Recaps

Lin Yu and Uncle Nine defeated the emperor corpse by tearing the old man's soul from it, then Uncle Nine absorbed its thousand years of Yin Fiend Qi. As they prepared to return to Maoshan, a black array activated at the old man's burial place and his laughter revealed that he had somehow survived.

• Lin Yu used the Kunpeng phantom and golden chains to pull the old man's soul from the emperor corpse, then swallowed and destroyed it.
• Uncle Nine restrained the soulless emperor corpse while Lin Yu bound its arm, allowing Uncle Nine to drain its Yin Fiend Qi until it shriveled.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine dug Four Eyes out of the rubble, and Uncle Nine told him to report the damaged array to Maoshan.
• A black array pattern lit up where the old man's corpse had lain, and the old man's voice declared that he had not been killed.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Four Eyes discovered that the Three Miao Tribe had linked imperial tombs across the mortal world in an Indestructible Samsara Formation that could bring about its destruction. They began mobilizing the cultivation sects to find a way to stop it, while Lin Yu and Uncle Nine returned to the mortuary and woke Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng.

• The old man revealed that imperial tombs served as formation points for the Indestructible Samsara Formation, then escaped through the markings and threatened that the imperial corpses would emerge.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine realized the formation covered the mortal world and could not be broken by destroying its points one at a time.
• Uncle Nine decided to contact Maoshan's patriarchs and the major sects, and Four Eyes left with a communication talisman to deliver the warning.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine returned to the mortuary, where Lin Yu read the emperor's silk manuscript but found no useful information.
• Lin Yu woke Qiu Sheng and pinched Wen Cai awake while they slept at the mortuary.

Uncle Nine told Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng that the Indestructible Samsara Formation threatened to destroy the mortal world, and they chose to stay and help stop it. After Four Eyes brought word of a gathering at Maoshan, Uncle Nine returned to the sect for the first time in years and was confronted by memories of Shi Jian.

• Uncle Nine explained that the Three Miao Tribe planned to use imperial corpses and the Indestructible Samsara Formation to destroy the world, then let Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng choose whether to stay or leave.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng chose to remain and help, and Uncle Nine sent them to search Maoshan records for information about the formation.
• Four Eyes arrived and reported that Maoshan's sect leader had summoned Mount Lao, Dragon Tiger Mountain, and the Quanzhen Sect to meet at Maoshan in three days.
• Uncle Nine prepared to return to Maoshan with Lin Yu, Four Eyes, Wen Cai, and Qiu Sheng, uncertain how the elders would receive him.
• At Maoshan's Hall of Worship, Uncle Nine stopped when he saw Shi Jian's name carved on a plaque.

Uncle Nine and Four Eyes honored Shi Jian, then joined Lin Yu at Maoshan to discuss the Indestructible Samsara Formation with the three Heavenly Masters. The Heavenly Masters kept Lin Yu behind and revealed that ordained Heavenly Masters could not truly ascend because the passage between Heaven and the mortal world had closed.

• Four Eyes comforted Uncle Nine about Shi Jian, and Uncle Nine offered incense at Shi Jian's memorial tablet.
• A Maoshan disciple escorted Uncle Nine and Lin Yu to the Heavenly Master Hall, where the three Heavenly Masters noticed Lin Yu's unusual cultivation.
• Uncle Nine presented ancient records about the Indestructible Samsara Formation and explained what had happened; the Heavenly Masters scheduled a discussion with other sects in three days.
• The middle Heavenly Master asked Lin Yu to stay behind for a private conversation while Uncle Nine went to the guest room.
• The three Heavenly Masters questioned Lin Yu about his cultivation and his divine ability spell, then explained that the Heavenly Court passage had closed and that breaking through would leave them trapped as caged Immortals.

The three Heavenly Masters explained the five ranks of immortals to Lin Yu and revealed that his cultivation had already brought him close to becoming a Divine Immortal. They encouraged him to pursue the Heavenly Immortal realm while prioritizing the mortal world's safety, then gave him access to Maoshan's halls and texts.

• The middle Heavenly Master described Ghost, Human, Earth, Divine, and Heavenly Immortals and explained the requirements and limits of each rank.
• Lin Yu realized his perfected Primordial Spirit had met the conditions for a Divine Immortal and feared that, with the path to heaven severed, he could have become stranded as a Ghost Immortal.
• The left Heavenly Master said the three Heavenly Masters had reached the Divine Immortal threshold but could not receive Heavenly Court posts, and urged Lin Yu to pursue the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Lin Yu promised to focus on protecting the mortal world before considering immortality, and the three Heavenly Masters praised his priorities.
• The middle Heavenly Master gave Lin Yu a token granting access to Maoshan's halls and texts, and Uncle Nine reacted with surprise when he saw it.

