Recaps

Gu De and the others survived the Emperor Road as the Tai and Jiang clans arrived and revealed that the Land of Contemplation had been trapped in repeating cycles. Li Baimei joined the Jiang Clan, while Gu De led his followers into the wider world and discovered their stored belongings had vanished.

• Gu De led his companions through the dangerous forest, where hidden attacks sent travelers into the ground, and Chu Ping'an rescued Gu De and his followers from being buried.
• Mu Fan’s uranium experiment caused a nuclear blast on the Emperor Road, while Lu Changzhi gave him crafting knowledge to improve his inventions.
• The Tai Clan and Jiang Clan arrived at the maze, and Jiang Tong intervened when Tai Jiuling and the Jiang Clan threatened Lu Changzhi and the other travelers.
• Jiang Tong explained that the Land of Contemplation had repeatedly reset to the past, but its cycle had stopped and Emperor Source had disappeared.
• The Jiang Clan drove the Tai Clan away and revealed that the Great Qian Ancient Kingdom had fallen, leaving the travelers to choose whether to remain or seek the wider world.
• Li Baimei accepted membership in the Jiang Clan in exchange for protection and resources for the Li Clan, while Gu De was not selected.
• Gu De led his followers through the exit to explore the outside world, where they found that their storage artifacts and travel methods were missing.
• Gu De discovered that his own storage artifacts remained but their contents were gone, and he questioned an Artifact Spirit before telling his attendants to consider the loss.

Li Baimei destroyed the Great Qian Ancient Kingdom and gained Yang Kaizhi’s favor through the Jiang Clan’s recommendation, earning the clan the Huaxia Sect’s protection. Jiang Tong passed that reward to Lu Changzhi and arranged entry for him and Gu Chen into the World in the Painting, where the Tai Clan planned to target the Jiang Clan’s juniors.

• Li Baimei used the Jiang Clan token to erase the Great Qian Ancient Kingdom’s defenses and ordered the Li Clan to destroy it.
• Jiang Tong identified Lu Changzhi as an important reincarnated figure and instructed the Jiang Clan to help him.
• The Tai Clan ordered the Cao Clan to kill everyone involved in the secret realm incident.
• Jiang Tao recommended Li Baimei to Yang Kaizhi, while Gu De and Chu Ping'an also entered the selection.
• Li Baimei endured Yang Kaizhi’s two souls and won his favor, earning Jiang Tao a wooden plaque granting the Huaxia Sect’s protection.
• Jiang Tong gave Lu Changzhi the wooden token and two World in the Painting entry slots for him and Gu Chen, urging him to subdue the Scroll of the Falling Brush.
• Tai Jiuling agreed to target the Jiang Clan’s juniors in the World in the Painting and force them to use their wooden token.
• Gu De sought a way into the World in the Painting as Yang Kaizhi told Li Baimei that he could enter.

Lu Changzhi entered the World in the Painting with Gu Chen and became entangled in the Tai Clan’s pursuit and the Artifact Spirit’s search for the power of time. As Jin Wuliang tried to make A Luo obtain that power for him, Lu Changzhi drew it into Li Baimei, who faced Jin Wuliang with his newfound ability.

• Yang Kaizhi gave Li Baimei a token to enter the World in the Painting, while Lu Changzhi took Gu Chen outside and met Jiang Tong, who brought them to the Jiang Clan.
• Tai Jiuling ordered the Cao Clan to target Lu Changzhi, while Li Baimei invited Gu De and Chu Ping'an into the World in the Painting.
• Lu Changzhi, Gu Chen, and Jiang Kui entered the painted world together, where Cao Clan fighters attacked them and Tai Yin tried to kill Lu Changzhi.
• Lu Changzhi used Reverse Idling on Tai Yin, and the Scroll of the Falling Brush’s Artifact Spirit made Tai Yin regress until he vanished.
• Lu Changzhi accused the Tai Clan of stealing and used the Huaxia Sect’s plaque to deter them, before the Artifact Spirit isolated him with four Tai Clan members.
• The Artifact Spirit discovered the power of time within a Tai Clan member, who vanished after she struck him, and she summoned the Venerable One, Jin Wuliang.
• Jin Wuliang tried to seize the power of time and ordered A Luo to kill everyone, but Lu Changzhi entered Li Baimei’s body and presented A Luo with a melon concealing the broken brush shaft.
• Lu Changzhi showed A Luo that Jin Wuliang had defeated A Diao and made him part of the broken brush, then drew the power of time into Li Baimei, who demonstrated his control over it to Jin Wuliang.

Lu Changzhi and Li Baimei trapped Jin Wuliang in the World in the Painting, defeated him, and freed A Luo. The Huaxia Sect and Jiang Clan then maneuvered around the Power of Time, while Lu Changzhi pursued the Source of Heaven and Earth and drew Mu Fan into a plan targeting the Tai Clan.

• Li Baimei revealed his power over time, and Jin Wuliang demanded that Lu Changzhi hand it over or cooperate, threatening everyone trapped in the World in the Painting.
• Lu Changzhi traded Jin Wuliang the power of time for A Luo’s release, then revealed that Jin Wuliang could not escape the painting and summoned help while A Luo reunited with her restored Artifact Spirit, A Diao.
• Lu Changzhi, A Luo, and A Diao battered Jin Wuliang with melon shots and artifact attacks, while Li Baimei borrowed Jiang Tong’s strength and struck Jin Wuliang with his first form.
• Li Baimei challenged Jin Wuliang with his second form, after which Jin Wuliang vanished from the painting and Jiang Tong impaled him outside it.
• Li Baimei’s return led the Huaxia Sect and Tai Clan to debate the Power of Time, while a Huaxia Sect senior marked Li Baimei so he could call upon its power and Yang Xiong gave him a status token.
• Lu Changzhi brought A Luo and A Diao out of the painting, returned with Jiang Kui to the Jiang Clan, and learned from A Luo about the Source of Heaven and Earth and the Chaos Seed.
• Jiang Tong gave Lu Changzhi his father’s stick to help obtain the Source of Heaven and Earth, and Lu Changzhi tested its strange power on Xiao Ming and Mu Fan.
• Jiang Qingya told Lu Changzhi that the Jiang Clan planned to claim the Tai Clan had mastered the Power That Cannot Be Controlled, and Lu Changzhi enlisted Mu Fan to help spread the impression.