Recaps

Lu Wu joined the campaign against the Ghost Tyrant to study Sha Yuan and its death energy, while Mo Fan was forced into the fighting and hoped to collect undead souls. The teams confronted the undead beyond the city walls, where Lu Wu began testing the enemies and their death energy for possible sacrifices.

• Mo Fan refused to join the operation, but Zhu Meng pushed him into Demon Man's formation and threatened to have him expelled from Pearl Academy if he fled.
• Lu Wu joined the punitive campaign to kill the Ghost Tyrant and observe Sha Yuan, wondering whether its dense death energy could form crystals suitable for sacrifice.
• The mages left the city walls and met a strengthened tide of undead as the Ghost Tyrant's ministers and burial retinues rallied around it.
• A scar-faced mage and Green Chili led the charge against the undead, while Short Man introduced himself to Lu Wu and learned that Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue were his wives.
• Mo Fan stayed near Lu Wu to let Little Loach collect undead souls, and Lu Wu burned an ambusher whose Soul Remnant was drawn toward Mo Fan's vessel.

Lu Wu led the advancing mages against the undead and stunned the assembled force by clearing a wide path with a single Fierce Fist. As the battle continued, he urged everyone to conserve mana while collecting Soul Remnants and Soul Essences from the fallen undead.

• Mo Fan and a short man discussed the Undead Ranking and mocked the rotting corpses as they fought.
• Lu Wu pushed to the front and blasted more than a hundred rotting corpses to ash with Fierce Fist - Nirvana Fire, Heaven Blast.
• The scar-faced man praised Lu Wu, and the mages surged forward with renewed fighting spirit.
• Mu Nujiao told Zhou Min to conserve her mana, while Lu Xu praised Lu Wu from atop the city wall.
• Lu Wu and Demon Man warned the advancing force not to waste mana as Lu Wu gathered Soul Remnants and Soul Essences from the undead.

Lu Wu and the group fought their way through the undead, but his attacks awakened an armored Corpse General that advanced into a Corpse Minister. Lu Wu activated his Nirvana Domain and used space magic to trap it as he prepared to attack.

• Lu Wu killed a Wrapped Corpse General with Nirvana Fire: Earth Fiend, then blasted through the rotting corpses as the group advanced.
• Lu Wu's explosions collapsed an underground tomb and awakened an armored Corpse General that was nearing advancement.
• Mo Fan struck the armored Corpse General with Thunderbolt: Thousand Weight: Sky Strike, but its armor withstood the lightning.
• Lu Wu attacked with Heavenly Flame Funeral: Nirvana Fire: Flame Rain, but the armored Corpse General used its cloak and death energy to defend itself.
• The armored Corpse General advanced into a Corpse Minister, prompting Lu Wu to activate Nirvana Domain and cast Fierce Fist: Nirvana Fire: Nine Palaces.
• Lu Wu used Space Rhythm: Time Lag to block the Corpse Minister from escaping the Nine Palaces' range.

Lu Wu tested strengthening his Stars with Soul Essences while his team held a defensive position against the undead. After discovering that the essences condensed his Stars and increased his magic’s power, he began strengthening Stars across several elements, leaving his companions puzzled by his growing excitement.

• Lu Wu collected the Shrouded Corpse Minister’s Commander Level Soul Essence and Undead Crystal, then urged Demon Man to stop advancing and let the team build a temporary fortress.
• While defending the camp, Lu Wu gathered over a hundred Servant Level Soul Essences and decided to use seven to strengthen his Fire Element Stars.
• After Mo Fan explained that strengthened Stars became more condensed, Lu Wu recognized the change and tested his enhanced Nirvana Fire, which blasted a crater into the ground.
• Lu Wu strengthened seven Stars in each of his Fire, Wind, Light, Lightning, Ice, and Space elements, and calculated how many higher-level Soul Essences stronger magic would require.
• Yu Qingsu wondered why Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue shared Lu Wu as a husband, and Zhou Min told her that the chairman was far more powerful than she imagined.

Lu Wu learned how Soul Essences strengthened magic tiers and poured his reserves into his Fire Element, bringing it close to Fourth Tier Advanced Level magic. He unleashed a powerful Fierce Fist to clear undead around the group while Mo Fan hunted, and Demon Man urged everyone to recover for the battle ahead.

