Recaps

Chen Qing explained that the Liuzhou monster spread fear through chosen vessels, while Wei Gongcheng investigated its source. Wei Gongcheng identified two Shen Family disciples as suspicious and focused on finding the Northern Wolf Kingdom children to learn why Murong had been killed.

• Chen Qing told Ghost Child that the monster spread negative emotions through vessels and could be stopped by finding them or locating its source.
• Chen Qing recalled designing Heart Demon as a demon that spread influence through selected vessels, and considered whether Wei Gongcheng could solve the crisis.
• Wei Gongcheng studied the Mirror Image Jade and identified two Shen Family disciples who had moved unusually around the restaurant.
• Chen Ying recognized the suspects as Shen Xue's cousins, and Wei Gongcheng concluded that an outside force was likely behind their behavior and the spreading fear.
• Wei Gongcheng connected the evil entity attached to Shen Xue, the Shen brothers, and Murong's death, then ordered Chen Ying to find the Northern Wolf Kingdom children to uncover why Murong had been targeted.

Beiyu and her companions tried to find Murong Bingyun while the demon’s influence spread through Liuzhou and began affecting Wutu Yun. They followed Murong’s trail into Chen Qing’s government office, while Ziyue and the scarecrow arrived outside and chose to wait for the city’s chaos to worsen.

• Beiyu noticed bloody tears in Wutu Yun’s eyes and realized fear and agitation accelerated the demon’s influence, so she split the group and kept him close.
• Wutu Yun recalled speaking with a chubby boy from the Shen Family, leading Beiyu to suspect the monster connected to Shen Xue was behind Liuzhou’s chaos.
• Beiyu, Wutu Yun, and Han Feng followed Murong Bingyun’s trail to Chen Qing’s government office, where Chen Ye’s wife invited them inside after Beiyu asked about a missing child in white feather robes.
• Ziyue and the scarecrow reached the government office, but Ziyue refused to help break in and warned that Chen Qing’s courtyard was dangerous.
• The scarecrow agreed to wait, expecting Liuzhou’s spreading chaos to give him an opportunity to force out Chen Qing’s contingencies and obtain Murong’s mark.

Beiyu and the others sought help from Chen Ye to learn how Murong died, while Ziyue and the straw figure discovered that the Underworld’s divine officers had been called away. A Li confirmed the Underworld was temporarily unguarded and persuaded Chen Ye to open its passage.

• Sister-in-law Chen explained that Murong’s spirit had visited her and said family could usually meet the dead only through dreams, so she led Beiyu and the others to find her husband, Chen Ye.
• Ziyue and the straw figure watched the group and learned they were seeking the Day Wandering God to reach Murong in the Underworld.
• On the way to the City God Temple, Beiyu told Sister-in-law Chen that Dean Chen Ying was accused of freezing the restaurant where Murong had died, and she defended Chen Ying’s character.
• Chen Ye appeared at the temple and said he could not arrange a dream because the City God had summoned the Underworld’s divine officers to help in the world of the living.
• The straw figure offered Ziyue and A Li priority access to the Dragon Palace’s secret medicine if they helped capture Murong Bingyun, and Ziyue accepted.
• A Li verified that the Underworld’s divine officers were away, read Chen Ye’s memories, and persuaded him to open the passage to the Underworld.

Wei Gongcheng revealed that he had lured Ziyue and her companions into the Underworld to protect his lord’s Dragon Palace plan. As Ziyue tried to escape through a breach between worlds, Wei Gongcheng reached the opening first, but a warning cry came from below.

• Beiyu watched the woman in red open the Underworld and feared that her group had ruined Murong’s last chance to survive.
• Ziyue and the straw man discussed the Underworld’s power and hurried to find Murong before its lord returned.
• Wei Gongcheng appeared beside Murong, captured the human vessels with chains, and sealed Chen Ye’s passage between yin and yang.
• Ziyue pierced the Underworld with a beam of starlight and fled with A Li and the straw man as Wei Gongcheng pursued them.
• Wei Gongcheng blocked the opening ahead of Ziyue and the others, then heard someone below cry out to warn him.

