Recaps

Jiang Yantian repeatedly framed Jiang Chen while using Su Qian’s plan to bring Su Jinrou into his confidence. The banquet ended with Jiang Chen blamed for sleeping with Su Qian and forced into a marriage he rejected.

• Jiang Yantian framed Jiang Chen for damaging the ancestral hall, and Jiang Chen endured punishment while resolving to attend Marquis Yongning’s banquet to protect Su Jinrou.
• Jiang Yantian met Su Jinrou and Su Qian, gave them a pill that caused Su Qian’s face to break out in sores, and learned Su Qian intended to disgrace Su Jinrou at the banquet.
• Jiang Yantian’s servants contaminated the dry well, and Jiang Chen fell into the foul sludge when he returned to investigate it.
• At Marquis Yongning’s Manor, Jiang Yantian exposed Jiang Chen’s soiled clothes and humiliating smell, then plotted with Su Qian to drug Jiang Chen and Su Jinrou.
• Jiang Chen secretly switched the wine cups, but Jiang Yantian took Su Jinrou away and moved the unconscious Jiang Chen and Su Qian to a storeroom.
• Jiang Yantian persuaded Su Jinrou that he had saved her from Jiang Chen’s scheme, then exposed Jiang Chen and Su Qian in the storeroom to the banquet guests.
• Jiang Yantian and Jiang Lei concealed the scandal by claiming servants had been caught together, but afterward Jiang Chen was told he had defiled Su Qian.
• Jiang Chen agreed to marry Su Jinrou before Marquis Su revealed Su Qian as the intended bride, and Jiang Yantian’s Dog Barking Pill made Jiang Chen bark as the families dismissed his objections.

Jiang Yantian manipulated Jiang Chen’s family troubles and arranged a public search for a disciple, then led Jiang Chen through trials designed to humiliate and endanger him. Jiang Chen survived a beast attack with help from three Rogue Cultivators and returned toward the Martial Capital, expecting to face Jiang Yantian again.

• Jiang Yantian recruited Ye Ji as a disciple by fostering his resentment, then gave him demonic cultivation tools and sent him away to make enemies.
• Jiang Yantian framed Jiang Chen for wrecking the ancestral hall and used a staged lightning rescue to deepen the family’s distrust of him.
• Jiang Yantian visited Empress Lü, then persuaded the dynasty to search for someone born at a specified time so he could set up Jiang Chen as his supposed disciple.
• Jiang Chen accepted his marriage to Su Qian, while Jiang Yantian gave gifts and privately questioned Su Jinrou about a marriage proposal involving the Junior Preceptor.
• Jiang Yantian arranged a disciple-selection contest, where Jiang Chen reached the final four and won after using the Spirit-Charging Cauldron.
• Jiang Yantian carried Jiang Chen away and set him a series of trials, including cutting off a finger and enduring false accusations, then left him among attacking exotic beasts.
• Tie Ma, Bing He, and Meng Lai rescued the injured Jiang Chen, who recovered while cultivating and then agreed to travel with them to the Martial Capital.
• Jiang Chen flew toward the Jiang Lineage on his chamber pot spiritual artifact and looked forward to seeing Jiang Yantian after returning.

Jiang Yantian framed Jiang Chen at his wedding and turned the banquet into a public disaster, driving Jiang Chen into conflict with his family and a failed breakthrough. After surviving Heavenly Dao punishment, Jiang Chen returned to Martial Capital as rumors and ridicule spread, while Jiang Yantian drew closer to Jiang Yunyun.

• Jiang Lei and Shen Qiuye punished Jiang Chen after Jiang Yantian staged evidence that he had desecrated the ancestral hall, and Jiang Chen recovered from his injuries by consuming Spiritual Qi-filled larvae.
• Jiang Yantian welcomed Empress Lü and Wei Yu, then Grand Princess Anning arrived seeking a marriage with him and killed Nanny Gui after she spoke ill of him.
• At Jiang Chen and Su Qian’s wedding, Jiang Yantian planted an intimate garment on Jiang Chen, and a guiding spell led the guests to Chujiu, triggering a confrontation with the Marquis of Pacifying the South.
• Jiang Yantian’s scheme sent Jiang Chen flying into the sky during the banquet, where his spinning attack overwhelmed the guests’ defenses before he fell unconscious and ruined the celebration.
• Jiang Lei and his family considered expelling Jiang Chen, while Jiang Chen suspected Jiang Yantian was a regressor and tried to attack him before fleeing to cultivate.
• Jiang Yantian disrupted Jiang Chen’s breakthrough, damaged his forming Golden Core, and made him swear a Blood Oath, but Jiang Chen’s secret vow to kill him brought down Heavenly Dao Divine Punishment.
• After lightning pursued him, Jiang Chen returned to Martial Capital and found people mocking him and Chujiu, while Jiang Yunyun confronted Jiang Yantian and kissed him.

Jiang Yantian destroyed Jiang Chen’s final chance, exposed the Heavenly Dao Will, and left the Jiang Lineage for the Upper Realm with his companions. There, he latched onto Xiao Yi and Sheng Xianxian, leaving with their group as they approached Forbidden Valley.

• Jiang Yantian destroyed Jiang Chen’s fortuitous opportunity, and Jiang Chen killed Su Qian before his erratic behavior led the Jiang Lineage to imprison him.
• Jiang Yantian forced the Heavenly Dao Qi from Jiang Chen, defeated the Heavenly Dao Will, and earned the system’s reward for completing the Plot Tribulation.
• Jiang Yantian showed the Jiang Lineage an illusory account of Jiang Chen’s future, then Jiang Chen stabbed himself and died after Jiang Yantian refused to spare the Jiang sisters.
• Jiang Yantian eliminated the Death Valley Master, gathered his companions, and ascended to the Upper Realm after sending the women through a passage.
• Jiang Yantian covered the Eastern Spirit Kingdom with medicinal rain, found Xiao Yi among those hit by it, and arranged a flying boat crash so he could meet Sheng Xianxian.
• Jiang Yantian claimed Sheng Xianxian had been his wife in a past life, used a portrait and jade pendant to support his story, and repeatedly drew her close while Xiao Yi grew jealous.
• Jiang Yantian pretended he needed Sheng Xianxian’s essence to recover, and Xiao Yi found them kissing before Jiang Yantian announced he would pursue her.
• Jiang Yantian persuaded Sheng Xianxian and the Sacred Heart Sect disciples to let him join their journey, and the group set out toward Forbidden Valley as Xiao Yi watched.