Recaps

Yu Zhi, Zhang Qiling, and Hei Xiazi dealt with a corpse fiend and encountered Wu Sansheng’s group on the way to the Tomb of the King of Lu. After reaching an inn, the two groups prepared to continue separately, while Wu Sansheng remained wary of the mysterious trio.

• Yu Zhi used the Soul-Locking Curse to subdue the corpse fiend, and Hei Xiazi devoured it while Wu Sansheng’s group watched.
• Xie Lianhuan thanked Yu Zhi and introduced Wu Sansheng, Qi Yu, Huo Ling, and Chen Wenjin as they left the passage together.
• Yu Zhi told Xie Lianhuan that his family had sent him from Penglai to find the Tomb of the King of Lu and deal with its blood corpse.
• Yu Zhi refused to travel with Wu Sansheng’s group, but accepted a room at their inn as repayment for saving one of their people.
• Wu Sansheng and Qi Yu admitted they could not read the three newcomers, and Wu Sansheng urged his group to rest before continuing toward the tomb.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling rested after Wu Sansheng’s group left, then set out with Hei Xiazi by a shortcut to find the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress. At the cliff above the tree, Yu Zhi identified clues that it had been deliberately contained, while Hei Xiazi teased Zhang Qiling about the book.

• Yu Zhi reassured Zhang Qiling that he had been thinking about Qi Yu rather than admiring him, then kissed Zhang Qiling to settle his jealousy.
• After Wu Sansheng’s group departed, Zhang Qiling punched the awake Hei Xiazi for gossiping, and Yu Zhi decided the three would leave that afternoon after resting.
• Yu Zhi made Hei Xiazi cultivate instead of going back to sleep, and Hei Xiazi reflected that he had only reached the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• The three traveled by Zhang Qiling’s shortcut and reached a cliff overlooking the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress, where Yu Zhi sensed concentrated wood-element energy.
• Yu Zhi concluded that the ancient, corpse-tainted tree might have been deliberately raised as a tomb guardian and contained with Heavenly Heart Stone.
• Hei Xiazi teased Zhang Qiling about kneeling to an ancestor to save Wu Xie, and Zhang Qiling denied that the incident had happened to him.

Yu Zhi, Zhang Qiling, and Hei Xiazi cleared the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress and swept the tomb for its treasures. After Yu Zhi grew jealous over Zhang Qiling’s actions in the book, Zhang Qiling reassured him of his love, and the three prepared to leave.

• Yu Zhi and his companions watched Chen Wenjin, Qi Yu, Huo Ling, Xie Lianhuan, and Wu Sansheng escape the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress, then planned to destroy and refine it.
• Zhang Qiling attacked the cypress with ice and fire, Yu Zhi subdued it, and Hei Xiazi devoured its vicious ghosts until Zhang Qiling stopped him.
• The three descended into the tomb, cleared the corpses and coffins, and collected treasures while Hei Xiazi absorbed another vicious ghost.
• Yu Zhi absorbed the blood corpse and its coffin with the cypress’s vines after Hei Xiazi teased him about Zhang Qiling kneeling to it for Wu Xie.
• Zhang Qiling comforted the jealous Yu Zhi, promised that he loved only him, and kissed him before the three agreed to leave the tomb.

In July 1977, Zhang Qiling’s urge to guard the Bronze Door grew unbearable, so Yu Zhi and Hei Xiazi accompanied him to Changbai Mountain. They reached the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace, where Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi pressed on toward the door while Hei Xiazi stayed behind; Wu Sansheng’s group followed and suffered losses to the traps.

• Yu Zhi agreed to go with Zhang Qiling to Changbai Mountain despite Zhang Qiling’s fear of losing him, and Hei Xiazi joined them.
• The three reached the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace, followed the route through the tomb, and stopped at the Kunlun Fetus, where Zhang Qiling told Yu Zhi and Hei Xiazi to wait.
• Zhang Qiling agreed to let Hei Xiazi accompany them partway, then he and Yu Zhi continued ahead while Hei Xiazi stayed behind to wait for a month.
• Wu Sansheng, Xie Lianhuan, Chen Wenjin, Qi Yu, and Huo Ling arrived seeking a way to save Fo Ye, and Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi hurried on without them.
• Wu Sansheng’s group crossed a trapped passage using Qi Yu’s directions, but three people stumbled and were killed by arrows.