Murong Yunji rescued Ziyue’s group by pulling Wei Gongcheng out of the Underworld, where A Li tried to control him but he sealed his senses. Ziyue prepared to leave for the Dragon Palace, while Chen Qing learned of Wei Gongcheng’s risky plan and Wei Gongzhan received a warning from his cousin.

• Murong Yunji struck Wei Gongcheng from outside the Underworld and rescued Ziyue’s group, leaving Murong Bingyun behind.
• A Li tried to alter Wei Gongcheng’s memories, but he sealed his seven senses to block her ability.
• Ziyue explained that Wei Gongcheng’s capture had been her plan and announced she would leave for the Dragon Palace within the seven-day deadline.
• Chen Qing read Wei Gongcheng’s message and judged his desperate plan to be the best available move.
• Wei Gongzhan reached a rune with Xiaoli and received a message from Wei Gongcheng warning that he had been placed under their control.

Wei Gongcheng’s message explained that Wei Gongzhan was meant to help reclaim Liuzhou while Ziyue and the other powerful figures traveled to the Dragon Palace. He persuaded Xiaoli to consider helping by promising to spare her mother, the Thousand-Faced Fox, and revealed that Xiaoli’s power to undo memory control could be used only once per day, leaving them to decide who should receive that crucial chance.

• Wei Gongcheng explained that he had expected Wei Gongzhan to escape Great Azure Mountain and serve as his fallback plan to reclaim Liuzhou.
• Wei Gongcheng said the Thousand-Faced Fox would likely be left in Liuzhou while Ziyue, the capital monster, and Murong Yunji went to the Dragon Palace.
• Wei Gongcheng asked Xiaoli to help save Great Azure Mountain’s people, and Wei Gongzhan warned her that her mother might eventually eat them all.
• Wei Gongcheng promised to capture the Thousand-Faced Fox rather than kill her if Xiaoli helped save Liuzhou, and Xiaoli asked whether he meant it.
• Xiaoli revealed that she could undo another person’s memory control only once a day, and Wei Gongcheng said they would have to spend their single chance on the most useful person.

A Li used the Thousand-Faced Fox’s abilities to calm Liuzhou and strengthen her control, while Shen Yu rushed to find Shen Xue after hearing of the Shen Family scandal. Outside the city, Shen Yuan learned that Wei Gongzhan had lured Shen Yu away so he could enter Liuzhou, leaving the city’s safety dependent on him.

• A Li surveyed the calm Liuzhou and resolved to avoid provoking the powerful Underworld lords while she built up her strength.
• A Li spotted Shen Yu approaching and checked his memories, confirming he had hurried to find Shen Xue after hearing about the scandal.
• Shen Yu entered Shen Xue’s room, apologized to Chen Ying, and explained that he feared for his younger sister.
• A Li used her innate talent on Shen Yu and found that he had told the truth, then realized her repeated use of the ability was exhausting her.
• Outside Liuzhou, Shen Yuan learned that Wei Gongzhan had arranged for Shen Yu to be distracted so Shen Yuan could enter the city.
• Wei Gongzhan told Shen Yuan that Liuzhou’s safety now depended on him.

Shen Yuan learned that Liuzhou was under the Thousand-Faced Fox’s control and agreed to help Wei Gongzhan investigate. While A Li and Hei Yun discussed the risk of Shen Yuan seeing through their deception, Shen Yuan confronted Shen Yu and then visited Seventh Master Shen, uncertain whether he was genuine.

• Wei Gongzhan told Shen Yuan that the City God might be controlled and asked him to help because Wei Gongzhan and Xiaoli could not enter Liuzhou City.
• A Li decided not to control Shen Yuan, and Hei Yun assured Chen Ying that Shen Yuan would not detect the deception because the person in question was Shen Qi.
• Shen Yu begged Shen Yuan and Madam Zheng to let him hide in Jiangnan, but Shen Yuan urged him to return to the capital and warn the Shen Family before offering to seek permission for him to study at the Foundation Academy.
• Shen Yuan learned from Shen Yu that Academy Head Chen was in Shen Xue’s room and suspected Chen had been controlled.
• Shen Yuan visited Seventh Master Shen, who claimed the crisis had been resolved but said Academy Head Chen was still investigating with Shen Xue.
• Shen Yuan asked Seventh Master Shen to go with him to Great Azure Mountain to study the Lesser Azure Dragon Formation.

