Recaps

Lin Xiao and his companions reached Banxiang City, where Liu Chun passed the first stages of the Talisman Master Assembly despite an attempt to sabotage him. Meanwhile, the Lingxian Sect secured trade agreements through the imperial family and prepared to expand its influence while supporting the campaign against Huanyou Nation.

• Mo Yuanjiao brought Tong Jialiang and Han Weishu to Xiushui Village for treatment, where Sun Yigao agreed to study Tong Jialiang’s condition, and Mo Yuanjiao later settled Old Madam Mo and Madam Mo there.
• Lin Xiao rented a cave abode in Banxiang City and used the system’s new creature storage to capture Demon Beasts, while Yuan Qing encountered his sister Yuan Zhiyun and later confided his troubles to Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu watched Liu Chun compete in the Talisman Master Assembly, where someone tampered with his talismans using Execution Stone powder, but his five unaffected talismans qualified him to advance.
• Yuan Qing met Pan Han and altered his memory so the Heavenly Profound Sect survivors would not reveal unusual events in the Green Field Mystic Realm, while the Assembly began its second round.
• Liu Yunan and Qin Jianghe negotiated with Li Zhouxuan and Chancellor Meng to supply cultivation goods through the imperial family, then presented their offer to representatives of the three great sects.
• Li Zhouxuan offered the sects a free method for producing Calming Qi Talismans in exchange for regular supply, and Elder Lü claimed the order for the Clear River Sect.
• Qin Jianghe explained that Brother Xiao wanted the mortal world to develop rather than be exploited, and he and Liu Yunan bought a capital shop to serve as a discreet trading base.
• Liu Yunan confirmed the Lingxian Sect could meet the court’s additional requirements for a one-third deposit, and Qin Jianghe secured Li Zhouxuan’s promise to connect the sect with neighboring kingdoms while keeping the Pusi Kingdom stable.

Lin Xiao traveled with Jiang Youfu and Liu Chun through the Talisman Master Assembly and Yuanling City, where he helped Yuan Qing’s family suppress the patriarch’s heart demon. The arc ended with Liu Chun revealing that his sister Liu Qin had been crippled by a Heavenly Profound Sect elder, and Lin Xiao offering to seek help for her.

• Liu Yunan returned to Xiushui Village and learned that Tong Jialiang’s condition was worsening despite Sun Yigao’s treatment.
• Liu Chun placed among the Talisman Master Assembly’s top five hundred, then finished thirty-ninth in the final assessment while He Yi took first place.
• Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu left Banxiang City with Liu Chun and Yuan Qing, and Lin Xiao learned that the Wu Household had been destroyed.
• Yuan Qing brought Lin Xiao to the Yuan Household patriarch, whose severe heart demon Lin Xiao began treating with the Heart Purification Technique while Jiang Youfu read aloud.
• Lin Xiao weakened the heart demon enough for the patriarch to suppress it, then returned for another overnight treatment that helped the patriarch recover further.
• Liu Chun left to meet Elder Zhang, and later told Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu that his younger sister Liu Qin had been brought out of the Heavenly Profound Sect after an elder destroyed her Spirit Root.
• Lin Xiao offered to ask the Yuan Household for help treating Liu Qin or return to the sect with Liu Chun to seek assistance.

Lin Xiao arranged care for Liu Qin and a business partnership with the Yuan Household, then brought Yuan Qing back to the Lingxian Sect. He developed the Yaoguang Floating Island, organized the sect, expanded its school, and learned that war would begin the following month.

• Lin Xiao arranged for Liu Qin to receive treatment in the Yuan Household’s Jade Wave Hot Spring and left Liu Chun there to make talismans.
• Lin Xiao and Yuan Bi agreed to a business partnership, while Myriad Connections reassigned its search for Execution Stone Powder and Liang Zhonghuai prepared to take Auntie Yang to find her daughter.
• Lin Xiao brought Yuan Qing to Xiushui Village, where Yuan Qing passed the Heart-Questioning Road and chose to become Lin Xiao’s disciple.
• Lin Xiao synthesized the Yaoguang Floating Island, connected it to a small world, and invited the Lingxian Sect members to explore their new home in the sky.
• Lin Xiao added a Spirit-Rich Mountain, a Scripture Pavilion, and a Beast Garden to the island, while organizing sect departments, contribution tracking, and access tokens.
• Yuan Qing joined the Lingxian Sect, and Sun Yigao bonded with the Icefield Spirit after Lin Xiao gave it to him through Liao Pantu.
• Sun Yigao recruited Teacher Pei and Wen Yuejun as teachers, and the sect expanded the school with new facilities.
• Qin Jianghe brought the court’s request for cultivator travel permits and reported that war with Huanyou Nation was expected to begin in the latter part of the following month.

Lin Xiao investigated a mysterious illness in Huanyou Nation and uncovered the State Preceptor’s use of Execution Stone to transform cultivators and sacrifice captives. He rescued the prisoners, returned the national seal to Zhao Yunzhong, and left the Alliance Army alerted to the village’s illness.

• Lin Xiao organized the Lingxian Sect’s departments, appointed Xiaoluan to manage the Beast Garden, and set rules for taking disciples as the sect expanded.
• After Qin Jianghe reported a possible plague in Huanyou Nation, Lin Xiao and Fang Tuantuan traveled there to investigate and found illness linked to ghostly Evil Qi in Euphrates Poplar Village.
• Lin Xiao evacuated the village’s sick residents and went to the Execution Stone mine, where he encountered Zhao Yunzhong and Yuan Jinsheng searching for Yuan Jinsheng’s son, Yingzi.
• Lin Xiao recovered Huanyou Nation’s national seal after the former ruler died, then formed a supreme-grade Dao Core and gained Origin Qi.
• With Jiang Sisi’s azure jade lotus protecting them, Alliance Army cultivators entered the mine, where the State Preceptor began a sacrificial ritual involving ten women, Yuan Jinsheng, and the former ruler’s soul.
• Lin Xiao broke the State Preceptor’s attack, destroyed the formation, and helped free Yuan Jinsheng and the surviving women before arranging for their return home.
• Lin Xiao told the Alliance Army leaders that the village’s illness might be connected to Execution Stone, then returned Huanyou Nation’s national seal to Zhao Yunzhong.
• Zhao Yunzhong explained that the seal was stored in his heart and could protect him, while Lin Xiao realized that Zhao had revealed dangerous secrets about the imperial seal.