Recaps

On the day of his Martial Soul Awakening, Lin Yuan manifested the Imperial Bow, a divine-quality bow linked to Lan, the Aeon of the Hunt, and awakened Innate Full Soul Power. Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall to conceal the truth while Lin Yuan became Guang Ling’s disciple, and far away Lan noticed that someone had borrowed a sliver of his authority.

• Lin Yuan awakened the Imperial Bow, and its manifestation summoned a projection of Lan that shook Spirit City and drew the attention of Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, and Tang Chen.
• Lin Yuan tested at Innate Full Soul Power, and Light Feather Douluo Guang Ling claimed him as his disciple after his own bow Martial Soul reacted to the Imperial Bow.
• Lin Yuan accepted Guang Ling as his master, and Qian Daoliu ordered the Worship Hall to conceal the bow’s divine nature and describe it as an ordinary mutated bow Martial Soul.
• Lan sensed that someone in another universe had borrowed his authority, while Aha mocked him before Lan resumed pursuing the Abominations of Abundance.

Qian Daoliu brought the sealed Ambrosial Arbor to the Angel Temple and ordered Spirit Hall to treat it as a highest secret, allowing only himself and Lin Yuan to approach it. Qian Xunji then revealed that Spirit Hall had noticed an unusually vigorous Blue Silver Grass soul master traveling with Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, whom Lin Yuan suspected was Ah Yin.

• Qian Daoliu stopped Qian Xunji from probing the sealed Ambrosial Arbor and warned him that it could cause endless growth, mutation, and destruction.
• Lin Yuan explained how Abundance twisted living things, and Qian Daoliu ordered the Ambrosial Arbor sealed beneath the Angel Temple under strict restrictions.
• Qian Xunji agreed to suppress information about the Ambrosial Arbor and prevent anyone from approaching its chamber without permission.
• Qian Xunji told Qian Daoliu that an unknown woman with powerful life energy and an apparent Blue Silver Grass martial soul was traveling with Tang Hao and Tang Xiao.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Spirit Hall to monitor the group rather than act without evidence, while Lin Yuan privately suspected the woman was the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin.

Lin Yuan killed an Abundance abomination and uncovered an Evil Soul Master laboratory hidden beneath a glacier, where nearly a hundred captives were held. As he entered the stronghold’s central passage to confront a powerful creation of Abundance, Shui Yunlan and Xue Qinglan reached a Spirit Hall Branch with his Imperial Bow Token, and his warning arrow arrived.

• Lin Yuan killed the Abomination of Abundance, kept a fragment of its pill shell, and fired a warning toward the Spirit Hall Branch.
• Lin Yuan infiltrated an ice cavern, killed its guards, and found records detailing the deadly mutations caused by Abundance pills.
• Lin Yuan freed nearly a hundred captives from an ice chamber and told the Skywater Academy teachers to wait while he continued alone toward a powerful Abundance presence.
• Shui Yunlan and Xue Qinglan told the Spirit Hall Branch master that Evil Soul Masters had abducted Skywater Academy members, and Xue Qinglan presented Lin Yuan’s Imperial Bow Token.
• The branch master ordered Soul Masters to assemble, but the token began vibrating as Lin Yuan’s warning arrow streaked toward the branch.

Lin Yuan infiltrated the Evil Soul Masters’ ice-cave base and discovered they used an Ambrosial Arbor fragment to make Abominations grow flesh for pills, with captives’ blood and vital essence serving as catalysts. Faced with a powerful Soul Douluo and civilians at risk, he left to rescue the prisoners first, intending to return and hunt the sect afterward.

• Lin Yuan used Hunting Sense to evade patrols and silently killed Evil Soul Masters who blocked his way.
• Lin Yuan found an underground chamber where Evil Soul Masters used an Ambrosial Arbor fragment to stimulate six chained Abominations of Abundance and harvest their regenerating flesh.
• Lin Yuan watched the Furnace Keeper refine the Abominations’ flesh with the blood and vital essence of captive civilians, and learned that captives from Skywater Academy were being saved for medicine tests.
• Lin Yuan recognized the Furnace Keeper as an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo and judged that fighting in the chamber would endanger the captives and nearly one hundred civilians.
• Lin Yuan avoided two guards, left the chamber, and set out to rescue the captives before returning to attack the Evil Soul Masters.

