Recaps

Lu Qing'an expanded the Eternal Night Sect by recruiting five Peak Eternal Realm experts and demonstrating his mastery of powerful rules. As his allies pursued a mirror repair and Xue Tianfei negotiated for abandoned businesses, the sect gained influence and its rivals faced the pressure of its strength.

• Li Wensheng brought Li Muchen, Zhang Shundao, Dao Lord Xuexiao, Lava Sage, and Lian Jie to meet Lu Qing'an, after the five had promoted the Eternal Night Sect across the Nine Directions and Ten Domains.
• Lu Qing'an welcomed the five experts into the sect, learned from their techniques, and used the Unification Rule and Mirror Rule to neutralize Zhang Shundao's strongest attack.
• Lu Qing'an deduced the Rule of Vitality from Li Muchen's demonstration and revealed intelligent Demon God Phantoms that could act on his orders.
• Lu Qing'an put Xue Tianfei in charge of directing the new members as she managed the Eternal Night Chamber of Commerce, then gave a Heavenly Mandate Soul Stone vein sentience so Golden Dragon could briefly court it.
• Zhang Shundao and Li Muchen recruited rival artifact refiners Chu Xuantie and Leng Xinghe to repair the Heaven-Seeking Treasure Mirror, but both failed their competing deadlines, so Lu Qing'an had them work together with He Hong and Wang Duanshan.
• Xue Tianfei led Li Muchen, Zhang Shundao, and the other experts into negotiations with the Qilin Chamber of Commerce, where Qilin Saint agreed to pay a third of a Heavenly Mandate Soul Stone vein for its abandoned businesses.
• Xue Tianfei reminded Qilin Saint that he had once humiliated and threatened her during negotiations, explaining that she had returned to make him feel the same treatment.

Lu Qing'an and Xue Tianfei secured the Time Cultivation Tower and Supreme Rule Holy Sphere, while the Eternal Night Sect gathered wealth and allies. The arc ended with the Celestial Master Manor joining the sect and Lu Qing'an announcing his coming wedding to Xue Tianfei.

• Qilin Saint apologized to Xue Tianfei, agreed to cooperate with her chamber of commerce, and rejected the Qilin Chamber of Commerce executives’ calls to oppose the Eternal Night Sect.
• Lu Qing'an activated the repaired Heaven-Seeking Treasure Mirror and led a search that found 110 Heavenly Mandate Soul Stone veins, after which Chu Xuantie and Leng Xinghe joined the Eternal Night Sect.
• At the Nine Directions Pavilion auction, Xue Tianfei won the Time Cultivation Tower and the Supreme Rule Holy Sphere with Lu Qing'an’s support and the sect’s vast resources.
• Lu Qing'an announced the Eternal Night Sect’s upcoming recruitment, while Zhang Shundao and Li Wensong persuaded Zhang Tianshi to bring the Celestial Master Manor into the sect.
• Lu Qing'an proposed to Xue Tianfei, who accepted, and he gathered Heavenly Mandate Soul Stones for her bride price as his system returned with new wedding-related rewards.
• Zhang Tianshi brought the Celestial Master Manor’s tens of thousands of members to the Eternal Night Sect and renamed it the Celestial Master Hall.
• Leaders of small and medium sects submitted to Lu Qing'an, who announced that he would marry Xue Tianfei and left the preparations to Li Wensong and the others.

Lu Qing'an married Xue Tianfei, strengthened his family and allies with treasures, and uncovered the path to the Hongmeng Holy Realm. He arrived there with Li Wensong and began pursuing entry into the Nether Emperor Holy Sect, while Xu Qingying struggled to suppress her feelings for him.

• Lu Qing'an married Xue Tianfei in a grand ceremony, and the system rewarded him with a treasure that raised thirty continents to the Ninth Heaven level.
• After the wedding, Li Wensong revealed his origins in the Hongmeng Holy Realm and explained that Lu Qing'an's former self had concealed the way out of the Nine Directions and Ten Domains.
• Lu Qing'an prepared to leave, gave his family and companions more than a hundred saint-level treasures, and promised to return in a year.
• Lu Qing'an and Li Wensong entered a hidden world and passed through a five-colored portal into the Hongmeng Holy Realm.
• Li Wensong took Lu Qing'an to Underworld Emperor Holy City, where Xu Qingying trained at the Nether Emperor Holy Sect and resolved to follow the Great Dao of Ruthlessness.
• Lu Qing'an absorbed alchemy experience from Dao of Alchemy Master and Xu Xuanyu, passed the Nether Emperor Alchemy Guild's final assessment with Li Wensong, and received an invitation to join the Nether Emperor Holy Sect.

Lu Qing'an joined the Nether Emperor Holy Sect and revealed power that nearly overwhelmed Sect Master Luo Qiushan. His reunion with Xu Qingying led her to abandon the Dao of Heartlessness, while the Nether Emperor arranged help for Lu Qing'an and Li Wensong to pursue the Heavenly Dao of Cause and Effect.

• Li Wensong demonstrated the peak Rule of Cause and Effect, and Luo Qiushan welcomed him and Lu Qing'an to the Nether Emperor Holy Sect.
• Lu Qing'an manifested more than three thousand perfected Rules, then sparred with Luo Qiushan and nearly destroyed her Darkness Domain with his growing power.
• After Lu Qing'an said he already had a dao companion, Liu Jin mistook him for a rival over Xu Qingying, and Lu Qing'an sensed a karmic connection to Liu Jin.
• Liu Jin named Xu Qingying as the person who had been wronged, and Xu Qingying arrived to find her former partner Lu Qing'an alive in the hall.
• Lu Qing'an called himself Xu Qingying's uncle and offered to help her, while she chose to abandon the Dao of Heartlessness rather than sever her feelings for him and their family.
• Luo Qiushan offered to guide Xu Qingying in the Great Dao of Darkness, and Xu Qingying agreed to accompany Lu Qing'an when he sought the Heavenly Dao of the Five Elements.
• Lu Qing'an and Li Wensong settled into neighboring cave abodes, where the Nether Emperor found them after sensing the sect's sudden surge in fortune.
• The Nether Emperor promised to connect Lu Qing'an and Li Wensong with experts in the Rule of Cause and Effect, then summoned Luo Qiushan's Uncle Luo to advise them, and Luo Qiushan revealed Lu Qing'an had perfected every Rule.