Wei Gongzhan and Xiaoli approached Shen Yifeng outside the door gods’ surveillance range, where Shen Yifeng realized his memories had been altered. Chen Qing explained that the Thousand-Faced Fox’s memory-altering ability could be detected by someone as perceptive as Shen Yifeng, leaving their deception at risk.

• The Thousand-Faced Fox had used A Li’s ability to alter Shen Yifeng’s memories and make him serve as a substitute for the dead Yin Devourer.
• Shen Yuan led Shen Yifeng toward Wei Gongzhan, while Wei Gongzhan approached with Xiaoli hidden in his clothes.
• Xiaoli escaped into the sunlight, and Shen Yifeng stepped beyond the door gods’ range and recognized that his memories had been altered.
• Ghost Child asked Chen Qing whether Shen Yifeng would notice the changes, and Chen Qing explained how inconsistencies could expose the Thousand-Faced Fox’s deception.
• Chen Qing recalled that Shen Yifeng was exceptionally talented and concluded that Ziyue and the Thousand-Faced Fox had underestimated him.

A Li woke after sleeping for twenty-six hours, while Shen Qi kept her under hypnosis to protect Liuzhou and explained why he was stalling until Lord Chen returned. On the way to the Dragon Palace, Chen Qing received Shen Qi’s report, and Baiyu warned that a court ship was approaching.

• A Li learned that she had slept for twenty-six hours, checked that Liuzhou’s fortune remained stable, and asked Hei Yun to bring her ordinary food.
• Hei Yun returned with a meal and found A Li asleep again, unaware that the eye in her room had moved.
• Shen Qi told Wei Gongzhan and Shen Yuan that he was dead, too unstable to fight Hei Yun, and feared an attack would draw Ziyue back to Liuzhou.
• Shen Qi chose to keep the Thousand-Faced Fox hypnotized and stall until Lord Chen returned, while Wei Gongzhan and Shen Yuan entrusted Liuzhou’s fate to him.
• Chen Qing received Shen Qi’s message aboard the boat and reflected that the divine kingdom depended on obtaining the Dragon Palace’s crucial item.
• Baiyu warned Chen Qing that a court ship with a distinctive aura was approaching.

Chen Qing welcomed the imperial court’s delegation to the Dragon Palace and met its senior representatives, including Hong Yue and Pang Xingyun. Chen Baifeng began introducing the final delegate by asking whether Chen Qing remembered Mr. Origami.

• Chen Qing wondered how the court had assembled its delegation so quickly, then greeted Chen Baifeng when the imperial ship arrived.
• Chen Baifeng said the court had sent four senior warlocks with deputies and introduced Hong Yue as the guards’ leader.
• Chen Qing and Hong Yue exchanged friendly words over Hong Lie’s time in Jiangnan, and Hong Yue acknowledged Chen Qing’s kindness.
• Chen Baifeng introduced Pang Xingyun, who thanked Chen Qing for helping punish his father’s killer, and Li Kainian, the retired Minister of Personnel.
• Chen Baifeng asked whether Chen Qing remembered Mr. Origami, leaving Chen Qing speechless.

Chen Qing identified Gu Ying, the palace spellcaster whose art countered Shen Qi, as the factions gathered near the Dragon Palace. The Duke of Wei arrived with powerful allies, and Chen Qing was stunned to see an old man who looked like Liu Yu, the Duke of Song.

• Chen Baifeng introduced Gu Ying as a palace spellcaster who had held the Black Tortoise position for twenty years, and Chen Qing recalled Shen Qi warning that Gu Ying countered his abilities.
• Xiao Mingxue arrived by ship after the court’s vessel, and she wondered why the court had reached the Dragon Palace so quickly.
• Shen Laoda’s black mist drew the flood dragons’ attention, and Xiao Mingxue and the others waited as the creatures stared at their ships.
• The Duke of Wei arrived with Bai Sang and Xiang Tianyu, surprising Xiao Mingxue with the powerful allies he had brought.
• Xiao Mingxue stepped onto Chen Qing’s ship to stand beside him, and Chen Qing froze when he saw an old man resembling Liu Yu among the Duke of Wei’s party.