Lin Yuan led the Skywater Academy teachers and nearly a hundred civilians out of the ice cave, but the Evil Soul Masters discovered their escape and raised the alarm. He stayed behind at the exit to cover the retreat as pursuers closed in.

• Lin Yuan killed two Evil Soul Masters outside the prison and guided the civilians through the ice cave, silently eliminating a patrolling guard along the way.
• Five Evil Soul Masters found the prison empty, and the Soul King sounded the alarm throughout the ice cave.
• Lin Yuan kept the panicking civilians moving toward the exit as dozens of Soul Power signatures converged on them.
• Lin Yuan ordered the Skywater Academy teacher to take the civilians south and remained behind to delay the pursuers.
• Lin Yuan unleashed a storm of cyan-blue arrows against the charging Evil Soul Masters, then turned to face the rest alone.

Lin Yuan held off the Evil Soul Masters in the ice passage and killed three Soul Kings despite his wounds and dwindling Soul Power. The Furnace Keeper emerged with eight Soul Rings and confronted him over the deaths of his Medicine Keepers.

• Lin Yuan fought through the Evil Soul Masters’ attacks, killing their gray-winged Soul King with Soul Lock and their black-saber Soul King with Heavenfall Arrow.
• The Blood Wolf Soul King swallowed a sacred pill and charged Lin Yuan, but Lin Yuan shot through his eye and skull, killing him.
• The remaining Evil Soul Masters hesitated as Lin Yuan stood among the fallen and challenged them to send the next attacker.
• A blast from the pill furnace shook the ice cave, and the Furnace Keeper emerged, revealing eight Soul Rings and a dark green medicinal cauldron phantom.
• The Furnace Keeper accused Lin Yuan of killing three Medicine Keepers and said he had found the main ingredient for his batch of pills.

Lin Yuan brought down the Medicine King Holy Church’s northern stronghold and was buried beneath the collapsing iceberg, while Mu Xuansheng was buried with the Ambrosial Arbor fragment. The eruption of Abundance awakened a white-haired woman, and a messenger collapsed outside Spirit City with an Imperial Bow Token and warning of trouble in the Far North.

• Mu Xuansheng and the remaining Evil Soul Masters pursued Lin Yuan through the ice passages, but he killed several of them and secretly planted Soul Power marks in the supporting ice pillars.
• Lin Yuan lured his pursuers into the central chamber, revealed his marks across the stronghold, and detonated them, causing the iceberg to collapse.
• Lin Yuan borrowed power from Aha’s smiling mask and was buried beneath the ice, while Mu Xuansheng reached for the Ambrosial Arbor fragment and triggered a burst of Abundance before being buried as well.
• A white-haired woman awakened in an ice-sealed cave abode and sensed the power of Abundance from the Far North.
• A six-ring Soul Emperor collapsed outside Spirit City after delivering an Imperial Bow Token and cyan-blue arrow, warning that Abundance had appeared and something had happened in the Far North.

Lin Yuan emerged from the collapsed iceberg and found himself beside the Snow Empress and Ice Empress as Mu Xuansheng rose from the ruins fused with the Ambrosial Arbor. The Arbor transformed Mu Xuansheng into a monstrous Titled Douluo, and he charged at Lin Yuan.

• Lin Yuan crawled out from beneath the iceberg and encountered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, who were investigating the spreading golden wisps.
• Mu Xuansheng burst from the ruins with the Ambrosial Arbor fused to his right hand and blamed Lin Yuan for destroying his base.
• Mu Xuansheng drove the Ambrosial Arbor into his chest, and its power transformed his body while forcing his Soul Power past Level 90.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress that Di Tian had warned her years earlier that this power caused life and flesh to grow uncontrollably.
• The Ice Empress tried to freeze Mu Xuansheng's branches, but they regenerated, and he lunged at Lin Yuan with the power of a Titled Douluo.

The Ice Empress shattered Mu Xuansheng, but he regenerated, and the Snow Empress explained that only The Hunt could truly destroy him. Aha lent Lin Yuan power to fire again, but its arrow turned into fireworks that dealt Mu Xuansheng only one point of damage.

