Recaps

The Snow Empress and Yin Wujou rebuilt the Spirit Vein Bureau and investigated Hetao’s recovering springs, uncovering a severed earth-vein circuit and the forces trying to keep it broken. After A Yao restored the three Vein Eyes, the group discovered Old Dao’s people were seeking the main control node and recovered three Spirit Vein Keys, but suspected they were being followed.

• The Snow Empress and Yin Wujou reopened the Spirit Vein Bureau, recruited Zhou Yan and A Yao, and sent Yin Wujou and A Yao to investigate three springs in Hetao.
• Yin Wujou and A Yao found that the springs were reviving, but an Earth Vein Beast attacked the Bureau and threatened the springs until the Snow Empress dissolved it with earth vein water.
• Meng Qi confessed that he had tampered with a vein node and revealed that reconnecting Hetao’s three Vein Eyes could restore the severed circuit.
• A Yao and the Snow Empress entered the blind zone and restored the first and third Vein Eyes while the last vein keeper watched, causing earth vein water to circulate and weaken the Resentment Beasts.
• The vein keeper told the group that a red-striped man had sought the main control node beneath the radar station, and the Snow Empress followed the clue to investigate with A Yao.
• The Snow Empress and A Yao found Old Dao’s men trying to access the main control node, defeated them, and discovered the men had buried the three Spirit Vein Keys in an old warehouse.
• The Snow Empress and the vein keeper uncovered an iron box containing the three keys, but the vein keeper spotted a flash of light on the southern slope and the Snow Empress suspected they were being followed.