Recaps

Chen Qing organized the Central Federation’s mass entry into the new world while investigating Northern Wolf City’s submission and the danger surrounding its hidden rulers. The trail led to vanished family heads, a frightening presence in the palace, and a possible threat linked to the Four Great Guilds.

• David showed Kaidi footage of Chen Qing defeating the special-class fighters, and the four federations surrendered before the Central Federation’s troops reached the front.
• Chen Qing secured agreement for a hundred million Central Federation entrants, including ten thousand who could retain their memories, and arranged for Wang Ye to help investigate his origins.
• Chen Qing prepared the Underworld for the incoming souls, ordered Tian Heng to recruit for the West Sea, and approved a separate island administration for the foreigners.
• Chen Qing traveled north to investigate Ziyue’s capture of Northern Wolf City, learned from Xu Hu that Nezha had secured the North Sea Underworld, and discovered that Murong Yunji was Ziyue’s captive.
• Chen Qing met the Poison Mother, which admitted it wanted a powerful vengeful Spirit inside Northern Wolf City but feared the consequences of destroying the city.
• Chen Qing and Shen Qi learned that Northern Wolf had submitted to Jiangnan and that its emperor and several great family heads had vanished from public view.
• Dowager Consort Beiyu and Empress Yun confronted Qi Long over Empress Dowager Qi’s black lantern, but Qi Long disappeared when Beiyu moved to seize it.
• Chen Qing found human remains in Old Master Beiyu’s seclusion chamber, suspected family heads were being eaten, and asked the Beiyu Family to investigate while he searched for the hidden threat.

Chen Qing escaped the Spirit Ghost and refused the Xiao Household emperor’s offer, then worked to secure the northern demons and refugees as the emperor built a ghost-powered army. The arc left the great families confronting the devastated Central Plains while refugees found a safer welcome in Jiangnan.

• Chen Qing and Shen Qi evaded the Spirit Ghost, learned the Black Queen had died, and discovered that Wang Shiyu’s group needed Chen Qing to control Ghost Child.
• Chen Qing joined the attack on King Xiang, but the Xiao Household emperor’s Golden Crow Flame killed the players, and Chen Qing survived, rejected the emperor’s alliance, and set out to meet Ziyue.
• The Divine Martial Guild asked Chen Qing to send troops north, and after weighing his depleted forces and political risks, Chen Qing refused to abandon North Sea City and went to negotiate with the northern demons.
• The Xiao Household emperor and King Xiang prepared a force of ghost-empowered soldiers, while Dahu and a Nether Moon envoy told northern refugees they could travel safely to Jiangnan or Northern Yan.
• Refugees reached North Sea City and found food, protection, and prosperity, while noble families who chose the Central Plains reached deserted cities and discovered mass graves and demon attacks.

Chen Qing prepared Jiangnan to seize the north while using reincarnation and political pressure to divide the Federation’s factions. Wang Ye helped Xu Min’s rebellion destroy the disintegration programs, forcing the great households to concede new rules for entry into the virtual world.

• The emperor announced a spring campaign to reclaim the north, and Yuchi drank black blood wine before the emperor promised that those responsible for the suffering would pay.
• Chen Qing ordered Jiangnan’s leaders to prepare for war, while Ziyue arranged to borrow five hundred thousand soldiers from Great Yan and Han Lin began recruiting Northern Yan’s herdsmen as combat troops.
• Chen Qing entered the Land of the Void and learned that the players’ control of the Heavenly Python Palace depended on bloodline contracts, then demanded that guild leaders inform for him as he took northern territory in the court’s name.
• Ziyue appointed Murong Bingyun to oversee Northern Yan’s Underworld, where he offered souls from beyond the heavens limited chances to reincarnate into great families and pressured them to choose quickly.
• Chen Qing used the reincarnation slots to divide the Federation delegation, while Wang Ye recruited grassroots allies and secretly organized an effort to locate and destroy the disintegration programs.
• Wang Ye and Xu Min’s allies used intelligence and insiders to strike Data City’s data centers, destroying many disintegration programs as rank-and-file forces joined the revolt.
• Xu Min publicly exposed the unequal enforcement of the disintegration program and demanded its abolition and fair access to the new world, while rejecting calls to eliminate the aristocratic families.
• Chen Qing judged the coup settled as the great households agreed to abolish disintegration restrictions, restructure parliament, and open virtual-world entry through a Federation-wide scholarly and martial examination.

As the Federation opened its new-world selection to the public, Ziyue received an invitation to Cloud Capital’s first Celestial Master succession assembly in ten thousand years. The Four Symbols Gate trials began with Zhang Zhiyun’s lethal illusion and the reveal of forbidden Flying Jiangshi Guards.

• Xu Min and Gong Mingrui defended the open selection against scholars who demanded a separate system, and Wang Ye announced the exam rules as millions took the test.
• Ren Xiaotian, Qi Lin, and Su Hui left the institutes for a chance to enter the new world, while King Xiang’s ghost soldiers moved against the emperor and Chen Qing offered grain to refugees.
• Cloud Capital invited Ziyue and other rulers to its Celestial Master selection, and Ziyue told Chen Qing that warlocks had captured and experimented on her while searching for transmigrators.
• Chen Qing and Ziyue traveled to Cloud Capital, where they and their companions discovered that people forgot the city’s customs and connections after leaving it.
• Old Celestial Master Zhang welcomed Ziyue as a candidate, and she recovered memories of serving as the mansion’s foremost artifact mage and mastering more than a thousand artifacts.
• Old Celestial Master Zhang revealed that the Four Saints Guard would serve whoever became Celestial Master, and the assembled families began choosing which gates to challenge.
• Chen Ying joined Jiangnan students at Ziyue’s Vermilion Bird Gate, while Chen Ye entered Zhang Zhiyun’s White Tiger Gate alongside Su Changqing.
• Zhang Zhiyun’s wind illusion killed or frightened many White Tiger Gate contestants, but Su Changqing passed the trial and found Chen Ying and Chen Ye inside.
• Zhang Zhiyun revealed towering Flying Jiangshi Guards beyond the mist, causing three more candidates to withdraw as the elders noticed the Duke of Qin, Lu Ming, among the spectators.