• Yu Qingsu learned that Zhou Min and the others belonged to the Jiaoxue Chamber of Commerce and realized Lu Wu was its president.
• Lu Wu asked Mo Fan why his strengthened Stars had stopped improving, and Mo Fan explained that Warrior Soul Essences were needed for Fifth Tier magic rather than Fourth Tier magic.
• Lu Wu used his Soul Essences to strengthen 324 Stars in his Fire Element Nebula, bringing his Advanced Level Fire Magic close to the Fourth Tier.
• Lu Wu left the earth wall and used Nirvana Fire · Fierce Fist: Nine Palaces to burn through the undead.
• Mo Fan summoned Little Flame Fairy and hunted undead while Lu Wu created an opening, and Demon Man told the group to recover their mana and stamina.

Lu Wu led the mage companies through the undead while collecting their Soul Remnants and Soul Essences, then flew ahead to fight the commanders threatening the teams. He defeated a Corpse Minister and brought down the Majestic Bone Minister with his Nirvana Fire, while the other mages continued battling the undead.

• Lu Wu and Mo Fan carved a burning path through the undead, and Lu Wu collected the Soul Remnants and Soul Essences they left behind.
• Lu Wu reached the designated area with Demon Man’s group and identified the White Yin Ghosts, the White Ghost Minister, and a Corpse Minister among the threats.
• Lu Wu unleashed his Thousand-Petaled Flame Flower, then flew ahead to kill the Corpse Minister while Demon Man, Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, and Mu Nujiao defended the group.
• Lu Wu collected the Corpse Minister’s Commander Level Soul Remnant and spotted a Great Commander-level Majestic Bone Minister facing the Light Mage company.
• Lu Wu expanded his Nirvana Domain and burned the Majestic Bone Minister from within until it collapsed.

Lu Wu collected a Majestic Bone Minister’s Soul Essence while Su Xiaoluo and Liu Ru learned that Fang Gu had turned Yangyang Village’s dead into undead to avenge Hua Village’s rejection of his people. After Liu Ru escaped the courtyard, an unknown person secretly left her blood serum, allowing her to recover.

• Lu Wu collected a Majestic Bone Minister’s Soul Essence and continued slaughtering undead to strengthen his Advanced Level magic.
• Fang Gu summoned the undead villagers of Yangyang Village and attacked Hua Village, while Su Xiaoluo and Zhang Xiaohou tried to protect the survivors.
• Fang Gu revealed that he had killed his own family and villagers, turned them into undead with Kun Well Water, and intended to punish Hua Village for driving them away.
• Liu Ru accused Fang Gu of destroying six villages, while Fang Youmiao and the others learned what had happened to Yangyang Village.
• Xie Sang exposed Liu Ru as an undead when the City Demon Hunting Squad arrived, forcing her to escape while injured and unable to buy blood serum.
• An unknown person left blood serum for Liu Ru, and she used it to recover from the loss of her origin blood.

Lu Wu completed the enhancement of all 343 Stars and unleashed his fourth-tier Advanced Magic, Heavenly Flame Funeral, against the Ghost Tyrant. The explosion devastated the battlefield, but left Lu Wu badly injured as death energy from the Sha Yuan surged into him.

• The Light Mage Regiment's Demon Judgment Sword attacked the Ghost Tyrant while it used death energy and undead forces to wear down the regiment.
• Hunter King Du Xiao, Zhu Meng, Lu Xu, and Fei Jiao attacked the Ghost Tyrant from several directions, but its undead forces blocked them and it evaded the Demon Judgment Sword.
• Lu Wu discovered that the Ghost Tyrant was drawing death energy from the Sha Yuan, then positioned himself nearby and finished enhancing all 343 Stars.
• Lu Wu cast Heavenly Flame Funeral, burning the Ghost Tyrant's forces and piercing the Ghost Tyrant with an enormous spear of Nirvana Fire.
• The spear exploded, injuring Du Xiao, the Light Mage Regiment, and Lu Wu; Lu Wu steadied himself after being hurled hundreds of meters, while death energy from the Sha Yuan rushed into his body.

Lu Wu killed the Ghost Tyrant but was injured by Sha Yuan's death energy and headed back through the Undead to collect Soul Remnants and Soul Essences. As the mages waited for dawn and dealt with a trapped squad, Zhu Meng revealed that Lu Wu was still missing.

