Recaps

Fang Weiyan expanded refugee relief and strengthened his territory before marching to stop a rebellion in Yanhuai City. Emperor Kaide died after naming him heir, and Fang Weiyan began rebuilding the Jiang Kingdom while seeking incense offerings to restore its weakened Yin Gods.

• Fang Weiyan housed and fed refugees, expanded construction, and secured supplies from Earth and medicinal rootlets from Divine Farmer Valley.
• Fang Weiyan appointed Fude as Pingjiang City's City God, strengthened him with incense offerings, and ordered the execution of demons that had eaten people.
• Princess Jin'an received a warning of rebellion from her dying koi and sent Qiao'er to Fang Weiyan, who prepared troops and enlisted the Dragon King's help.
• The emperor’s maternal uncle seized Yanhuai City with rebel troops while Lady Black Mountain attacked its Yin Gods, and Princess Jin'an became a Yin God to resist them.
• Fang Weiyan's army routed the rebels with gasoline weapons while Tao Lingluo and the Dragon King drove off the centipede spirit.
• The mortally wounded Emperor Kaide arranged Fang Weiyan's marriage to Princess Jin'an and named him heir to the Jiang Kingdom before dying.
• Fang Weiyan abolished farming taxes and corvée labor, funded recruitment examinations, and launched state farming, road construction, and factories with supplies from Earth.
• Fang Weiyan recharged Tao Lingluo's peach branch with a generator and collected incense offerings on Earth, but Yunxi warned that their purple grade exceeded the Yin Gods' current needs.

Fang Weiyan strengthened the Jiang Kingdom through reforms and harvests, then ascended Mount Kunxu and became a Human Sovereign. As he expanded the kingdom’s infrastructure and welcomed the Mountain Spirit, envoys from other dynasties arrived to assess his rule.

• Fang Weiyan advanced reforms across the Jiang Kingdom, investigated abuses by officials and local gentry, and prepared for the trials at Mount Kunxu.
• Tao Lingluo tracked down and killed the centipede spirit, while Yunxi reported that she had grown stronger and the attacks on Yanhuai City had eased.
• Fang Weiyan’s investments in roads, boats, cement, and relief helped produce a huge harvest, and the Jiang Kingdom’s national strength rose.
• Fang Weiyan ascended Mount Kunxu, passed the trials with the Jiang Kingdom’s grain and fortune, and became a Human Sovereign alongside two other rulers.
• Fang Weiyan received treasures and Human Sovereign powers, introduced new currency, and planned trade, construction, and preparations for contact with other dynasties.
• The Mountain Spirit came to serve Fang Weiyan after his declaration of seeking peace and prosperity, and Tao Lingluo later told him of her concerns about being exploited.
• Fang Weiyan sent Weiwei to bring rain to drought-stricken regions as envoys from several dynasties entered the Jiang Kingdom and marveled at its cement roads.
• Fang Weiyan ordered the court to supply incense and candles, hosted Yunxi for hot pot, and reviewed reports of expanded cultivation as his inspectors continued purging corrupt local officials and gentry.

Fang Weiyan built up the Jiang Kingdom, secured the Mountain Spirits’ allegiance, and prepared for the opening of the Land of Ten Thousand Witherings. The first attacks were repelled with firearms, but sentient Yin Gods later overwhelmed Weiwei’s defenders until Tao Lingluo arrived.

• Fang Weiyan turned down the foreign envoys’ offers of submission, opened trade, and began planning steelworks and other industrial projects.
• Fang Weiyan claimed Heavenly Dew Mountain for the Jiang Kingdom, and Weiwei killed its Mountain Lord before allowing the remaining demons to stay if they stopped harming people.
• Fang Weiyan bought firearms on Earth, trained Lin Liyun’s soldiers to use them, and welcomed Weiwei’s Mountain Spirit clan after they sought his immortal peaches.
• Fang Weiyan opened the passage to the Land of Ten Thousand Witherings and ordered Lin Liyun to build defenses while the Corpse Emperor sent forces to attack it.
• Fang Weiyan and Weiwei discovered sinister creatures gathering near the passage, and Empress Wanxi warned him that they seemed more organized and intelligent than before.
• Lin Liyun’s soldiers used machine guns to repel the first wave without casualties, while Fang Weiyan kept the Yin Gods away from the Jiang Kingdom’s cities.
• The Corpse Sovereign ordered his forces to seize the passages, while Fang Weiyan expanded a trade deal for medicinal rootlets and Fukanglingding brought hope to a boy with diabetes.
• More than two hundred Yin Gods surrounded Weiwei and her clanswomen, but Tao Lingluo arrived and destroyed countless attackers with lightning from her peach wood weapon.