Wu Sansheng's group reached a chasm with no visible way across and searched for a mechanism, while Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi crossed ahead by leaping over it. Their teasing turned into an intense kiss, and Yu Zhi stopped Zhang Qiling from discussing marriage in the dangerous tomb.

• Pangzi reported that the passage ended at a three-hundred-meter chasm, and Wu Sansheng ordered everyone to search for a mechanism.
• Qi Yu said the group had only one route forward, while his thoughts revealed that he had entered the tomb to seek a chance to survive his foretold calamity.
• Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi leaped across the chasm, and Yu Zhi joked about the deaths of the people behind them.
• Zhang Qiling refused to go back and save the others, then accused Yu Zhi of thinking about other men and no longer being attracted to him.
• Yu Zhi kissed Zhang Qiling fervently and got a nosebleed, turning Zhang Qiling's intended punishment into a reward.
• Zhang Qiling began to bring up marriage, but Yu Zhi covered his mouth and insisted they not discuss it in the tomb.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling hid in the Spirit Palace Great Hall while the Nine Gates group searched for a way onward. After learning Zhang Qishan was seeking a supposed Longevity Pill, Yu Zhi considered whether to help them, then took Zhang Qiling into the System Space to rest.

• Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling that he had joined the crowds who went to Changbai Mountain for him, and Zhang Qiling thanked him and kissed his hand.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling agreed to let the Nine Gates group go ahead, then hid in a blind spot above the great hall.
• Wu Sansheng's group crossed the dangerous cliff using the iron chains, and Huo Ling explained the route ahead toward the mausoleum's inner hall.
• Yu Zhi realized Zhang Qishan wanted a supposed Longevity Pill and considered helping the group obtain it.
• The Nine Gates group searched the empty Spirit Palace Great Hall for more than half an hour without finding a mechanism, so Yu Zhi took Zhang Qiling into the System Space to rest.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling discussed helping Wu Sansheng’s group find the Corpse Bug Pill and uncovered the Ghost Seal while talking about Zhang Qiling’s duty at the Bronze Door. They followed the group into the underground palace after it opened a passage beneath a relief of King Wannu.

• Yu Zhi proposed helping the group obtain the Corpse Bug Pill so Zhang Qishan would become a Forbidden Woman, and Zhang Qiling agreed.
• Zhang Qiling retrieved the Ghost Seal from a pile of objects taken from the Tomb of the King of Lu and explained that the person entering the Bronze Door mattered more than the key.
• Zhang Qiling told Yu Zhi that the Zhang Family’s mission was to stop “it” from killing the family and bringing the Ultimate into the human world, and Yu Zhi promised to stay with him.
• Wu Sansheng’s group discovered a relief of King Wannu, and Chen Wenjin pressed its mechanism, opening a passage that Xie Lianhuan fell into.
• After the group entered the underground palace, Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling followed, and Zhang Qiling explained that the place received sacrifices rather than eating people.

The Nine Gates reached the Corpse Storage Pavilion and lost several hired hands to a concentrated-acid trap. Meanwhile, Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling waited in their space, and Yu Zhi abandoned a plan to use someone from the Nine Gates at the Bronze Door.

• Huo Ling guided Wu Sansheng, Xie Lianhuan, Qi Yu, and Chen Wenjin toward the Corpse Storage Pavilion using the mysterious map.
• Qi Yu rushed onto the stone platform when a mechanism activated, and concentrated acid killed several hired hands who remained below.
• Wu Sansheng calmed the survivors while the five members of the group began searching the bronze chariot for clues to opening the door.
• Zhang Qiling told Yu Zhi that concentrated acid lay ahead, and they decided to wait until most of the others had died before proceeding.
• Yu Zhi suggested throwing someone from the Nine Gates into the Bronze Door, but Zhang Qiling refused because they could not deliberately harm mortals.

Wu Sansheng’s group opened the Bronze Door and entered the Corpse Storage Pavilion, where their attempt to loot coffins unleashed giant centipedes. Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling arrived, saved the survivors for a price, and learned they were searching for the Longevity Pill; the group prepared to continue toward the inner hall.