• The mages on the walls celebrated the Ghost Tyrant's defeat, while Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue fought the surrounding Undead and waited for Lu Wu.
• Lu Wu found that Sha Yuan's death energy was hindering the Nirvana power repairing his body, and he avoided the chilling winds near Sha Yuan.
• Lu Wu returned through growing numbers of Corpse Ministers and Corpse Generals, intending to collect more Soul Remnants and Soul Essences.
• A Military Mage told Commander Zhu that Wang Mang's team was trapped outside the walls, but Demon Man said his group could not safely mount a rescue.
• Zhu Meng returned to the walls and told Demon Man that Du Xiao had been knocked unconscious by the blast; he then learned Lu Wu had not returned.
• Commander Zhu noted that Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue had been waiting for Lu Wu.

After helping defeat the Ghost Tyrant, Lu Wu fought undead through the night and strengthened his Space Element to level four Space Rhythm. At dawn, he discovered the undead were still advancing toward the Ancient Capital, leaving the city's exhausted defenders in danger.

• Zhu Meng left the walls with the Light Mage Regiment to rescue Lu Wu and Wang Mang's surrounded group, while Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue waited for Lu Wu's return.
• Mu Bai and the others remained on the walls, and Mu Nujiao reassured Mu Ningxue that Lu Wu would be all right because his powerful companions had not appeared.
• Lu Wu recovered from his injuries with the Nirvana Bone's power and used Soul Essences to strengthen his Stars, completing his Intermediate Space Element and unlocking level four Space Rhythm.
• Lu Wu fought through the night, using Thunderbolt to destroy skeletons and Space Rhythm: Fissure to kill an advancing Corpse General.
• At dawn, Lu Wu saw that the undead were still advancing in daylight and hurried toward the Ancient Capital, worried that the exhausted mages could not defend the walls.

Lu Wu and the mages faced a new threat when the Skeleton Nether Lord appeared at dawn, and Lu Wu revealed Little Fire as their ally. The Skeleton Nether Lord attacked the North City Wall, and Little Fire’s dark defenses were shattered by its first strike.

• Lu Wu returned to the North City Wall, where Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue embraced him, and he urged Zhu Meng to plan for the undead that still surrounded the city.
• Lu Xu and the others saw the Skeleton Nether Lord emerge at dawn and realized it was stronger than the slain Ghost Tyrant.
• Lu Wu summoned Little Fire, whose Monarch-level Dark Fire form stunned the mages before he explained that it was there to help.
• Du Xiao and Zhu Meng prepared to join the defense as the Skeleton Nether Lord stopped and gathered black energy in its throat.
• Lu Wu warned that the attack was aimed at the left side of the North City Wall, and Little Fire raised a Dark Domain and a wall of dark matter.
• The Skeleton Nether Lord’s black shock wave shattered Little Fire’s dark matter wall and pierced through it.

Lu Wu and the other mages faced a Purple Alert as the Skeleton Nether Lord’s attack was followed by the approach of a Great Monarch, the Corpse of the Mountain Peak. As the group retreated, Lu Wu chose to help civilians in the outer city, and Mo Fan stopped him with a warning that the rain carried the scent of the Black Vatican.

• Lu Wu used Light Falls Manzhang: Holy Wall to weaken the Skeleton Nether Lord’s attack, but its shock wave still pierced the city wall.
• A Purple Alert enveloped the northern district, and Lu Wu recognized the approaching Corpse of the Mountain Peak as a Great Monarch far beyond their ability to fight.
• Zhu Meng ordered the mages to retreat toward the inner city’s Safe Barrier while Lu Wu urged civilians to flee.
• Lu Wu declined to go to the inner city and left with Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue to help the civilians, while Mu Bai, Zhou Min, and others prepared to follow.
• Mo Fan stopped Lu Wu and Zhu Meng, saying he had caught the scent of the Black Vatican in the rain and asking them to remember the rain in Bo City.

Mo Fan warned Zhu Meng and Lu Wu that the rain-fueled undead disaster might be a Black Vatican plot connected to Salang, prompting them to fight on rather than flee. As civilians evacuated toward the inner wall, Lu Wu sent the Chongming Bird to confront the approaching Corpse of the Mountain Peak, while other Undead Monarchs threatened the city from multiple directions.

