Recaps

Lin Xu defeated a dungeon legion, strengthened Azure Cloud Mountain and Xuanwei Monastery, and expanded the monastery’s villages and resources. After discovering a concealed black market, he attacked Jiang Hanyan and faced her sword techniques in an aerial battle.

• Lin Xu’s forces defeated the dungeon legion at Azure Cloud Mountain, killing the Manticore, driving off the giant city lord, and taking many survivors prisoner.
• Lin Xu was appointed master of the Incense Offering Hall, transformed captured Evil Eyes and dark mages into allies, and helped prepare Xuanwei Monastery’s army for its decisive attack on the dungeon.
• Lin Xu recruited disciples and villagers, organized farming and incense offerings, and used spirit-patterned tools to develop the monastery’s villages.
• Lin Xu found the frontline camp abandoned and discovered the monastery’s elders guarding a fissure, then returned to Azure Cloud Mountain with wounded people and captives.
• Lin Xu found a positioning beacon on Duan Wei, destroyed it, and took Qiuqiu and the Evil Eyes to survey Xuanwei Monastery’s territory and its resource sites.
• Lin Xu captured a tiger yao, found a vermilion fruit vine and a fleeceflower patch, and located an abandoned mountain stronghold while surveying the territory.
• Lin Xu discovered a concealed black market and had the Evil Eyes control several wolf demons and lawbreakers.
• Lin Xu identified Jiang Hanyan as a powerful sword cultivator and attacked her after she left the black market, but she evaded the Evil Eyes’ paralysis and fought back with Sword Qi.

Lin Xu helped Xuanwei Monastery defeat the giant city lord, claimed its Dungeon Heart, and established a dungeon beneath the monastery. He rebuilt Xuanwei Monastery’s forces and connected its territory to Azure Cloud Mountain, preparing to train and expand his army.

• Lin Xu subdued Jiang Hanyan, brought Liu Mochen back to Xuanwei Monastery, and created a cultivation method suited to Jiang Hanyan’s sword intent.
• Lin Xu led reinforcements to the frontline, took charge of six resource points, and used a Wedding Procession Ghost to explore Gray Rock Dungeon and locate its treasure, Dungeon Heart, and hidden city lord.
• Lin Xu’s ghosts sabotaged the dungeon’s magic circuits while the giant city lord attacked the Daoist forces, and Lin Xu’s troops joined the battle as the monastery’s leaders fell.
• Daoist Xuanzhen killed the giant city lord and entrusted Lin Xu with a jade seal, and Lin Xu led the survivors to destroy the Dungeon Heart before the city could revive.
• Lin Xu and his forces killed the revived city lord and shattered the Dungeon Heart, then escaped the collapsing dungeon and recovered treasure from the crater.
• Lin Xu claimed Xuanwei Monastery as his territory, recruited hundreds of disciples and Dao soldiers, and gave Jiang Hanyan the Heavenly Origin Concealed Light Sword.
• Lin Xu hatched Think Thrice, placed the Dungeon Heart in a cavern beneath the monastery, and used it to establish a new dungeon connected to three Spirit Veins.
• Lin Xu built dungeon facilities and began training troops as his forces secured Azure Cloud Mountain, then merged its territory with Xuanwei Monastery.

Lin Xu became Meng City's Pioneer Lord, stopped the Wheel of Fate's invasion, and brought the city under his growing authority. He began organizing the Night Watchers and expanding his territory, while the captured orc territory drew close to Xuanwei Monastery.

• Lin Xu claimed the Outpost Barracks, saved its soldiers from Weird Spiders, and built it into a fortified settlement while expanding his territory's workforce and infrastructure.
• Lin Xu returned to Meng City, killed a cultist preparing a sacrifice, and learned from Old Master Jiang that the Wheel of Fate cult was weakening the city's reality barrier.
• Lin Xu accepted Xia Jingyi's offer to become deputy director, but Chen Lingfeng's forces attacked the Jiang Clan compound before an orc invasion erupted in the Third Ring district.
• Lin Xu destroyed sacrifice arrays and killed the Changeling, though Yinyin died, and he then discovered the Chen Lineage's territory and helped anchor Meng City to the Spirit Realm.
• Lin Xu projected Xuanwei Monastery into Meng City, drove back the orcs, and led his forces through the passage to defeat the Bone Anvil Tribe and capture its territory.
• Lin Xu negotiated his role as Meng City's Pioneer Lord, opened a passage for residents, recruited the invasion's dead as villagers, and transformed Night Watchers into Daoist acolytes.
• Lin Xu restored Yinyin as Xu Yinyin, prepared to establish a church, and ordered the Night Watchers to investigate Chen Lingfeng and destroy the Wheel of Fate's remaining strongholds.
• Lin Xu secured Xia Jingyi's support and gifts, discussed careers and state agreements, and showed Jiang Wanqing, Mother Lin, and Elder Jiang around Xuanwei Monastery as the captured territory approached.

Lin Xu seized and developed the orc territory, destroyed the Chen Lineage, and recruited allies while building his military strength. As Jiang Wanqing joined the Lords’ Council, she sought strategic supplies for Qimeng City and revealed its capacity to produce Spirit Realm goods.

• Lin Xu connected the orc territory to Xuanwei Monastery, upgraded its Life Totem and farms, and recruited villagers to expand livestock production.
• Lin Xu gave Jiang Wanqing a Dharma Seed, and she opened her Divine Aperture, became a Daoist, and shared the Jiang Clan’s Spirit Pivot Qi Guiding Art with him.
• Lin Xu built up his forces, defeated the Giant Weird Spider, and rescued the Wang Lineage in exchange for their service and their blacksmith’s shop.
• Lin Xu led an assault on Chen Lineage Fort, killed Chen Lingfeng, seized the territory, and discovered a dragon-patterned jade pendant and an Age of Empires dungeon scroll.
• Lin Xu recruited corpse drivers and established the Zombie Mine as a training ground, where his forces captured zombies and the corpse drivers began refining them.
• Jiang Wanqing joined the Lords’ Council, where Gu Qiancheng welcomed Lin Xu as a Pioneer Lord and warned that cult-linked evil gods were influencing the real world.
• The council rejected a proposal to rebuild the Yulin Guard under unified military control, and Jiang Wanqing abstained as Li Mengyao warned her about opposition to the Lin Lineage’s rise.
• Jiang Wanqing requested a direct trade channel with Night Watchers headquarters, but the Jiang Lineage liaison refused, and she then displayed a Spirit Grain Pill and announced Qimeng City could produce talismans and magic artifacts.