• Chen Wenjin spotted a seam in one bronze horse’s mouth, and Pangzi activated it to reveal an entrance above the Bronze Door.
• Wu Sansheng led the group into the Corpse Storage Pavilion, where the remaining men opened a coffin and released swarms of giant centipedes.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling opened the entrance from outside, then Yu Zhi offered to save the trapped group for five million per life.
• Yu Zhi used blood-red vines to crush the centipedes and consume the coffins, leaving Wu Sansheng, Xie Lianhuan, Qi Yu, Huo Ling, Chen Wenjin, and Pangzi alive.
• Xie Lianhuan told Yu Zhi that the group was seeking the Longevity Pill for Fo Ye and expected to find it in the inner hall.
• Yu Zhi said he was not interested in the pill and urged the injured survivors to rest before they continued inward.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling led the group through a dangerous passage into King Wannu’s volcanic crater palace, where they crossed a moat of mercury and acid and reunited with the others. As Xie Lianhuan asked about their relationship, he realized his question might have angered Zhang Qiling.

• Zhang Qiling warned the group about the magma-triggered passage, then led Yu Zhi through it while the others followed safely behind.
• The six from the Nine Gates escaped the closing stone door and emerged into a hot forest inside the volcanic crater, where they spotted the palace complex.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling crossed the moat, which Zhang Qiling identified as a channel filled with mercury and concentrated acid, and discussed the inner hall and Bronze Door.
• The six caught up and saw Zhang Qiling kiss Yu Zhi’s forehead before jumping across the moat to join them.
• As the group headed toward the city wall, Xie Lianhuan asked Yu Zhi what his relationship with Zhang Qiling was and worried he had asked a dangerous question.

Yu Zhi publicly declared Zhang Qiling his fiancé as they entered the underground palace to find the Longevity Pill. King Wannu attacked, Qi Yu died shielding Yu Zhi, and Yu Zhi stored Qi Yu’s soul while Zhang Qiling drove the monster away; the survivors fled with the pill and Qi Yu’s body.

• Yu Zhi declared Zhang Qiling his fiancé, and Zhang Qiling happily accepted his place at Yu Zhi’s side.
• Zhang Qiling opened the underground palace entrance with the Ghost Seal, and the group searched the hall for the Longevity Pill.
• Wu Sansheng found an eight-treasure box in a cauldron, and Zhang Qiling opened it with his Faqiu Finger.
• King Wannu attacked Yu Zhi, and Qi Yu stepped in front of him and was decapitated.
• Yu Zhi stored Qi Yu’s soul in the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress while Zhang Qiling wounded King Wannu and forced it to flee.
• Wu Sansheng and the others carried Qi Yu’s body and head out of the hall with the pill.

Yu Zhi destroyed the monsters threatening them, and Zhang Qiling, terrified of losing him, asked to bind their souls with a new contract. After they formed it, they reached the Bronze Door and entered with the yin soldiers, leaving their next steps beyond the door unknown.

• Yu Zhi released the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress and wiped out the monsters emerging from the six passages.
• Zhang Qiling clung to Yu Zhi and cried, then asked to bind their souls together so they could never truly die apart.
• Yu Zhi found the Primordial Spirit Imprint Dao Companion Contract, and he and Zhang Qiling exchanged wisps of their souls to form it.
• Yu Zhi refused to wait outside the Bronze Door, and Zhang Qiling chose the yin soldiers' passage while teasingly admitting he wanted to impress him.
• Zhang Qiling gave Yu Zhi the Ghost Seal for protection, and they joined the yin soldiers' procession through the crack in the Bronze Door before it closed behind them.

Wu Sansheng and the survivors returned with the Longevity Pill and Qi Yu’s remains, and the pill restored Zhang Qishan’s appearance and breathing. Inside the Bronze Door, Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling discovered that the Ultimate was an underground hell filled with monsters, just as creatures began emerging from the mist.

