Recaps

Lin Yu and the Black-Robed High Priest brought Feng Nianzhi to Daoist Shouyang, who agreed to help her weaken her seal while she stayed in his residence. Afterward, Lin Yu pursued a mysterious force connected to a Heaven-Mending Fragment and found himself fighting Hao Dog Demonic Beasts and swarms of insects.

• Lin Yu defeated Daoist Shouyang’s chain-wielding guard and, with the Black-Robed High Priest’s Phoenix True Fire, destroyed the undead fog and weakened the guard’s Soul-Locking Chain.
• Lin Yu and the Black-Robed High Priest navigated Daoist Shouyang’s formation and met him in his pavilion, where he explained that Feng Nianzhi would need to stay so his formations could weaken her seal.
• Feng Nianzhi chose to remain with Daoist Shouyang to work toward breaking her seal, and Lin Yu arranged for her to return to the Phoenix Ancestral Sea for short visits.
• Lin Yu left the residence and met He Buxian, who explained that a mysterious force had killed the Red Peak Gang’s grand elder and that a stone he had found contained the power of a Heaven-Mending Fragment.
• Lin Yu and He Buxian encountered black mist and Hao Dog Demonic Beasts, and Lin Yu discovered that larvae beneath their scales suppressed their hosts and resisted spiritual attacks.
• Lin Yu sensed a nearby Heaven-Mending Fragment as dark-green insects emerged from the beasts, then used Fire of Thunder to burn the insects and their corpses.
• Lin Yu and He Buxian found that the insects’ burning bodies produced a fragrance, but the Hongmeng System detected no trace of the mysterious force, so Lin Yu waited for it to reveal itself.

Lin Yu and He Buxian investigated a mysterious power in the Black Spade Desert, then Lin Yu stayed in the Youming Immortal World to protect Feng Nianzhi and purify Heaven-Mending Fragments. A conscious fragment trapped Lin Yu and tried to take his fragment, but he escaped and faced the water-drop man, who used Feng Nianzhi’s voice to threaten him.

• Lin Yu and He Buxian encountered dark green Bone Worms in the Black Spade Desert, escaped their pursuit, and learned that the mysterious power had influenced He Buxian before its connection to him was severed.
• Lin Yu explained the Heaven-Mending Fragments to He Buxian and resolved to find and purify any contaminated fragments in the Youming Immortal World.
• The Black-Robed High Priest asked Lin Yu to watch over Feng Nianzhi, and Lin Yu learned from Daoist Shouyang that Bone Worms controlled the Hao Dog Demonic Beasts.
• The Fallen Black Phoenix confronted the Black-Robed High Priest, but Lin Yu stopped their fight and urged the high priest to focus on protecting Feng Nianzhi.
• The mysterious force disrupted Lin Yu’s meditation and left him chained to a platform above darkness, without access to his spiritual power or the Hongmeng System.
• A conscious Heaven-Mending Fragment tried to fuse with Lin Yu’s fragment, but Lin Yu’s sword intent separated them and a storm restored and strengthened his meridians and spiritual power.
• Lin Yu broke his chains and escaped the vanishing platform, then faced the water-drop man, who demanded his fragment and used Feng Nianzhi’s sobbing voice to threaten him.

Lin Yu uncovered the Heaven-Mending Fragment’s growing consciousness and lured the Water Droplet Man into a confrontation, while refusing to risk damaging the fragment. The pursuit left Lin Yu facing the fragment alone, determined to preserve part of its consciousness and investigate its connection to the World-Ending Great Calamity.

• Lin Yu saw through the Water Droplet Man’s illusion, escaped with his soul restored to his body, and resolved to protect Feng Nianzhi and find the other fragments.
• Lin Yu bound Feng Changge after he threatened the Fallen Black Phoenix, then told He Buxian and the Fallen Black Phoenix that a conscious fragment had attacked him through an illusion.
• Lin Yu explained that the Youming Immortal Realm fragment was absorbing Sha Qi and could become a dangerous, uncontrollable predator, but refused to use a young Archaic Phoenix Clan member as bait.
• Lin Yu exposed Feng Changge’s disguise and learned that he carried the Ancient Phoenix’s true fire, then pressured him into lending his Origin Fire by having He Buxian pluck his feathers.
• Lin Yu set out the Heaven-Mending Fragment as bait, but the Water Droplet Man fled when he entered, prompting Lin Yu and his companions to pursue him.
• Lin Yu caught up with the Water Droplet Man while holding back his strength to avoid damaging the fragment, and the others followed using Lin Yu’s marks.
• The Water Droplet Man boasted that he had laid traps and would rule the world after transforming, while Lin Yu suspected the fragment’s corrupted consciousness was tied to the dark power behind the World-Ending Great Calamity.
• Lin Yu resolved to preserve part of the fragment’s spiritual consciousness and study its connection to the calamity, while the fragment dismissed his composure as a bluff.

Lin Yu and his companions fought the Hao Dog Demonic Beasts and escaped the Heaven-Mending Fragment’s draining barrier, then Lin Yu descended alone into a strange underground tunnel. The others waited above while Lin Yu faced growing pressure and searched for answers about the desert, the insects, and Water Droplet Man.

• He Buxian identified the desert as the Hao Dog Demonic Beasts’ gathering place and warned that its fissures, insects, and power-draining effects made it dangerous, while Feng Changge mocked his concerns.
• Hao Dog Demonic Beasts poured from the fissures, and He Buxian, the Fallen Black Phoenix, and Feng Changge fought them as their spiritual power rapidly dwindled.
• The Fallen Black Phoenix and Feng Changge unleashed Phoenix True Fire into the fissures, driving back the beasts and burning many of the dark-green insects, but the barrier continued draining them.
• Feng Changge’s fire briefly weakened the barrier without breaking it, and the trio remained trapped until Lin Yu arrived and made the barrier vanish.
• Lin Yu said he had captured Water Droplet Man and explained that Feng Changge’s fire was meant to erase Water Droplet Man’s consciousness without damaging the Heaven-Mending Fragment.
• Lin Yu restored the others’ strength, then decided to investigate underground alone despite He Buxian’s warnings, while Feng Changge and the Fallen Black Phoenix stayed aboveground.
• Lin Yu descended through a deep fissure protected by lightning and flames, while the Fallen Black Phoenix, Feng Changge, and He Buxian waited and worried when he did not answer their calls.
• Lin Yu used the Hongmeng System to determine that he was falling through an exceptionally deep tunnel, but increasing pressure and failed deductions left him uncertain about the smooth walls and the underground space’s origins.