Recaps

Lu Mingyue discovered that the corpse-wrapping cloth revealed the memories and cultivation arts of the dead, then secretly cultivated and fled after Old Lu turned against her. She reached Cangzhou Prefectural City and began looking for a safe way beyond the pass into the cultivation world.

• Lu Mingyue saw blood-red writing appear on Shen Yulang’s shroud and received his memories and the Qi-Feeding Spirit-Opening Art, which she secretly practiced despite painful side effects.
• Lu Mingyue and Old Lu handled the remains of Shen Yulang and other dead men, while she gained a yellow dog and later witnessed the County Commandant’s forces wipe out the Twin Blades Gang.
• After five years, Lu Mingyue opened her Spirit Mansion, and Old Lu discovered the shroud’s power when he tended the Second Elder’s corpse and received his cultivation arts and spells.
• Old Lu attacked Lu Mingyue for the chance at immortality, but she killed him after Huahua intervened, and the shroud then revealed Old Lu’s memories and his warning not to trust anyone.
• Lu Mingyue left Yangguan City, practiced her spells while traveling through Old Crow Mountain, and reached Yumen City before heading toward Cang Province.
• Lu Mingyue killed Monkey and Brother Dali in Ten-Mile Forest, while a white-robed man identified her as Bai Yunzi’s successor and sent a Spirit Sparrow after her.
• Lu Mingyue reached Cangzhou Prefectural City and learned she needed a permit or escort to cross the border, while a disguised white-robed man followed her to the Dragon Gate Inn.
• Lu Mingyue decided she needed metal- and earth-element spells to advance and arranged for the innkeeper to take her to reputable escort agencies the next morning.

Lu Mingyue survived a rogue-cultivator ambush on the road to Taiping City, then settled there as a corpse collector and advanced her cultivation. After assassins sent by the Zhang Family attacked her, she uncovered their involvement while Bai Zishan’s interest in her remained dangerous and unclear.

• Lu Mingyue joined Meng Hai’s escort convoy with Guo Ding, Yang Qin, and Bai Zishan, then studied Meng Hai’s martial arts during repeated bandit attacks.
• Guo Ding and Yang Qin attacked the convoy with evil cultivation arts, killing five escorts before Bai Zishan killed Guo Ding and Lu Mingyue helped him recover.
• Lu Mingyue read Guo Ding and Yang Qin’s memories, suspected Bai Zishan’s motives, and traveled with a larger caravan to Taiping City.
• Lu Mingyue slipped away from Bai Zishan upon entering Taiping City and secured a job restoring the remains of cultivators killed in duels.
• Lu Mingyue passed the City Patrol Office’s assessment, rented a courtyard, and advanced to the fourth layer of Qi Refining after taking an Origin Condensation Pill.
• Two Mighty Warriors attacked Lu Mingyue at her home, and Bai Zishan intervened before she captured one attacker with vines.
• Lu Mingyue read the dead attackers’ memories and learned the Zhang Family’s young master had ordered them to kill her.
• Lu Mingyue reported the bodies to the City Patrol Office while Bai Zishan revealed his ninth-level Qi Refining strength to the Zhang Family’s young master and warned him not to interfere.