Lin Yu trained at Maoshan while the sects planned how to break the Indestructible Samsara Formation within two years. After the meeting, Lin Yu decided to spend that time traveling to gain experience.

• The three Heavenly Masters discussed Lin Yu's cultivation and concluded that he was not on a wicked path.
• Uncle Nine sent Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng to train with Maoshan disciples while Lin Yu studied in the Scripture Repository and sparred with Grandmaster Zhang.
• After a week, leaders from the major sects met and agreed to locate the imperial tombs, prepare disciples and artifacts, and coordinate a simultaneous attack in two years.
• The Maoshan Heavenly Masters planned to use the two-year deadline to advance their cultivation.
• On the way back to the mortuary, Lin Yu told Uncle Nine he wanted to go out and gain experience, while Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng tried to dissuade him.

Lin Yu left Uncle Nine and spent a month traveling through the mountains, where he encountered a spirit deer guarding a blood lingzhi. When herb gatherers tried to drive the deer away, a spirit tiger appeared and challenged them, and Lin Yu stepped forward to prevent anyone from being hurt.

• Lin Yu set out to see the human world, and Uncle Nine gave him protective talismans and weapons before he departed.
• Over the next month, Lin Yu traveled through the mountains, eliminating creatures that had harmed people and guiding harmless spirits to stay away from mortals.
• Lin Yu joined Li Laosan and a group of herb gatherers, who discovered a blood lingzhi growing on a cliff.
• A spirit sika deer blocked the gatherers from taking the lingzhi, and an arrow bounced off its mud armor.
• The deer called out, and a spirit tiger emerged, asked why the group was trying to steal its lingzhi, and frightened the gatherers.
• Lin Yu stepped forward to protect the group in case the tiger attacked.

Lin Yu persuaded the white-browed tiger to spare Li Laosan, then discovered that the tiger had no cultivation method and asked him for guidance. Lin Yu began teaching the tiger the basics of drawing in Qi, while the sika deer listened nearby.

• The white-browed tiger demanded that one person stay behind, and Li Laosan volunteered so the others could escape.
• Lin Yu revealed that he was a Maoshan cultivator and persuaded the tiger to let Li Laosan go in exchange for offerings at a memorial tablet.
• After Li Laosan left, the tiger knelt before Lin Yu and begged him to teach it a cultivation method.
• Lin Yu agreed to teach the tiger the basics of drawing in Qi and warned it not to harm innocent people.
• Lin Yu began explaining cultivation to the attentive tiger, while the sika deer secretly listened.

Lin Yu taught the mountain tiger and sika deer to cultivate, gave the tiger a talisman, and continued his journey. In a village plagued by a demonic black bear, he killed the beast but found that two young men had already died.

• Lin Yu taught the tiger and sika deer to sense and circulate spiritual Qi, then gave the tiger a talisman to contact him.
• The tiger escorted Lin Yu down the mountain, where villagers thanked the mountain lord for protecting them.
• Lin Yu reached a village troubled by a black bear and sensed demonic Qi in the mountains.
• Lin Yu found the black bear attacking a wounded youth beside two dead men and pinned it down with spiritual power.
• Lin Yu crushed the black bear, then checked the two young men and found he could not save them.

Lin Yu saved a mortally wounded youth and extended his life by three days, allowing him to return home and spend time with his mother and sister. On the third morning, the youth listened as his mother recalled his childhood and asked him to take care of himself.

• Lin Yu stopped the youth's bleeding and learned that the black bear had killed his father and the families of his friends Zhuzi and Ali.
• After refusing to stay and care for the youth's family, Lin Yu offered to extend the youth's life by three days, and the youth accepted.
• The youth returned home, reunited with his mother and sister, shared his food, washed his mother's feet, and gave his savings to his sister.
• Lin Yu followed unseen as the youth repaired the family's leaking roof, shielding him from the sun with a cloud.
• On the third morning, the youth sat beside his mother as she recalled his childhood and asked him to take care of himself.

Lin Yu helped a dying boy spend his final moments with his family, then arranged for the boy’s soul to be taken for reincarnation. In Suzhou, Lin Yu discovered signs of an evil cultivator and was followed by men who appeared to be abducting vagrants.