• Wu Sansheng brought the surviving Nine Gates members back with Qi Yu’s corpse and the Longevity Pill, while Hei Xiazi chose to remain in the tomb and cultivate.
• Xie Lianhuan broke down as he reported Qi Yu’s death to Er Yuehong, who arranged Qi Yu’s funeral and sent Wu Sansheng to deliver the pill to Fo Ye.
• Zhang Rishan opened the pill’s box and fed it to Zhang Qishan; the pill restored Zhang Qishan’s breathing and turned his gray hair black, though he remained unresponsive.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling entered the space beyond the Bronze Door and found a deep, filthy river crossed by a bridge disappearing into mist.
• Zhang Qiling told Yu Zhi that the Ultimate was an imitation of hell, where monsters produced inside the Queen Mother of the West had to be killed or they would die there.
• As monsters began emerging from the mist, Zhang Qiling told Yu Zhi to deal with them first.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling entered hell to clear its monster-filled levels, and Zhang Qiling explained the False Queen Mother of the West’s origin and the Zhang Family’s role in sealing her. After Yu Zhi’s devouring nearly overwhelmed him, they adapted their strategy and cleared the first level before resting together in their space.

• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling crossed the Bridge of Helplessness, killed monsters, and discovered that doing so granted merit.
• Zhang Qiling explained that the Ji Clan had created the False Queen Mother of the West, who stole heavenly authority before the Zhang Family and other cultivators sealed her behind the Bronze Door.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling agreed to clear the first seventeen levels, while Zhang Qiling clarified that Nine Gates members were meant to be sacrificed to maintain the seal.
• Yu Zhi’s devouring of the monsters’ resentment and baleful energy began affecting his mind, so Zhang Qiling led him out of the fog and took over the killing.
• Yu Zhi found he could safely devour monsters Zhang Qiling had killed, and together they cleared the first level before entering their space to rest.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling discussed their work ahead and kissed as they rested.

After Zhang Qishan woke from his long coma with the Longevity Pill, he prepared a banquet for the Nine Gates while rumors spread through Changsha. Inside the Bronze Door, Yu Zhi reached foundation establishment and joined Zhang Qiling in clearing the third level.

• Zhang Qishan woke after twenty days unconscious, learned the Wang Family had attacked two branch halls, and ordered Zhang Rishan to prepare a Nine Gates banquet and gifts for the youngsters who brought the pill.
• Zhang Qishan learned Qi Yu had died and ordered Zhang Rishan to arrange a proper funeral rite.
• Shop hands in Changsha traded rumors about Zhang Qishan's recovery and the growing influence of the Wang Family.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling finished clearing the second level of the Bronze Door, and Yu Zhi began cultivating on the surface while Zhang Qiling guarded him.
• Yu Zhi smoothly broke through to foundation establishment and told Zhang Qiling he would handle the monsters from then on.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling entered the third level, where Yu Zhi's new power and the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress rapidly destroyed the monsters.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling cleared the seventeenth level of hell and prepared to leave, while Zhang Qishan celebrated his recovery with the Nine Gates. Yu Zhi noticed a golden thread in a Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress vine and chose to hurry home rather than explore further.

• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling continued clearing hell, collecting merit and planning to finish quickly so they could leave and watch Zhang Qishan’s transformation.
• Zhang Qishan hosted a banquet celebrating his recovery and thanked the families who had helped him, while remembering Qi Yu at a memorial service.
• Madam Wu went into labor during the banquet, and Wu Yiqiong rushed her to the hospital as the guests followed.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling swept through the seventeenth level and found a tiny golden thread inside a Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress vine.
• Yu Zhi slapped himself for considering the next level, then urged Zhang Qiling to take him home.

Yu Zhi agreed to the False Queen Mother of the West’s plan to reincarnate as Wu Xie, but resisted as she drew out his soul, triggering the Heavenly Dao’s attack. Zhang Qiling carried Yu Zhi’s body out through the Bronze Door, while Yu Zhi was born as Wu Xie.

• Zhang Qiling realized a fake had replaced him, and Yu Zhi destroyed the imitation with the Azure Nether Creation Art.
• The False Queen Mother of the West appeared, captured Zhang Qiling, and demanded that Yu Zhi reincarnate as Wu Xie to help her escape and seize control of the world.
• Yu Zhi pretended to accept the plan, and the False Queen Mother of the West drew his soul from his body and sent it into a womb.
• The Heavenly Dao’s golden merit injured the False Queen Mother of the West, who cut off her arm before sending Yu Zhi’s soul away and declaring that he had reincarnated as Wu Xie.
• After the False Queen Mother of the West vanished, Zhang Qiling found Yu Zhi dead, resolved to protect him in his new life, and carried his body out through the Bronze Door.
• Mrs. Wu gave birth to a healthy boy, and Wu Yiqiong named him Wu Xie.