• Mo Fan compared the disaster to Bo City and suspected the Black Vatican had caused a man-made calamity; Lu Wu backed his warning, and Demon Man linked the Ancient Capital to Cardinal Salang.
• Zhu Meng urged Lu Wu and Mo Fan to leave because they were Black Vatican targets, but they departed with Mu Bai, Zhou Min, Wang Sanpang, and their companions to help the city.
• Mu Bai proposed evacuating civilians from a nearby hospital as Purple Alerts spread across the outer wall and crowds struggled to reach the inner wall.
• Lu Wu summoned the Chongming Bird to stop the approaching Corpse of the Mountain Peak, hoping the battle would help the bird break through to Great Monarch strength.
• The Chongming Bird knocked Zhu Meng from the air with a psychic shock, then flew toward the Corpse of the Mountain Peak while the Skeleton Nether Lord continued toward the city walls.
• Lu Xu warned Zhu Meng and Du Xiao that other Undead Monarchs were attacking from different directions, and they left Lu Wu to buy time on this front.

Lu Wu led civilians toward the inner city walls while the Chongming Bird fought the Corpse of the Mountain Peak and began its breakthrough. The Corpse of the Mountain Peak hurled Corpse Ministers toward the evacuation routes, and Lu Wu sent the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger to attack them.

• The Chongming Bird confronted the Corpse of the Mountain Peak, while Lu Wu explained that the breached city walls and undead armies still threatened the other districts.
• Lu Wu sent Mu Bai and the others to gather civilians and directed Demon Man to guide him to the hospital for an evacuation.
• Lu Wu blasted a falling Corpse Minister with Fierce Fist, but its explosion scattered undead across the crowded road.
• Lu Wu discovered that the Corpse of the Mountain Peak was flinging Corpse Ministers filled with undead toward civilians as the Chongming Bird began breaking through.
• Lu Wu summoned the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger and sent it to attack the Flesh Mound Corpse Ministers.

Lu Huan ordered the Imperial Mage Corps to attack the Flesh Mound Corpse Ministers as civilians crowded into the inner city for safety. He stayed behind, conserving his strength in case he had to face the skeletal Undead Monarch, and wondered about Lu Wu, whose powerful Contract Beasts were helping defend the city.

• Lu Wu and other mages cleared Undead from the sky while civilians and surviving mages pushed toward the golden barrier around the inner city.
• Zuo Feng urged Lu Huan to send the Imperial Mage Corps against the Flesh Mound Corpse Ministers, but Lu Huan waited for a messenger's report.
• After the messenger arrived, Lu Huan ordered the Imperial Mages to eliminate the Flesh Mound Corpse Ministers, and they spread across the city in teams and by other means of travel.
• Lu Huan learned that his family was in the southern district but remained at his post, preserving his strength in case he had to fight the skeletal Undead Monarch.
• The messenger reported that powerful Rulers of ultimate ice and fire were helping the Ancient Capital, and Lu Huan privately considered the possibility that Lu Wu was a Forbidden Curse mage.

Lu Wu fought the Undead while helping lead a huge crowd through the city, and discovered that Undead Crystals could restore mana across all his elements. After his Beast Element briefly surged with bloodlust and nearly consumed his mind, he hid his alarm and ordered the evacuation to continue under strict discipline.

• Lu Wu killed Flesh Mound Corpse Ministers with the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger, met Imperial Mages led by Zuo Feng, and continued toward Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue.
• Lu Wu returned to find Mo Fan clearing the way ahead while Mu Bai and the others helped guide a growing crowd around the flanks and rear.
• Mu Bai gave Lu Wu mana-restoring potions and explained how Undead Crystals could restore mana, so Lu Wu used a Commander-class crystal to replenish all four of his Advanced Level elements.
• Lu Wu killed a group of newly risen skeletons, triggering a surge of bloodlust and power as his Beast Element expanded and the Nirvana Bone struggled to suppress it.
• Lu Wu concealed his fear from Mu Bai and ordered the crowd to move forward calmly, authorizing force against anyone who disrupted the evacuation.

Lu Wu disciplined civilians who were slowing the evacuation, then confronted a Corpse Minister that could turn newly dead people into skeletal Undead. After killing it, he returned to guard the procession and went to check on the two women.

• Lu Wu enforced order among the civilians as the procession evacuated, while an old mage berated those he had disciplined.
• Lu Wu sensed a Corpse Minister approaching and met Zuo Feng and another Imperial Mage, who reported that Corpse Ministers could turn fresh corpses into skeletal Undead.
• Lu Wu attacked the Corpse Minister with Fierce Fist spells, then finished it off with Thunderbolt and Nirvana Fire.
• Lu Wu collected the Commander Level Undead Crystal and rejected Zuo Feng's offer to recommend him to the Imperial Mage Corps.
• Lu Wu returned to the procession, cleared the pursuing Undead, and headed to the left flank to check on the two women's safety.

