Recaps

Zhu Lianqing, disguised as Wang Xianren, reunited with Xie Lingchuan while helping his disciples investigate the demons preying on Wuxia Village. After the group destroyed the moth yaoguai and exposed the villagers’ crimes, Xie Lingchuan’s Demon-Detecting Needle pointed at Zhu Lianqing, and they headed back to the village with a Spirit Connection Spell between them.

• Zhu Lianqing left the Heavenly Silkworm Cave in disguise, passed Xie Lingchuan at Ode to the Spring Breeze, and settled in Wuxia Village as Wang Xianren.
• When a corpse-eating demon and poisonous moth yaoguai attacked the village, Zhu Lianqing fought alongside Xie Lingchuan and his disciples, then helped them uncover the villagers’ alliance with the demons.
• Zhu Lianqing and the disciples lured the moth demons into a formation, but Liu Er and the villagers disrupted the fight, and Xie Lingchuan rescued Liu Er as the moth leader attacked.
• The group tracked the surviving moth demons to White Bone Cavern, where Xie Lingchuan and Shen Ji broke the Soul-Seizing Formation and split up to fight the cavern’s threats.
• Shen Ji’s group faced the moth yaoguai and an illusion that drew villagers toward a cliff, while Xie Lingchuan joined the fight and killed the demon.
• The Demon-Detecting Needle repeatedly pointed at Zhu Lianqing, so Xie Lingchuan questioned her and attempted a Spirit Connection Spell with her, but its golden threads snapped before they completed it.
• After Shen Ji reported the villagers’ fall, Xie Lingchuan and Zhu Lianqing reassured him, suspected he had let the illusion take effect, and led the group back toward Wuxia Village to protect A Man.

Zhu Lianqing traveled with Xie Lingchuan and his companions through the Northern Territory, where she vanished after helping A Man join Seven Splendors Mountain and later reunited with the group near Pingjiang City. After defeating Thousand Vines and confronting Xie Lingchuan’s inner demons, they entered the sealed city to rescue Mingzhu and became caught in a ghost wedding.

• Shen Ji and Xie Lingchuan gathered evidence in Wuxia Village before the authorities arrived, and A Man joined the group on its journey north.
• At Falling Snow City, Xie Lingchuan followed Zhu Lianqing to a pleasure house, brought her back drunk, and mistakenly held his sword to her when she entered his room.
• The group visited Falling Snow Mountain, where Zhu Lianqing encouraged A Man to approach Seven Splendors Mountain and then disappeared after Xie Lingchuan vouched for her.
• Two months later, Xie Lingchuan confronted Zhu Lianqing near Pingjiang City, where they learned a monster had killed He Chongsan and joined the effort to clear the area.
• The group fought Thousand Vines, and Zhu Lianqing entered Xie Lingchuan’s inner demon illusion, where she saw him relive her imagined death and helped him escape.
• After recovering at the Liu residence, Zhu Lianqing and Xie Lingchuan helped celebrate Mingzhu’s wedding, but ghosts abducted the bride and took her into Pingjiang City.
• The group entered Pingjiang City and found an illusion of its hundred-year-old streets, where ghost matchmakers began separating them and selecting Zhu Lianqing, Shen Ji, and Xie Lingchuan as wedding participants.