Arc 22The Osmanthus City Gambit
Li Yang uncovered the Upper Three Realms’ plans, rescued Shen Ze, and helped Chen Ri seize the Authority of Wood by defeating the Divine Venerable of Wood. After finding evidence that Lianxin had come through an Astral Realm Rift, she set out with the Flower of Evil to search for him.
- The old pavilion master revealed that the Upper Three Realms planned to use the Authorities of God to create a new world, and Li Yang chose to continue the successors’ mission and pursue Ninth Grade.
- Li Yang infiltrated Osmanthus City with Cheng Rui and Shen Binghua, learned that Shennü used Heavenly Sight to monitor the city, and rescued Shen Ze after discovering his memories had been repeatedly sealed.
- Li Yang learned that the Blood God Clan’s Divine Blood came from the Lotus Domain and persuaded Shennü to help her deceive the Divine Venerable of Wood.
- Li Yang and her allies destroyed five of the Divine Venerable of Wood’s vessels, then used Star Weapons to weaken him as Chen Ri seized the Authority of Wood and transformed into an emerald sword-woman.
- Li Yang used Time Rewind to witness the Flower of Evil’s memories, including Tian Ting’s attempt to free him and the events that transformed Tian Ting into the Divine Venerable of Evil.
- Shennü found a Blood God Clan journal revealing that the Fenglie Clan had taken Lianxin from a Spatial Rift at the cost of half the God King of Space’s authority.
- Li Yang decided to enter the Astral Realm’s void to search for Lianxin, and Si Kui helped her obtain a Single-Leaf Skiff and reach an Eighth Grade breakthrough before she departed with the Flower of Evil.