• The Ice Empress froze and shattered Mu Xuansheng, but he regenerated and returned to his full strength.
• The Snow Empress explained that Mu Xuansheng was undying while the Ambrosial Arbor's power remained, and that The Hunt could eradicate him.
• The Ice Empress urged Lin Yuan to use The Hunt, but he said his Soul Power was exhausted.
• Aha poured red-and-white power into Lin Yuan, restoring his strength, and he fired an arrow at Mu Xuansheng.
• The arrow burst into fireworks and displayed “HP-1,” while Aha laughed and called it a specially made firework arrow.

Lin Yuan used his final arrow to sever the Ambrosial Arbor’s connection to Mu Xuansheng, ending Mu Xuansheng’s transformation and killing him. Lin Yuan collapsed from exhaustion, and the Snow Empress took him and the sealed Arbor deeper into the Far North because he was the only one who could control it.

• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress pinned Mu Xuansheng in place while Lin Yuan used his Hunting Sense to find the Ambrosial Arbor’s weakest connection.
• Lin Yuan fired his last arrow and severed the Arbor from Mu Xuansheng, causing Mu Xuansheng’s power and transformed body to collapse.
• The Ice Empress froze Mu Xuansheng and shattered him, while Lin Yuan passed out after exhausting his power.
• The Snow Empress sealed the Ambrosial Arbor and Lin Yuan’s arrow inside ten-thousand-year profound ice.
• The Snow Empress ordered the Ice Empress to bring Lin Yuan to the Far North, explaining that he was the only one who could control the Arbor.

Lin Yuan explained The Hunt to the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, then agreed to remove the Ambrosial Arbor once he recovered. The Snow Empress strengthened its seal and required Lin Yuan to return if its power appeared in the Far North again, while the mask continued to irritate everyone.

• Lin Yuan woke in the Snow Empress's cave and used the Imperial Bow to turn the Ambrosial Arbor's escaped roots to ash.
• The mask appeared before the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, escaped the Ice Empress's attack, and prompted Lin Yuan to explain that The Hunt pursued Abundance and its abominations.
• Lin Yuan said another section of the Ambrosial Arbor was sealed beneath Spirit City and agreed to take the Far North section there after recovering.
• The Snow Empress resealed the Ambrosial Arbor with ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and asked Lin Yuan to return if its power appeared in the Far North again.
• Lin Yuan began recovering as the mask sang until the Snow Empress froze it into the ice wall.

After recovering in the Snow Empress's cave, Lin Yuan prepared to carry the sealed Ambrosial Arbor out of the Far North and meet the Titled Douluo who had come looking for him. He left the cave with the smiling mask, while the Snow Empress foresaw that his future would bring little peace.

• Lin Yuan woke after three days of recovery and confirmed that the Ambrosial Arbor remained active inside its profound ice case.
• The Snow Empress compressed and sealed the case, and Lin Yuan secured it to his back while using the Power of The Hunt to contain its cold and presence.
• The Ice Empress told Lin Yuan that Azure Luan Douluo and Light Feather Douluo were approaching from the outskirts after the rescued Skywater Academy people had left the Far North.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress gave Lin Yuan an ice crystal carrying their presence to help keep ordinary Soul Beasts from attacking him in the Far North.
• Lin Yuan left the cave carrying the Ambrosial Arbor, while the smiling mask followed and bickered with him through the snowfields.
• The Snow Empress said Lin Yuan's future might be more dangerous than the snowstorm and predicted that wherever he went, there would be no peace.

Lin Yuan reunited with Light Feather Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo, then revealed that the Medicine King Holy Church had used the Ambrosial Arbor to refine medicine with living people. Spirit Hall linked the disappearances to the public-facing Life-Saving Hall, and Lin Yuan and Light Feather Douluo set out for Nuoding City to investigate.

• Light Feather Douluo found Lin Yuan in the Far North and embraced him, while Azure Luan Douluo joined them.
• Lin Yuan showed them the Ambrosial Arbor and described the Medicine King Holy Church’s captives and pill-making operation beneath the iceberg.
• Light Feather Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo connected the disappearances across the empires to the expanding Life-Saving Hall and mobilized Spirit Hall’s intelligence network.
• Spirit Hall’s investigation traced the earliest Life-Saving Hall branches to Fasinuo Province, including Nuoding City.
• Lin Yuan decided to investigate Nuoding City with Light Feather Douluo, carrying the Ambrosial Arbor so he could keep it suppressed.