• Lin Yu protected the boy’s heart so he could hear his mother and embrace her before he died, then placed spiritual talismans on his mother and sister.
• Lin Yu summoned the Underworld bailiff and asked him to escort the boy’s soul to reincarnation; after Lin Yu released his restraint, the bailiff led the boy away.
• Lin Yu traveled to Suzhou, where he noticed people watching him and saw covered carts carrying corpses marked with traces of evil Qi.
• Lin Yu saw two Japanese men in kimonos dragging a woman and learned they belonged to the East Asia Mutual Aid Society.
• Two men followed Lin Yu into a dead-end alley and revealed that they planned to abduct him, prompting Lin Yu to realize they were targeting beggars and vagrants.

Lin Yu followed two men carrying a log to a Japanese cult’s compound and infiltrated its shrine hall and study. He discovered the cult’s blood sacrifice and a scripture written in human blood, possibly copied by the evil Daoist using his own severed finger.

• Lin Yu used Soul Capture to make two men mistake a log for him, then followed them to the East Asia Mutual Aid Society.
• Lin Yu used spiritual power to influence the Japanese guards and entered the compound behind the two men.
• The evil Daoist realized the men had been deceived, then killed them with medicinal wine that turned them into black smoke.
• The evil Daoist ordered a maid to investigate who the men had encountered, while Lin Yu used Wall Opening to pass through a wall into a study.
• Lin Yu found a scripture written in human blood beside a severed finger and suspected the evil Daoist had copied it using his own blood and finger.

Lin Yu discovered that the Fire Lotus Society used blood-soaked scriptures and imprisoned refugees for blood sacrifices, so he entered their hidden dungeon to rescue them. As he broke open the cell door, the demonic Daoist rushed underground and attacked him with a talisman bearing Samadhi True Fire.

• Lin Yu read the Fire Lotus Society's scriptures and learned about its curses, blood sacrifices, and twisted doctrine.
• The demonic Daoist struck the maid for failing to find the cultivator and threatened to make her the next sacrifice.
• Lin Yu used his Primordial Spirit to locate dozens of refugees and pregnant women held in an underground dungeon.
• Lin Yu entered the dungeon, reassured the terrified captives, and shattered the spell-reinforced lock on their door.
• The demonic Daoist sensed the broken spell mark, rushed downstairs, and hurled a Samadhi True Fire talisman at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu defeated the demonic Daoist and rescued the captured refugees, then watched as the Daoist sacrificed himself to summon the Fire Lotus Society’s evil bodhisattva. Lin Yu trapped the creature and seized the Daoist’s soul, intending to deal with him first.

• Lin Yu extinguished the demonic Daoist’s curse fire and repelled his chain attack, severing the Daoist’s remaining fingers when he redirected the attack toward the refugees.
• Lin Yu used Near Departure to teleport the refugees to a bamboo grove outside Suzhou, then beat the demonic Daoist into submission.
• The demonic Daoist sacrificed himself to summon the Fire Lotus Society’s bodhisattva, which appeared as a bloodthirsty creature with little cultivation.
• The creature tried to take the Daoist’s soul, but Lin Yu struck its hand with a golden chain and grabbed the soul himself.
• Lin Yu trapped the bodhisattva inside a golden bead and held the terrified Daoist’s soul in his palm.

Lin Yu tortured Honda Hayato for information, destroyed the Fire Lotus Society members guarding the Suzhou clubhouse, and traveled to Hangzhou to investigate another stronghold. He discovered dozens of cultists and captured civilians, most of them pregnant women, hidden beneath an abandoned temple.

• Lin Yu pinned Honda Hayato’s soul in a bronze lamp and learned that the Fire Lotus Society had three more strongholds in Hangzhou and Nanjing, while the Onmyōryō operated in the north.
• Lin Yu spared the evil entity sealed in a golden bead and left the dungeon with it and Honda’s lamp.
• Fire Lotus Society members confronted Lin Yu at the Suzhou clubhouse, but he froze them and summoned lightning that destroyed the clubhouse and its occupants.
• Lin Yu followed Honda’s information to an abandoned temple outside Hangzhou and sensed dozens of cultists and detained Dragon Nation civilians underground.

Lin Yu infiltrated a Fire Lotus Society temple and found pregnant women imprisoned while the cult used the blood and souls of unborn babies in evil rites. He destroyed the cultists, delivered the babies’ souls through a mantra, and purified the room as the women began to recover.

