparent.
• Gu Yi knocked Chu Jing unconscious, exposing the jade pendant that concealed his aura, and Lin Yuan recognized and kissed him before succumbing to his inner demon.
• Gu Yi entered Lin Yuan’s sea of consciousness and removed the inner demon, then fled while Lin Yuan slept and reunited with Mu Yang’s group.
• Xie Wenyun and Jiang Lingzhou fell from a vine-covered cliff, and Gu Yi and Lin Yuan searched for them while fighting Chu Jing’s followers and rescuing one another from the vines.
• Love Vine poison made Gu Yi and Lin Yuan hallucinate and kiss, and Gu Yi later faced his Golden Core tribulation as Lin Yuan arrived beside him.
• Gu Yi found Xie Wenyun and Jiang Lingzhou, helped them through the cliff’s dangers, and protected Jiang Lingzhou from the vine demoness’s poisonous thorn.
• Gu Yi ended the group’s mist-induced illusions, including Lin Yuan’s, and Lin Yuan angrily said he had almost caught the person he was chasing.