Lin Yuan infiltrated the Life-Saving Hall in Nuoding City by having five hundred copies of its scripture made and was appointed an outer guard, giving him a chance to investigate its medicine routes. Meanwhile, the Medicine King Holy Church’s leader, Yao Changsheng, learned that Mu Xuansheng was dead and ordered his Medicine Envoys to find the killer and the missing Sacred Tree.

• Lin Yuan and Guang Ling entered Nuoding City and saw the Life-Saving Hall distribute pills that Lin Yuan sensed were tainted with Abundance.
• Old Jack brought Tang San to the Life-Saving Hall, where Tang San accepted free medicine and briefly noticed Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan asked to join the hall, and its shopkeeper demanded that he copy its scripture five hundred times.
• Lin Yuan hired fifty scholars to complete the copies overnight, then revealed his four Soul Rings and became an outer guard tasked with escorting medicinal supplies.
• Yao Changsheng learned that the Far North branch had lost contact, Mu Xuansheng’s soul tablet had shattered, and the Sacred Tree was missing; he ordered the Medicine Envoys to investigate.

Lin Yuan organized Spirit Hall reinforcements to raid Life-Saving Hall and capture its two Soul Emperor stewards, but their arrival alerted Tang Hao. Believing Tang San might be in danger, Tang Hao left him a letter and headed for the Spirit Hall Branch, where he confronted its guards just before the planned assault.

• Lin Yuan mapped Life-Saving Hall's operations and learned that its two stewards were Soul Emperors who knew the location of a higher-level base.
• Lin Yuan and Guang Ling arranged a Spirit Hall operation, bringing twelve experts to seal Life-Saving Hall's passages and arrest its core members the following night.
• Tang Hao sensed the Spirit Hall experts gathering in Nuoding City and suspected they had discovered him and might threaten Tang San.
• Tang Hao left Tang San a letter with Old Jack, then set out to strike at the Spirit Hall presence in the city.
• With less than six hours remaining before the raid, Tang Hao arrived at the Spirit Hall Branch, where two Soul Kings challenged him.

Tang Hao’s attack on the Spirit Hall Branch disrupted Lin Yuan’s planned raid on the Medicine King Holy Church, allowing one steward to escape while the other was captured. With Guang Ling confronting Tang Hao, Lin Yuan led his forces toward the branch and vowed that no one would leave Nuoding City unscathed.

• Tang Hao smashed into the Spirit Hall Branch and killed a Soul Saint, severely wounded another, and devastated the building.
• Guang Ling confronted Tang Hao, and their Titled Douluo presences sent Nuoding City into turmoil.
• Lin Yuan launched the raid on the Medicine King Holy Church’s hideout, captured one Soul Emperor steward, and lost the other through the western secret passage.
• The captured steward tried to swallow a dark gold pill, but Lin Yuan shot it from his hand and ordered his men to search and restrain him.
• Lin Yuan took his forces to the Spirit Hall Branch, determined to prevent anyone from escaping Nuoding City unscathed.

Tang Hao escaped after attacking the Spirit Hall Branch, leaving many dead and wounded, while Lin Yuan ordered a wanted notice and prepared to interrogate a captured Soul Emperor. He also set plans in motion involving Tang San and Da Shi, leaving the captive facing Lin Yuan’s questions.

• Tang Hao fought Guang Ling at the ruined Spirit Hall Branch, then escaped when Guang Ling stopped to help the wounded.
• At Nuoding Academy, Tang San read a letter from Tang Hao saying he was leaving on a long journey and should not be searched for.
• Lin Yuan ordered a Soul King to retrieve a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake and sent Aha to secretly give Da Shi a delayed-action laxative and record what happened.
• Lin Yuan and Guang Ling arranged aid and compensation for the branch’s casualties, then issued a wanted notice for Tang Hao across the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Lin Yuan went to the underground cells to question the captured Soul Emperor, whose Soul Power and escape tools had been sealed.