Chen Qing introduced Baiyu as the cause of the Dragon Palace opening early, and the gathered factions disputed whether she could join their division of the entrances. Murong Yunji and Ziyue arrived, revealing formidable allies for Baiyu, and Chen Qing proposed randomly assigning the factions to the four entrances.

• Chen Qing met Ghost Mr. Mirror, learned he had taken on the Duke of Song's appearance for certain assignments, and introduced Baiyu to the gathered leaders.
• Baiyu admitted she had concealed the area in fog, while the eldest princess challenged her right to share the four Dragon Palace entrances.
• Murong Yunji arrived and revealed the scarlet mark of an ancient insect in her eyes, prompting Shen Laowu to recognize her.
• Ziyue descended in a streak of starlight, and sorcerers from the court and north saluted her as a senior.
• Ziyue and Shen Laoda clashed with their spiritual power, and Shen Laoda asked Chen Qing how the newly enlarged group should divide the entrances.
• Chen Qing proposed randomly assigning the factions, leaving everyone stunned.

Chen Qing revealed that he would enter the Dragon Palace’s core alone with Ziyue and a few others, destroy it within six hours, and escape through a route that would scatter them toward the four sea eyes. As the Dragon Palace neared opening, Xu Hu and Tian Heng waited with the Fighter Army outside the West Sea while Tian Heng sensed that the venture could decide whether the Sea God path survived.

• Chen Qing explained that he wanted the core’s scholarly and magical legacies and would destroy the core within six hours to delay the revival of its creatures.
• Chen Qing refused to let the factions accompany him as groups, explaining that the escape route had only four places and would split them among the four sea eyes.
• Chen Baifeng and the others declined to join Chen Qing after learning they would have to leave assistants behind and risk being separated.
• Ziyue agreed to go with Chen Qing, while Baiyu told her retainer Yuchi Feihong to wait for her.
• Chen Qing told everyone to prepare because the Dragon Palace would open within half a day.
• At the West Sea, Xu Hu worried about Chen Qing entering without the Fighter Army, while Tian Heng sensed that success or failure could determine whether the Sea God path endured.

The emperor learned that the nine ministerial families had accepted Chen Qing’s limit on the number of Above First Rank sorcerers, while the empress revealed that she was the source of the world. As the Dragon Palace began drawing water vapor and the Yin-Yang Road threatened to reopen, Chen Qing set his plan in motion to control the ten thousand jiaolong.

• The emperor learned from the empress that Chen Qing had forced the nine ministerial families to agree to four Above First Rank sorcerers, and she hinted at the King of Qin Plan and a greater enemy.
• The empress told the emperor that she and her kind were the source of the world.
• The King of Qin and Mr. Heavenly Secrets discussed the disasters beginning with the Dragon Palace’s opening and the coming return of the Yin-Yang Road.
• Chen Qing warned the Duke of Wei, the eldest princess, and the other leaders that the Ten Thousand Jiaolong Grand Formation would draw water vapor from across the world, and asked them to protect their people.
• Chen Qing placed a water-blue gem at his prepared location, creating a powerful wind corridor that sent the ten thousand jiaolong into a frenzy.

Chen Qing led the group through the Ten Thousand Jiaolong Grand Formation and explained the dangers and costs of Dragon Transformation. As they reached the Dragon Palace entrance, the sleeping failed transformers woke and fixed their eyes on the newcomers.

• Chen Qing explained that his stable wind passage would not disrupt the formation, but destroying the gathered water essence would unleash catastrophic floods.
• Chen Qing led the group to the compressed-water core and warned them that its release could crush them and devastate the world.
• Chen Qing revealed that the human-headed earthworm monsters above the Dragon Palace entrance were people who had turned into demons and failed at Dragon Transformation.
• Chen Qing explained that insect demons had higher transformation success rates but low status and short lifespans, while jiaolong offered the highest potential at the greatest risk.
• The Duke of Wei suggested killing the sleeping monsters, and they opened their eyes and stared at the group.

Chen Qing negotiated with the malicious, withered monsters guarding the hall and exposed their hidden spells, then led his companions safely inside. As the group prepared to face further dangers, the eldest princess unexpectedly hooked her arm through Chen Qing’s.