• Lin Yu entered the temple, incapacitated six Fire Lotus Society guards, and fed their souls to the evil god.
• Lin Yu found four chained pregnant women, the bodies of stillborn babies, and three cultists preparing bloodstained scriptures.
• Lin Yu killed one cultist with a golden blade and dispelled the evil arts of the other two.
• The remaining cultists summoned the babies’ resentful souls as evil ghosts, but Lin Yu recited the Supreme Edict Divine Rebirth Deliverance Mantra and sent the souls toward reincarnation.
• Lin Yu’s golden light destroyed the two cultists and purified the room, while the pregnant women regained their senses and one began to cry.

Lin Yu discovered that the evil entity in his golden bead had developed a strange balance of Buddhist, demonic, and Daoist forces, then used it to confront four Fire Lotus Society members in the dungeon. The entity attacked its former worshippers, while Lin Yu kept the dungeon sealed.

• Lin Yu rescued the pregnant women, then noticed the evil entity in the golden bead had changed and tested how merit affected its intertwined Buddhist, demonic, and Daoist presences.
• Lin Yu reinforced the bead's restrictions and entered the temple dungeon, where four Fire Lotus Society members attacked him with cursed fire.
• Lin Yu trapped the dungeon with the bead and showed the cultists their companion's soul in an oil lamp, revealing that he was no ally sent by their headquarters.
• Lin Yu urged the evil entity to show the cultists its true nature, and it killed the first man before turning on the others.
• The remaining Fire Lotus Society members tried to flee and repel the entity with talismans, but the barrier trapped them and their talismans drew power from the entity itself.

Lin Yu rescued prisoners in Hangzhou, confirmed the Fire Lotus Society's Nanjing stronghold had already been cleared, and traveled north to deal with evil entities and those harming the people. While exploring a forest, he met a red fox with decades of cultivation that invited him to follow it.

• The Dark Bodhisattva killed the remaining Fire Lotus Society members, and Lin Yu continued deeper into the dungeon.
• Lin Yu freed more than twenty prisoners, escorted them and the pregnant women to Hangzhou, and left paper figures to protect them.
• Lin Yu found that three Daoist cultivators had already eliminated the Fire Lotus Society's Nanjing stronghold, so he flew north.
• Lin Yu spent the following days confronting evil entities and intervening when little Japanese oppressed people, earning rumors that he was a god sent to punish evildoers.
• Lin Yu went into the northern forests to experience nature and encountered a red fox with decades of cultivation.
• The red fox repeatedly called Lin Yu to follow it, and he agreed to go with it.

Lin Yu followed a kind red spirit fox through the mountains, finding peace in the forest as he shared its wild fruit. At the mountain path, he thanked the fox with a spirit fruit and left for the village, while the fox realized he was a powerful cultivator and felt embarrassed about treating him like a lost child.

• Lin Yu connected with the red fox's thoughts and learned that it was guiding him out of the mountains because it feared he would be eaten by wild beasts.
• The fox found wild fruit for Lin Yu, and they rested and ate together in the forest.
• As the sky darkened, the fox led Lin Yu to a mountain path and urged him to hurry home.
• Lin Yu told the fox he was not a lost child, then gave it a spirit fruit in thanks for its help.
• After Lin Yu left for the village, the fox sensed the spirit fruit's powerful Qi and realized he was a cultivator, then felt ashamed of its earlier assumptions.

Lin Yu discovered that the Kujikuji Sect had built a formation to destroy the north’s earth veins and dragon veins, then sent the Dark Bodhisattva to consume the formation’s evil Qi. As the formation weakened, he watched from concealment and ordered the Dark Bodhisattva to avoid harming the innocent.

• Lin Yu left the mountain village and continued north, where he saw refugees and learned that Japanese forces had established Puppet Manchukuo.
• Near Xidu, Lin Yu used his sect’s feng shui art to observe Qi and discovered that the north’s earth veins and dragon veins had been damaged.
• Lin Yu traced the evil Qi to the Marshal’s Residence outside Fengtian City and identified the Nine Snakes Fight the Dragon Formation and the Kujikuji Sect’s involvement.
• Lin Yu sent the golden bead into the formation’s central log so the Dark Bodhisattva could absorb its evil Qi without letting it spread to nearby people.
• Kujiku Sect cultivators detected a disturbance in the log and searched for an attacker as the formation weakened, while Lin Yu ordered the Dark Bodhisattva to harm no innocents.

The Kujiku Sect cultivators were drained by the golden bead in the log and summoned an elder, who tried to stabilize the damaged formation. His attacks and the formation’s power were absorbed by the bead, leaving him unable to stop the evil entity.