After interrogating a captured Medicine King Holy Church Soul Emperor, Lin Yuan uncovered the Hall of Relief’s deep ties to Heaven Dou’s imperial family, nobles, and major clans. He ordered a sweeping purge of its network and secretly told Qian Daoliu to have Xue'er prepare to seize control, leaving the church’s hidden main temple still unknown.

• Spirit Hall's interrogators learned that the captured Soul Emperor could not reveal the Medicine King Holy Church's main temple but exposed the Hall of Relief's extensive influence in Heaven Dou.
• The Soul Emperor revealed that Prince Xue Xing secretly supplied living people for pill refinement, while Emperor Xue Ye tacitly allowed it and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had dealings with the church.
• Lin Yuan concluded that long-term pill users had accumulated the Power of Abundance and ordered them left alone while Spirit Hall investigated the church's branches, storehouses, caravans, and strongholds.
• Lin Yuan ordered Spirit Hall to arrest confirmed core members, kill those who resisted, seize evidence, and distinguish deceived apprentices from people involved in kidnapping, murder, and refining medicine from living people.
• Lin Yuan sent Qian Daoliu a top-secret letter directing him to have Xue'er prepare to take action against Heaven Dou's corrupt leadership and replace those who should be removed.
• Lin Yuan marked Nuoding City's fallen Hall of Relief as only the beginning and vowed to dismantle the Medicine King Holy Church's network across Heaven Dou until its hidden leader was forced to emerge.

Lin Yuan left Nuoding City after ordering Spirit Hall to use Tang San as bait to keep Tang Hao nearby and secretly monitor him. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue prepared to help Lin Yuan dismantle the Hall of Relief, while Spirit Hall forces entered the city to surround and destroy the Medicine King Holy Church.

• Lin Yuan ordered the Nuoding City branch to cancel Grandmaster and Tang San’s stipends, then arranged secret surveillance of Tang San and forbade anyone from acting without his orders.
• Lin Yuan and Guang Ling departed Nuoding City for Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue received Qian Daoliu’s letter about the Hall of Relief and was ordered to cooperate with Lin Yuan, so she began compiling a list of its allies and Prince Xue Xing’s properties.
• Qian Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo led Spirit Hall elites into Heaven Dou City and ordered them to disperse and await Lin Yuan.
• Qian Renxue’s intelligence network uncovered the Hall of Relief’s properties and trade routes as Spirit Hall forces watched its busy headquarters in secret.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue planned to replace Xue Ye and Xue Qinghe with doubles before dismantling the Hall of Relief’s network in Heaven Dou City. After Qian Renxue secured an audience with the Nine Heart Begonia Clan in Lin Yuan’s name, Lin Yuan set out to meet its clan head.

• Qian Renxue gave Lin Yuan her files on the Hall of Relief, including evidence that the Nine Heart Begonia Clan had refused its medicines and that Dugu Bo had rejected it after testing a pill.
• Lin Yuan ordered the group to preserve evidence against Ning Qianshan while leaving Ning Fengzhi alone for the time being.
• Lin Yuan assigned Qian Jun and Jiang Mo to arrange Xue Ye’s death and a double’s return to court, while another double would continue as Xue Qinghe.
• Lin Yuan ordered the group to keep watching the Hall of Relief’s bases and wait for the signal to strike all at once.
• Qian Renxue arranged a visit to the Nine Heart Begonia Clan under Xue Qinghe’s name, and the clan head invited Lin Yuan to meet him.

Lin Yuan revealed to Ye Lingqiu that the Hall of Relief’s life-extending pills were made from living people and could turn long-term users into monsters. He warned that Xue Qinghe planned to move against the Hall, its allies, and anyone who knowingly aided it, then asked what the Nine Heart Begonia Clan would do.

• Lin Yuan offered Ye Lingqiu a pill and discovered she had forbidden her clan from taking medicine from the Hall of Relief because she suspected something was wrong with it.
• Lin Yuan told Ye Lingqiu that the pills were refined from human blood essence and flesh, and that repeated use could mutate people and erase their consciousness.
• Lin Yuan identified the Hall of Relief’s secret organization as the Medicine King Holy Church and described its goal of extending life through the pills.
• Lin Yuan revealed that Heaven Dou nobles, including Prince Xue Xing, supplied people to the Hall of Relief, while Xue Ye knew some of the truth and pretended not to.
• Lin Yuan said Xue Qinghe would soon act against the Hall, its collaborators, and those concealing its crimes, then asked Ye Lingqiu what the Nine Heart Begonia Clan intended to do.