Zhang Qiling carried Yu Zhi’s apparently lifeless body out of the tomb, believing his lover had died and losing most of his memories. Yu Zhi revealed that his soul was hiding in Zhang Qiling’s sea of consciousness, and they agreed to keep this secret from Hei Xiazi while they investigated the Queen Mother of the West’s plans.

• Zhang Qiling left the tomb carrying Yu Zhi’s body, and Hei Xiazi followed after discovering that Zhang Qiling had lost his memories and believed Yu Zhi was dead.
• Zhang Qiling knelt in the snow, where Yu Zhi called to him from inside his sea of consciousness and explained that he was alive but had been injured.
• Yu Zhi showed Zhang Qiling his memories, revealing that Qi Yu’s soul had reincarnated as Wu Xie and had been drawn into Zhang Qiling’s body during the events in the tomb.
• Zhang Qiling recovered his memories and learned that Yu Zhi had hidden himself in his sea of consciousness to avoid detection by the Queen Mother of the West.
• Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling to conceal his survival from Hei Xiazi and help turn the Queen Mother of the West’s scheme against her, and Zhang Qiling agreed.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling preserved Yu Zhi’s body in the Jade Cocoon and returned home while planning how to investigate the Wu Family. Zhang Qiling remained shaken and refused to leave Yu Zhi’s side, until Hei Xiazi persuaded him to come out and eat.

• Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling to place his body in the Jade Cocoon, and Zhang Qiling cleaned it and preserved it after learning that their spaces had merged with the Qilin Ring.
• Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi planned to have Hei Xiazi gather information about the Wu Family while Zhang Qiling pretended to have lost his memory.
• Yu Zhi explained that his soul was weakened and asked Zhang Qiling to absorb spiritual energy to nourish him and the Jade Cocoon.
• Zhang Qiling carried Yu Zhi home and stayed in his room with the Jade Cocoon until the following day, while Hei Xiazi waited outside.
• Hei Xiazi brought food and entered the unlocked room, then persuaded Zhang Qiling to come out by reminding him that he needed strength to carry Yu Zhi.

Yu Zhi remained unable to return to his body while Zhang Qiling protected him and hid the truth from Hei Xiazi. Meanwhile, Zhang Qishan’s condition worsened after the Longevity Pill proved fake, and the Nine Gates and an unknown figure began searching for Zhang Qiling.

• Zhang Qiling told Hei Xiazi that he had lost his memory and that Yu Zhi was asleep, while Hei Xiazi left to investigate the Nine Gates’ recent expedition.
• Yu Zhi discovered that the System Space had gained spiritual energy and now had two masters, but he still could not return to his body.
• Wu Sansheng told Zhang Qishan and Zhang Rishan that the Longevity Pill came from the Cloud Top Heavenly Palace and that Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi had been there too.
• Zhang Qishan refused to keep working with 'it' and ordered Zhang Rishan to prepare an iron coffin to seal him before he fully mutated.
• Wu Sansheng asked Xie Lianhuan to help find Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi, while an unknown person separately ordered someone to track Zhang Qiling without alerting him.

Hei Xiazi returned with news that Zhang Qishan was showing strange changes after taking the Longevity Pill and that Wu Xie had been born prematurely. Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi kept their true situation secret while recruiting Hei Xiazi to help investigate the people following them.

• Hei Xiazi found Zhang Qiling and the Jade Cocoon at the courtyard and reported Zhang Qishan’s long hair, nails, and strange fragrance, which Yu Zhi linked to the Longevity Pill.
• Hei Xiazi said Wu Xie had been born prematurely in August, and Yu Zhi connected the timing to Qi Yu’s reincarnation.
• Zhang Qiling shouted that Yu Zhi was only asleep, then staged a quarrel with Hei Xiazi to mislead the people watching the courtyard.
• After a tail approached Hei Xiazi, he returned at night and Zhang Qiling brought him into the space with Yu Zhi and the Jade Cocoon.
• Zhang Qiling claimed the False Queen Mother of the West had taken Yu Zhi’s soul and that he had reincarnated as Wu Xie, but Hei Xiazi saw through the story and guessed they were drawing out an unknown enemy.
• Hei Xiazi agreed to help investigate the person who approached him and promised to report back after sounding him out.