• The five Kujiku Sect cultivators failed to stabilize the formation and had to sever their connections to the log, ruining their arms and losing much of their cultivation.
• The leading cultivator sent a signal for help, and Lin Yu watched as a black-robed Kujiku elder arrived.
• The elder examined the lingering Qi and blamed the Fire Lotus Society’s evil god for tainting the formation’s focal point.
• The elder tried to suppress the bead with the formation, an evil ghost statue, and several secret techniques, but the bead absorbed each attack and grew stronger.

Lin Yu stopped the Dark Bodhisattva from escaping its restraints, rejected the northern fortune dragon, then captured it before it could merge with the Young Marshal. He followed the Kujiku Sect elder’s trail to the sect’s hidden valley, where the elder reported the attack and feared the powerful figure behind it.

• The Kujiku Sect elder escaped with a Teleportation Talisman, abandoning his exhausted juniors, whom Lin Yu fed to the evil god in the orb.
• Lin Yu strengthened the orb’s merit-based seal after noticing the Dark Bodhisattva’s power had surged and begun assimilating his divine ability.
• The released golden dragon of northern fortune tried to merge with Lin Yu, but he rejected it; when it flew toward the Young Marshal, Lin Yu captured it in a new fortune orb.
• Lin Yu followed the elder’s evil Qi with his Heavenly Eye to a concealed grotto-heaven and blessed land, identifying it as the Kujiku Sect’s lair.
• The elder sent a message to the church about the attack on the Marshal’s Residence and worried that a powerful, unknown expert was controlling the evil entity.

Lin Yu captured a Kujiku Sect elder, drained his cultivation, and questioned him about the sect’s plans, but the elder died without revealing details. Lin Yu then transformed the sect’s valley into a blessed land to nurture the north’s providence.

• Lin Yu immobilized the cautious elder, crushed his Teleportation Talisman, and ordered the Dark Bodhisattva to absorb his cultivation without killing him.
• Lin Yu searched the crippled elder and asked about Kujiku Sect strongholds and its plan to destroy dragon veins, but the elder died without answering.
• Lin Yu destroyed the elder’s corpse and cleared the sect’s buildings and restrictions from the valley.
• Lin Yu placed five Great Five Emperors Coins to form the Innate Lesser Five Elements Formation, which purified the valley’s Spiritual Qi and repaired its earth veins.
• Lin Yu used his Feng Shui Precious Technique and Innate Xirang essence to reshape the valley into a springlike blessed land.

Lin Yu restored a ravaged valley into a blessed land and continued north to hunt evil cultivators before noticing that Lu Xueqi had joined the Chat Group. In the Zhu Xian World, Lu Xueqi read a detailed account of her possible future with Zhang Xiaofan and sent her first message to the group, while the others tried to warn her about him.

• Lin Yu reshaped the valley into a Spiritual Qi-rich grotto-heaven and released the Golden Dragon of Fortune to restore its fortune.
• Lin Yu resumed his search for the Little Days' evil cultivators and noticed that Lu Xueqi had joined the Chat Group.
• Su Xiaoxiao uploaded information about Zhu Xian, and Huang Rong and other members warned Lu Xueqi about Zhang Xiaofan.
• Lu Xueqi read the plot summary at the Qingyun Sect tournament and became unsettled by its account of her future relationship with Zhang Xiaofan.
• Lu Xueqi thanked the group for its warnings, and Huang Rong inferred that she had not yet fallen in love with Zhang Xiaofan.

As the Seven Peaks Martial Tournament continued, Lu Xueqi learned from the Chat Group that the demonic sects would infiltrate the Qingyun Sect and the Tome of Heaven would appear during an upcoming expedition. Lin Yu advised her to earn Master Shuiyue’s trust by revealing the Chat Group’s abilities and proving its predictions through small events before warning her about the future.

• Lin Yu learned that Lu Xueqi’s timeline was near the end of the Seven Peaks Martial Tournament and considered how he might access the first volume of the Tome of Heaven.
• Lu Xueqi told the group that Zhang Xiaofan had just finished a match, and Ning Caichen and Xiao Yan advised her to seek the Tome of Heaven during the coming training trip.
• Su Xiaoxiao explained that Zhang Xiaofan would struggle to abandon Biyao because of his kind nature and his sense of obligation.
• Xu Xian and Huang Rong warned Lu Xueqi that the Qingyun Sect’s elders might distrust her if she revealed the Chat Group and future events without proof.
• Lin Yu suggested that Lu Xueqi privately demonstrate the Chat Group’s abilities to Master Shuiyue, then verify its predictions with small events before revealing the coming dangers.
• Lu Xueqi considered the advice and thought that gaining her master’s support would make her efforts safer and more effective.