As the undead overran the Ancient Capital, its senior leaders learned that rainwater carried Nine Nether Dew and confirmed that the Black Vatican had engineered the disaster. A mysterious man warned them that the Ancient King was beginning to awaken and that the Eight Directions Undead Lords intended to turn the city into an Undead Kingdom for him.

• Senior figures including Zhu Meng, Han Ji, and Ling Xi surveyed the undead invasion and discussed the threat posed by the Rulers and the need to find Lu Wu.
• A mage reported that rainwater contained Nine Nether Dew, confirming Zhu Meng's suspicion that the disaster was connected to the Black Vatican and resembled the calamity in Bo City.
• A mysterious, heavily wrapped man revealed that Bo City had been Salang's rehearsal for the Ancient Capital disaster.
• The mysterious man explained that the Eight Directions Undead Lords planned to expand the undead territory and destroy the inherited barrier when the Ancient King awakened.
• The senior figures questioned whether the Ancient Capital could survive and learned that only the Ancient King, who created the Land of the Undead, could command the Eight Directions Undead Lords.

The mysterious man revealed that the Black Vatican had poisoned the rain with Nine Nether Dew and planned to awaken the Ancient King, then urged the leaders to find Fang Gu and use Kun Well source water to buy time. He left to meet his people, while Han Ji privately confirmed the man was working as an outsider rather than for the Magic Court.

• The mysterious man explained that the Black Vatican had made Nine Nether Dew from Kun Well Water and that the rain was the first stage of its plan to awaken the Ancient King.
• The mysterious man told the leaders that Fang Gu possessed the remaining Kun Well source water, which could neutralize the Nine Nether Dew, and proposed sealing the Ancient King before reinforcements arrived.
• Ling Xi asked the mysterious man to reveal his identity, but he refused because he suspected someone present could be Salang or an accomplice.
• Han Ji agreed to notify the Imperial Mages, and the mysterious man said his people had already found Fang Gu before leaving to meet them.
• Zhu Meng asked Han Ji whether the mysterious man belonged to him or the Magic Court, and Han Ji confirmed that he was an outsider.

After a disguised subordinate was murdered, Han Ji suspected Salang was among the gathered leaders and placed them under house arrest. Meanwhile, Mo Fan and Liu Ru searched for Zhang Xiaohou, found villagers protected by Kun Well Water, and realized someone was following them.

• An Imperial Mage found the corpse of the mysterious man’s subordinate, who had impersonated him to collect information, and the mysterious man revealed that Salang might be among the gathered leaders.
• Han Ji ordered the Imperial Mages to bind and detain the higher-ups while his people searched for Fang Gu and the source of the Kun Well.
• Mo Fan left the procession near the inner city walls to search for Liu Ru, and she used his blood to recover while he replenished his mana through her ability.
• Mo Fan and Liu Ru followed Liu Ru’s mark to villagers from Hua Village, who remained unharmed by nearby undead because Kun Well Water’s protection still lingered.
• Liu Ru sent bats to scout after noticing a foul smell and told Mo Fan that someone had been following them; she said she had first mistaken the pursuer for the person who delivered her blood serum.

Fang Gu revealed that the Black Vatican was pursuing Hua Village’s Kun Well Water, and Mo Fan chose to kill the pursuers while Lu Wu went to rescue their friends. The Black Vatican’s agents continued plotting inside the inner city as Lu Wu launched an attack on their hidden force in the outer district.

• Fang Gu approached Mo Fan and Liu Ru, and Lu Wu soon joined them after Fang Gu said he wanted to work with him.
• Fang Gu explained that he had put Hua Village’s Kun Well Water into the bodies of his undead villagers and believed the Black Vatican had used the water in experiments connected to the Bo City disaster.
• Fang Gu asked Lu Wu and the others to help kill the Black Vatican members and rescue their friends, but Mo Fan chose to go after the Black Vatican himself while Lu Wu handled the rescue.
• Inside an inner-city tea house, a man berated the tea house owner over the failed operation, and the owner promised that his younger brother would retrieve the remaining Kun Well Water.
• Lu Wu scouted the Black Vatican force in the outer district, then activated his Nirvana Domain and attacked the hidden Cursed Beasts and Black Beast Demons with Nirvana Fire.
• Xie Sang watched as Lu Wu’s attack killed nearly all of the hidden creatures within moments.