Lin Yuan secured the Nine Heart Begonia Clan’s support, then traveled with Guang Ling to Sunset Forest to find Dugu Bo. While Guang Ling fought Dugu Bo, Lin Yuan reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, revealing it had been his true destination.

• Ye Lingqiu agreed that the Nine Heart Begonia Clan would follow Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and keep their conversation secret.
• Lin Yuan told Qian Renxue that the Ye Clan had agreed to stand with the crown prince, then asked Guang Ling to accompany him to Sunset Forest.
• Guang Ling carried Lin Yuan through Dugu Bo’s poison formation, where Dugu Bo confronted them and fought Guang Ling.
• Lin Yuan left the battle and followed the valley to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Guang Ling defeated Dugu Bo, discovered Lin Yuan at the spring, and realized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been Lin Yuan’s real target.

Lin Yuan confronted Dugu Bo over Spirit Hall’s claim to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and revealed that Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were both being poisoned by their Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul. Dugu Bo agreed to serve Spirit Hall if Lin Yuan could save Dugu Yan, and Lin Yuan offered remedies for them both.

• Dugu Bo realized Spirit Hall wanted his medicinal garden and vowed to defend it, but Lin Yuan exposed the symptoms of the poison afflicting him.
• Lin Yuan warned Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan was also accumulating poison, and Dugu Bo admitted he had been unable to cure her.
• Lin Yuan gave Dugu Bo a choice between dying in a fight with Guang Ling or submitting to Spirit Hall, and Dugu Bo asked whether Lin Yuan could save Dugu Yan.
• Lin Yuan explained that Dugu Yan could use a suitable Soul Bone to contain her toxins, and Dugu Bo recognized that the method would work.
• Lin Yuan said a Soul Bone could only delay Dugu Bo’s own condition and advised him to condense a poison core to gather his toxins and turn them into power.

Dugu Bo formed a poison core, freed himself from the toxins that had plagued him for decades, and pledged allegiance to Spirit Hall. After Lin Yuan revealed the crimes of the Medicine King Holy Church and its noble allies, Dugu Bo agreed to help purge them, while a joke about Dugu Yan marrying Lin Yuan was caught on an Image-Recording Crystal Ball.

• Dugu Bo condensed his poison into a core at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, clearing the toxins from his body without suffering backlash.
• Dugu Bo pledged allegiance to Spirit Hall and acknowledged his debt to Lin Yuan for remembering how to save Dugu Yan.
• Lin Yuan explained that the Hall of Relief's pills contained human Blood Qi and dangerous life force, and that the Medicine King Holy Church abducted people to make medicine with Prince Xue Xing's support.
• Lin Yuan asked Dugu Bo to help purge the Medicine King Holy Church's strongholds and their collaborators, and warned him that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had ties to the organization.
• Dugu Bo proposed that Dugu Yan marry Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan joked that she could only be his concubine because he already had Xue'er.
• Guang Ling and Aha revealed that Aha had recorded Lin Yuan's remark, leaving Lin Yuan embarrassed.

After finding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Yuan returned to Heaven Dou City, where Qian Renxue confronted him over a recording of his remark about taking a concubine. They reconciled, then planned to replace Xue Ye with a double and seize control of the Heaven Dou Empire; the operation was set to begin in three days.

• Lin Yuan decided to bring Yue Guan to identify the herbs in Dugu Bo's garden, then left Sunset Forest with Dugu Bo and Guang Ling.
• Qian Renxue played a recording of Lin Yuan saying she could only be a concubine and angrily confronted him, but Lin Yuan promised she was the only one in his heart and vowed to travel the continent with her.
• Qian Renxue explained the plan to make Xue Ye gravely ill, seal off his bedchamber, and replace him with a prepared double.
• Lin Yuan assigned Dugu Bo to poison Xue Ye and work with Ye Lingqiu to claim they had saved him, while Qian Jun handled the double and Jiang Mo watched Prince Xue Xing's residence and the Hall of Relief.
• Qian Renxue set the operation for three days later, when the empire would appear unchanged but secretly come under their control.