Zhang Rishan brought the transforming Zhang Qishan to Zhang Qiling and begged him to save Fo Ye, but Zhang Qiling refused and burned half of Zhang Qishan’s transformed body. After Zhang Rishan fled with him, Zhang Qiling and Yu Zhi discussed their bond, while Hei Xiazi warned that the Nine Gates and Wang Family were seeking information about them.

• Zhang Rishan tried to slow Zhang Qishan’s transformation by forcing him to drink his own Qilin Blood as they raced toward Beijing.
• Zhang Rishan arrived at Zhang Qiling’s courtyard carrying Zhang Qishan and offered his wealth, power, and life in exchange for a cure.
• Zhang Qiling showed Zhang Rishan the dead Yu Zhi in a Jade Burial Suit and said he could save Zhang Qishan but would not allow another person like himself to remain.
• Zhang Qishan completed his transformation into a Forbidden Woman and pierced Zhang Rishan’s shoulder, so Zhang Qiling set him ablaze and ordered the group to leave with the half that remained.
• Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling he resented the suffering Zhang Qiling had endured, and Zhang Qiling reassured him that their life together would be better.
• Hei Xiazi reported that the Nine Gates and Wang Family were gathering information about Zhang Qiling and searching for Yu Zhi, then left the courtyard.

Yu Zhi agreed to make his relationship with Zhang Qiling official after learning that Zhang Qiling feared he would disappear without a trace. He granted Zhang Qiling access to the system so they could find each other, and they planned to marry now and hold a grand ceremony later when Yu Zhi returned to his body.

• Zhang Qiling insisted on marrying Yu Zhi immediately, while Yu Zhi worried that marrying his immobile body would invite ridicule.
• Zhang Qiling confessed that he feared Yu Zhi might vanish and that no one would know they had been lovers.
• Yu Zhi promised to stay with Zhang Qiling and explained their soul-imprint contract, then granted Zhang Qiling companion access to the system.
• Zhang Qiling saw the system link their souls and asked Yu Zhi to marry him without consummating the marriage with his body.
• Yu Zhi agreed to make it official now and hold a grand ceremony after he returned to his own body.

Zhang Qiling told Hei Xiazi he intended to marry Yu Zhi’s body, alarming Hei Xiazi, who rushed over and demanded he stop. Zhang Qiling insisted on the wedding, and they began planning a ceremony for three days later while Yu Zhi watched from within Zhang Qiling’s sea of consciousness.

• Zhang Qiling sent Hei Xiazi a message saying he would marry Yu Zhi and asked him to arrange the ceremony and notify their acquaintances.
• Hei Xiazi rushed to Zhang Qiling’s home, misunderstood his intentions, and punched him while demanding he leave Yu Zhi’s body alone.
• Zhang Qiling insisted that Hei Xiazi arrange the wedding, promising not to touch Yu Zhi’s body, and set the date for three days later.
• Hei Xiazi reluctantly agreed to handle the arrangements, then left after warning Zhang Qiling again not to harm Yu Zhi’s body.
• Yu Zhi laughed at Hei Xiazi’s reaction and discussed the ceremony with Zhang Qiling, who planned a Western-style wedding with Hei Xiazi officiating and Yu Zhi dressed in a jade burial suit with his face covered.

Hei Xiazi delivered wedding invitations, and Zhang Qiling married Yu Zhi, whose consciousness answered from within a jade figurine. The Nine Gates and Wang Family watched Zhang Qiling’s strange devotion, while Wu Sansheng began forming a plan and the Wang Family patriarch ordered continued surveillance.

• Hei Xiazi delivered invitations to the surviving older members of the Nine Gates and warned Zhang Rishan not to anger Zhang Qiling.
• The Nine Gates gathered at Zhang Qiling’s courtyard for the wedding, hoping to assess him as their losses against the Wang Family mounted.
• Zhang Qiling carried Yu Zhi’s body beneath a flower arch, and both grooms declared they were willing to marry each other.
• Hei Xiazi sent the guests away after the ceremony, and Wu Sansheng began shaping a risky plan.
• A Wang Family spy reported the wedding to the Wang Family patriarch, who ordered him to watch Zhang Qiling and cautiously approach Hei Xiazi.
• The Wang Family patriarch ordered his people to keep guiding Wu Sansheng and wondered why Zhang Qiling’s actions differed from what a sacrifice had revealed.