Lu Wu, Mo Fan, and Liu Ru wiped out the Black Vatican force at Hua Village, exposing Hong Jun as its traitor and capturing Fang Gu. Zhang Xiaohou revealed that his apparent amnesia had been an act to protect himself, then explained how he had discovered the Black Vatican’s presence near Sha Yuan.

• Lu Wu killed the Cursed Beasts and Black Beast Demons, then cornered the female blue-clad deacon as Hong Jun took Zhang Xiaohou hostage.
• Mo Fan and Liu Ru subdued Hong Jun, while the blue-clad deacon killed herself rather than be captured and Fang Gu was prevented from escaping.
• Village Chief Xie Sang learned that his son Hong Jun had joined the Black Vatican, and Hong Jun admitted he had valued the group’s promises over his father’s sacrifices.
• Zhang Xiaohou revealed that his memory had returned earlier, but he had continued pretending to be amnesiac because he feared the Black Vatican would kill him.
• Zhang Xiaohou told Mo Fan that after seeing Black Vatican members near Sha Yuan and escaping to Hua Village, he had suspected someone there was trying to poison him.

Zhang Xiaohou revealed that Grand Deacon Hu Jin, a key Black Vatican figure, had been watching him because he might recognize Hu Jin’s voice from Bo City. The group headed toward the inner city to identify Hu Jin, but Lu Huan, Chief of the Imperial Guard, arrived and summoned them to meet with the authorities.

• Zhang Xiaohou said he recognized Grand Deacon Hu Jin’s voice from Bo City, and Fang Gu explained Hu Jin’s role in the Black Vatican.
• Lu Wu and Mo Fan planned to gather Bo City residents from the Jiaoxue Chamber of Commerce so Zhang Xiaohou could identify Hu Jin by voice.
• Fang Gu said he would accompany them and turn himself in to the Magic Court.
• Mu Bai showed Zhang Xiaohou the chamber of commerce’s mage payroll, but Zhang Xiaohou did not recognize anyone on it.
• Lu Huan arrived with Imperial Mages, asked for Fang Gu, and then summoned the group to meet with him.

Lu Wu and his companions reached Han Ji, who sought Kun Well Water to neutralize Nine Nether Dew and save Ancient Capital, but Fang Gu had used his last supply. When Lu Wu revealed that the Earth Sacred Spring was also gone, Han Ji feared the Ancient King would awaken and destroy the city, though the gray-white-robed man still hoped to find the king’s tomb.

• Lu Huan escorted Lu Wu and his companions to a courtyard where Han Ji thanked Lu Wu for bringing Fang Gu to him.
• Han Ji asked Fang Gu for Kun Well Water, explaining that it could neutralize Nine Nether Dew and put the undead to sleep.
• Fang Gu summoned Fang Tu, revealing that he had used his last Kun Well Water to temper the skeleton and offered him up for its recovery.
• Zhang Xiaohou recalled that Lu Wu had once possessed Bo City's Earth Sacred Spring, and the gray-white-robed man explained that it shared its origin with Kun Well Water.
• Lu Wu said he had already used the Earth Sacred Spring, leaving Han Ji to fear the Ancient King would awaken and obliterate the city.
• The gray-white-robed man said finding the Ancient King's tomb might offer hope, while Han Ji believed the king's awakening could reveal its location and return the city to his rule.

After Zhang Xiaohou recounted what he knew about the Black Vatican, Mu Bai identified his uncle Mu He as a suspect in Head Deacon Hu Jin’s plot. Zhang Xiaohou’s memories began returning through a Forget Worm, while Lu Wu learned that the authorities had detained several possible Salangs but could not identify the real one.

• Zhang Xiaohou told the mysterious man in gray-white and Han Ji what Fang Gu had witnessed and suspected about Head Deacon Hu Jin.
• Mu Bai connected Yu Ang’s ties to the Black Vatican with his uncle Mu He, who had brought Yu Ang into the Mu Family and helped resettle the Bo City refugees.
• Zhang Xiaohou convulsed in pain, and Han Ji discovered a mature Forget Worm on his arm as his memories began to return.
• Zhang Xiaohou cried out that Mu He was involved before the mysterious man in gray-white knocked him unconscious to stop the Forget Worm from advancing.
• The mysterious man in gray-white explained that the authorities had detained several senior defenders because they could not determine which one was the real Salang.