• Chen Qing offered the withered monsters water essence and negotiated permission to pass, but warned them to seal away their hidden spells.
• Shen Laoda silenced the monsters with his ancient aura, and they recognized him as the ancient insect they feared.
• Chen Qing used jade beads to reveal and test the spells, then led the group through after the monsters withdrew them.
• Chen Qing warned his companions not to attack the monsters, since they might have prepared contingencies and the flood dragons outside posed another threat.
• The eldest princess suddenly stepped beside Chen Qing and hooked her arm through his.

Chen Qing led the gathered powers into the ruined Dragon Palace and explained that its central hall served as an academy connecting the four seas. After the groups entered their assigned Dragon Palaces, Ziyue asked Chen Qing why he had kept her, Baiyu, and the others with him, leaving his real purpose unrevealed.

• The Eldest Princess flirted with Chen Qing and said she might not survive the expedition, but wanted to indulge herself if she did.
• The group entered the decaying Dragon Palace, where Chen Qing suspected its monsters had resumed biological-weapons experiments that might have caused a dangerous backlash.
• Chen Qing explained that the central hall had once been an academy where young dragon clans from the four seas exchanged secret arts, and that each sea’s Dragon Palace held different elemental inheritances.
• The Eldest Princess entered the South Sea dragon head, followed by her thralls, and the other groups proceeded through their assigned dragon heads.
• After the others vanished, Ziyue asked Chen Qing why he had kept her, Baiyu, and their companions with him; Chen Qing acknowledged that he had other plans.

Chen Qing persuaded Ziyue, Baiyu, and Murong Yunji to explore the Dragon Palace’s former testing ground in search of its weapon-making secrets and the origin of the Ancient Insects. As they followed him into a dark abyss, Chen Qing realized the place matched content that had been planned for an update but never implemented, leaving him to wonder whether the world was still changing.

• Chen Qing questioned Ziyue about her stance on the Ancient Insects, and Ziyue suggested that humanity’s survival had been arranged and that the Ancient Insects alone could not destroy it.
• Chen Qing explained that the Dragon Palace’s Dragon Gate had been a testing ground for creating weapons, and Ziyue inferred that he wanted its weapon-making method.
• Chen Qing pointed out that Baiyu, Murong Yunji, and Ziyue lacked the resources and followers to pose a major threat, then offered them the Ancient Insects’ origin as a reason to cooperate.
• Ziyue and Baiyu agreed to follow Chen Qing into the Dragon Palace’s depths, while Ziyue considered how the weapon-making knowledge could help them defend Liuzhou.
• As they crossed the abyss, Chen Qing recognized it as planned but never implemented game content and wondered whether the world was still being updated.

Chen Qing led Murong Yunji, Ziyue, and Baiyu through a lightless abyss filled with monstrous biological weapons sealed behind transparent walls. Ziyue realized Chen Qing had another reason for entering the core palace when her touch caused a purple light to spread across the barrier.

• Chen Qing and the others descended through the abyss, where their sight and spiritual perception were limited to a few meters.
• Ziyue briefly summoned starlight, revealing that countless horrifying creatures watched them from behind glasslike walls.
• Chen Qing called the creatures test subjects and said the Abyss Wall, a prism spell formation made from a special substance, kept them sealed inside.
• Ziyue questioned why Chen Qing sought biological weapons when his Divine Path faith could strengthen his military, and he replied that pursuing multiple paths was worthwhile.
• Ziyue stepped out of Chen Qing's wind corridor and pressed her hand against the transparent barrier despite the straw puppet's warning.
• Purple light spread from Ziyue's hand across the barrier, and she accused Chen Qing of having a hidden reason for staying in the core palace.

Ziyue, Baiyu, and Murong realized Chen Qing had come to claim the immense high-quality jade sealing the monsters, and they confronted him over hiding his goal. When they blocked his escape, Chen Qing tried to flee by charging toward the jade wall and the creatures sealed within it.

• Ziyue recognized that jade, not ice or glass, sealed the monsters, and Baiyu and Murong moved to block Chen Qing.
• Baiyu explained that the jadeite could store spell energy, and Murong understood that Chen Qing wanted the enormous deposit as a strategic resource.
• Ziyue confronted Chen Qing for concealing the treasure, and he admitted he had come seeking revenge because they had seized his territory and killed his subordinates.
• Chen Qing announced that he would run, then used lightning and swirling moisture to charge toward Baiyu.
• Murong intercepted Chen Qing with her wind techniques, but he abruptly changed course and rammed toward the jade and the sealed creatures.

