Recaps

An Weiyan used his ability to travel between worlds to feed and organize the starving people of Linbei County while building his divine power and preparing for growing demon threats. In the main world, he publicized Cloud-Stilling Temple through successful fortune-telling, drawing a crowd of potential worshippers.

• Fang Weiyan escaped the female ghost with Fude’s help, then agreed to become Linbei County’s magistrate in exchange for divine protection and discovered he could travel between worlds.
• An Weiyan brought rice to starving Linbei County, organized relief and farm work, and learned that the weakened Land God needed stronger incense offerings.
• An Weiyan read poetry to improve his abilities, recorded the county’s people and land, and learned that the female ghost could grow much stronger by claiming the peach tree demon’s corpse.
• An Weiyan settled at Cloud-Stilling Temple, used divination to help Officer Liang locate seven fugitives, and gained 750,000 in reward money after requesting publicity for the temple.
• An Weiyan bought more food for Linbei County, recruited and trained thirty men, and urged the residents to prepare offerings as the Land God’s power dwindled.
• After news reports drew visitors to Cloud-Stilling Temple, An Weiyan observed that worshippers’ essence, Qi, and spirit strengthened incense offerings.
• An Weiyan predicted a career opportunity for Lin Feng, asked him to bring more worshippers if the prediction came true, and watched a crowd gather around the temple.

Fang Weiyan rebuilt Linbei County, drew worshippers to Cloud-Stilling Temple, and helped Zhou Wenfei find his son. As demons gathered and Tao Lingluo entered the county, Silver Scale passed her Human Tribulation with help from the wishing pool and Golden Crow’s divine light, and Fang Weiyan brought her back to the temple.

• An Weiyan accepted golden-thread nanmu from the woodcutters, inspected the growing fields, and organized refugees to repair Linbei County and reclaim farmland.
• The Koi King warned her children about their Human Tribulations, while Silver Scale and her siblings faced danger and the Koi King searched for a safe place for them.
• An Weiyan developed the county, opened free incense offerings at Cloud-Stilling Temple, and built a wishing pool where Silver Scale collected coins and used worshippers’ wishes to improve their luck.
• Fang Weiyan and the Earth God strengthened their cooperation through incense, and the Earth God warned that the peach tree demon had died in its tribulation as mountain spirits prepared to attack Linbei County.
• Zhou Wenfei followed Fang Weiyan’s reading to Bao Chongliang and confirmed through a paternity test that the boy was his missing son.
• Fang Weiyan recruited villagers to Linbei County and accepted Tao Lingluo, a remnant peach tree demon, on the condition that she harmed no innocent people and stayed out of his government compound.
• Fang Weiyan dreamed that the Koi King begged him to spare her daughter, then released Silver Scale into a river so she could complete her Human Tribulation.
• Silver Scale explained that the wishing-pool coins and Golden Crow’s divine light helped her pass without karmic power, and Fang Weiyan agreed to return her to the wishing pool.

Fang Weiyan strengthened Linbei County, gained the help of Tao Lingluo and the koi, and was summoned to Yanhuai City as the Jiang Kingdom faced a succession crisis and conflict with the Dragon King. Emperor Kaide considered giving Fang authority over a commandery, while conspirators plotted against the Dragon King’s offspring and Fang tested his luck in Cloudwater City.

• Fang Weiyan used the koi’s blessings to improve his fortune, expanded his armed yamen runners, and distributed cabbage and other provisions to Linbei County’s people and refugees.
• Fang Weiyan enlisted Tao Lingluo with promises of fertilizer, and her cultivation helped accelerate the growth of his crops.
• Fang Weiyan sent Cheng Feng and his men to Pingshui City, where they sold glass marbles, gathered supplies, and reported on the kingdom’s weakening succession and the emperor’s interest in Linbei County.
• The Earth God warned Fang Weiyan that the emperor would summon him, and Fang Weiyan prepared the county before departing secretly for Yanhuai City with Cheng Feng and Lin Liyun.
• Fang Weiyan reached the capital, heard reports of heartless corpses and the Dragon King’s attacks on tax ships, and advised Emperor Kaide against fighting while the kingdom was weak.
• Emperor Kaide asked Fang Weiyan to serve the Jiang Kingdom, and Fang Weiyan requested authority over a commandery so he could improve people’s lives, and Princess Yongning supported granting his request.
• Fang Weiyan gave Qiao'er a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, while conspirators plotted to kill the Dragon King’s offspring during its human tribulation.
• Fang Weiyan tested his luck in Cloudwater City, won two hundred thousand from scratch-off tickets, and returned to Yanhuai City after nightfall.

Fang Weiyan took control of Jiangling Commandery, exposed corruption, and began rebuilding Pingshui City while preparing to make the territory prosperous enough to become a Human Sovereign. After saving the Dragon King's son and arranging a trade for spirit-medicine rootlets, he returned to face the urgent problem of housing residents whose homes had been damaged by rain.

• Emperor Kaide appointed Fang Weiyan governor of Jiangling Commandery, gave him authority to deal with obstructive officials, and entrusted him with a protective rootlet.
• Fang Weiyan arrived in Pingjiang City, disarmed the local bailiffs, imprisoned corrupt officials, gathered testimony, and ordered Squire Lin and his accomplices executed and their estates confiscated.
• Fang Weiyan established a paid work-relief program, recruited workers, distributed grain wages, and organized repairs to Pingshui City's streets, walls, drainage, and homes.
• The Dragon King's son entered his Human Tribulation and was caught and wounded by men plotting to provoke the Dragon King, but Fang Weiyan used the rootlet to save him.
• The Dragon King thanked Fang Weiyan and denied sinking boats, while Fang Weiyan learned how a ruler could become a Human Sovereign and resolved to strengthen Jiangling Commandery through better governance.
• Fang Weiyan expanded relief and development plans, discovered Divine Farmer Valley, and traded fertilizer for spirit-medicine rootlets and medicinal liquid through Tao Lingluo and Uncle Bai.
• Fang Weiyan met Su Qingyun to arrange testing and development of medicines from the rootlets, then returned to Pingshui City after heavy rain left residents sick and without adequate shelter.
• Fang Weiyan ordered Tao Lingluo to prepare rootlet medicine for the sick residents and learned that the city lacked enough habitable houses, leaving him to confront the housing shortage.