Recaps

Xiao Hei won the candidates' competition and was confirmed as the successor to the Nine Nether Underworld Lord. As he discussed delegating the work to Gu Sheng, Tan Feng questioned He Zhou and Chen Qi about their unusual weapons and abilities before the Nether Lord appeared.

• Xiao Hei defeated Chen Qi, claimed first place, and was named the successor after He Zhou was carried away for treatment.
• Envoy Tao announced that candidates who reached the third round could visit Nether King Hall to comprehend the Nether King's True Essence.
• Tan Feng advised Xiao Hei to delegate Underworld affairs, and Xiao Hei proposed that Gu Sheng manage them with Tan Feng's guidance.
• Tan Feng asked He Zhou about his shattered spear and Chen Qi about his Power of Reincarnation; He Zhou said the ruler of the Soaring Realm's Underworld had given him the spear.
• After He Zhou and Chen Qi left for Nether King Hall, Tan Feng warned Xiao Hei that their arrival amid factional tensions was suspicious, and the Nether Lord appeared behind them.

The Nether Lord revealed that the other side might be infiltrating the Underworld and sent Xiao Hei, Tan Feng, and Envoy Tao to investigate He Zhou’s weapon in the Soaring Realm Underworld. Xiao Hei arrived to find its officials waiting and ordered the Underworld sealed while he summoned its lord and senior members.

• The Nether Lord warned that He Zhou might be tied to a plot to control the Underworld and directed an investigation into the Soaring Realm Underworld.
• Xiao Hei appointed Gu Sheng to help manage the Nine Nether Underworld while Tan Feng handed over his duties.
• Ten days later, Tan Feng, Envoy Tao, and Xiao Hei accompanied He Zhou to the Soaring Realm Underworld to investigate his weapon’s origins.
• Tan Feng opened a route through the Yellow Springs River, and the group reached the Soaring Realm Underworld in about half a cup of tea.
• Xiao Hei ordered the Soaring Realm Underworld sealed, allowing entry but forbidding anyone to leave, and demanded to meet its lord and senior members.

Xiao Hei took control of the Soaring Realm Underworld and learned that an Upper Realm intruder had stolen an Underworld item that could enable access to the Underworld. After ordering an investigation into hidden intruders and array traces, he said he would call in his junior brother, who had learned Array Dao from their master.

• Xiao Hei sealed the Soaring Realm Underworld and ordered the envoys’ leader executed for defying the Nether Lord, but the Underworld Master intervened and pledged obedience.
• The Soaring Realm Underworld Master explained that an Upper Realm intruder had torn open the Underworld’s space seven hundred years earlier, leaving behind the broken spear that He Zhou used.
• Tan Feng confronted the Underworld Master and learned that he had concealed the incident and that an envoy had allowed the intruder to take an Underworld item.
• Tan Feng stripped the envoy of his position and ordered him to walk across the Naihe Bridge, while Envoy Tao warned that the stolen item could help Upper Realm forces enter the Underworld.
• Xiao Hei proposed checking everyone and searching for array traces; Tan Feng and Envoy Tao took charge of the inspections, and Xiao Hei said he would summon his junior brother to examine the array.

Fang Qiong investigated the Soaring Realm's Underworld for a teleportation array and uncovered one hidden near the Naihe Bridge, along with an evil Soul-Summoning Array. Tan Feng trapped the Underworld's higher-ups and moved to deal with the discovery.

• Lu Changsheng kicked Fang Qiong out of the Changsheng Realm, and Xiao Hei asked him to investigate the Underworld for arrays.
• Fang Qiong quickly identified the Great Reincarnation Array in the main hall, then learned that Xiao Hei needed him to find a teleportation array to the Upper Realm.
• Fang Qiong used the Good Fortune Formation Spirit Physique and its array spirits to search the Underworld.
• Fang Qiong found a teleportation array east of them, concealed by twenty-four arrays, and also detected an evil Soul-Summoning Array.
• Envoy Tao condemned the factions behind the arrays, and Tan Feng trapped the Underworld's higher-ups in a Yellow Springs River cage while ordering them to wait.

Fang Qiong revealed that the Upper Realm had layered a teleportation array with a Soul-Summoning Array beneath the Naihe Bridge, prompting Tan Feng to report the intrusion to the Nether Lord. Dou Xun confronted the Holy Lord with evidence linking the Holy Court to the scheme, and the Holy Lord ordered the suspected agent brought before him.

• Fang Qiong exposed the arrays beneath the Naihe Bridge, and Tan Feng ordered Envoy Tao to inform the Nether Lord.
• Dou Xun arrived at the Holy Court with Chen Qi, subdued its guards, and demanded to see the Holy Lord.
• The Holy Lord recognized Dou Xun, who challenged him and presented evidence that the Holy Court had recruited Chen Qi to meddle in the Underworld.
• The Holy Lord ordered an investigation, and an old man soon brought a man before him.