Chen Qing entered the Dragon Palace’s jade wall and discovered that it contained a vast spatial formation imprisoning biological weapons. As he raced toward the dangerous Heavenly Ghost Octopus, the monster attacked him, while Ziyue, Murong, and Baiyu were caught in the same tentacle storm.

• Chen Qing passed through the jade wall, and Ziyue realized it was a spatial formation and led Murong and Baiyu inside after him.
• Chen Qing learned that the formation held biological weapons in jade cages and searched for the creature he needed.
• A jade wall identified the Heavenly Ghost Octopus, a monster Chen Qing had designed that could grow into a calamity-class threat.
• The octopus’s tentacles dragged Chen Qing into a violent seawater storm.
• Ziyue explained that the Dragon Palace’s spatial cage could contain a realm larger than the Central Plains, before tentacles emerged from the darkness and swept toward her group.

Ziyue, Murong, and Baiyu fled the seemingly endless tentacles of the Heavenly Ghost Octopus, discovering that fire could hurt it but would not last underwater. Chen Qing also struggled to evade the creature and resolved not to open another spatial gate, since the octopus could escape and grow powerful enough to destroy the world.

• Ziyue, Murong, and Baiyu retreated from the Heavenly Ghost Octopus as its tentacles surrounded and pursued them.
• Murong cut the tentacles apart with wind blades, but the pieces regenerated, attacked independently, and released poisonous black blood.
• Ziyue used purple flames to burn the tentacles, revealing the monster's fear of fire, but the flames quickly faded underwater.
• Chen Qing evaded the octopus and recalled that its severed tentacles carried potent neurotoxin and could overwhelm enemies through sheer numbers.
• Chen Qing decided not to cross into another space because the starving octopus would follow him and could escape the Abyss Jade Bi if it grew any larger.

Ziyue, Baiyu, and Murong Yunji escaped the tentacled monster by following Chen Qing through a passage into another space. There, the monster followed them and collided with the new space’s hair-strand creature, leaving the two monsters fighting.

• Ziyue reasoned that Chen Qing was still searching for the passage mechanism and persuaded Baiyu to reveal his location, forty thousand zhang below them.
• Baiyu said Chen Qing was circling near the likely mechanism, and Ziyue guessed he was delaying because he feared the monster would escape with him.
• A powerful disturbance shook the space, the tentacles withdrew, and Ziyue realized Chen Qing had opened the spatial barrier.
• Murong Yunji guided Ziyue and Baiyu through the spatial turbulence into a bright, colorful sea.
• Ziyue warned them that the drifting strands were dangerous, and Murong Yunji saw one pierce a fish and drag it into the seabed quicksand.
• The tentacled monster pursued them into the new space, where the strands turned into sharp spikes and attacked it as the two monsters began to clash.

Ziyue, Murong Yunji, and Baiyu watched the Heavenly Ghost Octopus defeat and consume the Earth Fiend Jellyfish, revealing its terrifying ability to convert prey into rapid growth. Chen Qing opened another passage to escape the strengthening monster, while Xiao Mingxue and her companions received his directions to Dragon Transformation sites and reconsidered what to seize first.

• The Heavenly Ghost Octopus used its siphoning force to tear open the seabed, pull out the Earth Fiend Jellyfish, and swallow it as Ziyue, Murong Yunji, and Baiyu fled.
• Ziyue saw the octopus rapidly convert the jellyfish’s energy into flesh and feared what it might become if it reached the ten thousand flood dragons outside.
• Chen Qing realized the Heavenly Ghost Octopus had countered the Earth Fiend Jellyfish and was growing stronger, so he opened a passage to another space and considered using the eldest princess’s single-use contact spell.
• Xiao Mingxue noticed Chen Qing’s mark and learned that he had sent directions to Dragon Transformation locations.
• Xiao Mingxue, Shen Laowu, and Prince Consort Fei weighed the dangers and benefits of the Dragon Palace’s treasures, inheritances, and Dragon Transformation species, deciding that the species were the most urgent targets.