Recaps

Zhou Muzhi used the Myriad Things Deduction Board to delay a deadly curse, learn incense-making, and break through the Blood Gate while investigating the vengeful spirit pursuing him. His investigation led to Qian Zhen’s gambling house, and he prepared to confront the Qian Family as Li Jingfei asked whom he had offended.

• Zhou Muzhi discovered his three-day life-lock curse and used deduction points from old objects to seal it temporarily with Nine Heavens Profound Intent.
• Zhou Muzhi became Li Jingfei’s disciple and obtained Half-Immortal Xu’s incense-making booklet after promising to avenge his slaughtered school.
• Zhou Muzhi improved the incense formulas and transformed a Blood-Coagulating Pill into a Heavenly Blood Treasure Pill to accelerate his martial training.
• Zhou Muzhi and Lao Xu rescued Old Man Wang's granddaughter and killed Brother Gui and his henchmen after learning that Young Master Qian had taken the woman connected to the deaths.
• Zhou Muzhi opened the Blood Gate with Sudden Enlightenment, drove away the interfering spirit, and learned from Sun Yao that Ma Jin and Hua Kai had dragged the woman away.
• Zhou Muzhi gathered the incense ingredients, learned how a spirit’s possession could help restrain it, and arranged for Lao Xu to strengthen himself before confronting the Qian Family.
• Zhou Muzhi and Lao Xu defeated Hua Kai, whose interrogation exposed the women imprisoned beneath the Covered Rain Gambling House and Qian Zhen’s plans against people connected to the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Muzhi ordered preparations against the gambling house, sent Old Xu to protect Zhou Buren, and received Li Jingfei’s cultivation book before Li Jingfei questioned him about his enemies.

Zhou Muzhi strengthened his cultivation, subdued Sister Yuan as A-Xiang, and struck back against Qian Zhen’s forces while the Zhou Family faced mounting pressure. With Li Jingfei overseeing their coming confrontation, Zhou Muzhi set out to find Qian Zhen and kill him under cover of darkness.

• Zhou Muzhi gained Li Jingfei’s support against the Qian Family, trained in martial arts, and began seeking the ghost’s memories to help Half-Immortal Xu make ghost-controlling incense.
• After White Face’s men attacked the Zhou Family, Zhou Muzhi killed their leaders and joined Zhou Buren in bringing the case to the authorities.
• Zhou Muzhi found Sister Yuan’s embroidered shoes, helped Third Master shelter the children, and worked with Half-Immortal Xu to make the incense.
• Zhou Muzhi burned Qian Zhen’s gambling house, killed Rain Wyrm, and later used the Ghost-Controlling Incense to subdue the vengeful spirit, naming her A-Xiang.
• At a settlement banquet, Zhou Buren secured a ruling against the Hall of Outstanding Heroes, while Zhou Muzhi captured seven of its men and used them to summon the spirit.
• Zhou Muzhi gained Steady Mountain, told Li Jingfei he had gathered a second qi, and asked his master to oversee his final confrontation with Qian Zhen.
• After Qian Zhen emerged from seclusion and moved against the Zhou Family, Zhou Muzhi questioned men searching for his family’s associates and set out to locate Qian Zhen with A-Xiang’s help.