An Le, a descendant of the imperial house of the fallen kingdom of Xian Le, was left in charge of preparations for the Golden Feast by the ruler of Yong An. While on the surface, An Le was a good friend to the Yong An Imperial Family, there was a darkness in his heart that Qi Rong took advantage of. When Fangxin (Xie Lian) arrives late to the banquet, he encounters something shocking, and is forced to make a choice...

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng enter the lair of the Night-Touring Green Lantern, Qi Rong. After a brief, violent confrontation, Qi Rong reveals the truth about the Yong'an massacre but other surprising truths are also told.

A masked ghost leads Xie Lian to the Paradise Manor, where Hua Cheng is waiting for him. Later on, Xie Lian meets the bandaged boy from Yu Jun Mountain again and recalls a similar boy he met eight hundred years ago.

Hua Cheng leads Xie Lian away from the Heavenly Realm. Meanwhile, Feng Xin and Mu Qing encounter many obstacles while attempting to rescue him, and Lang Qianqiu has a plan of his own.

After finding out more information about "Crimson Rain Sought Flower" and escaping the Ghost Festival, Xie Lian invites San Lang to stay in the temple. In the morning he finds a painting of the Crown Prince hanging above the altar.

The Martial God of the East, Lang Qianqiu, causes a commotion in the ghost king's gambling hall, forcing Xie Lian to play a dice game against the king himself, Hua Cheng, to save his comrade.

Merchants are going missing in Banyue Pass and Xie Lian is joined by Fu Yao and Nan Feng to investigate. The latter are very weary and suspicious of San Lang but a sand storm that takes Xie Lian away interrupts their bickering.

17 brides have been kidnapped by a ghost groom for over 100 years at Mount Yujun. Xie Lian descends to the mortal realm to help defeat the mountain's ghost and gain the merits of this mission to pay off his debt.

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng are still walking together through the forest. They stop and Hua Cheng attempts to lift Xie Lian's veil, but he sends out Ruoye to attack. Hua Cheng dissolves into silver butterflies and Xie Lian notices he was guided to an abandoned Ming Guang temple. He proceeds to enter and discovers the seventeen missing, but already dead, brides. When he suddenly hears the Ghost Bridegroom come in, he quickly hides among the brides. As the person checks the brides, Xie Lian tries to attack them. However, they manage to turn into black fog and escape.

After the dead brides come to live, the villagers run back and seek shelter in the courtyard of the Ming Guang temple. Xie Lian tries to distract the brides with Ruoye, but after even more villagers come into the courtyard, the brides once again start attacking them. Xie Lian creates a protection circle with Ruoye instead and the villagers manage to save themselves inside of it.

Reunited, the four seek shelter in a cave where they find a group of merchants and their guide. Scorpion Snakes surround them and Xie Lian and uncle Zheng are stung and the only antidote, the Shanyue Fern, is in the Banyue kingdom.

Xie Lian jumps the pit taking Kemo with him. He gets caught by San Lang, who seems to be different. With all the pit soldiers dead Kemo recalls the story of the downfall of his kingdom at the hands of the Imperial Preceptor.

Xie Lian gets angry with Hua Cheng for revealing the truth about the Golden Feast Massacre to Lang Qianqiu. But Hua Cheng tells him plainly that Xie Lian did nothing wrong. When he realizes that Hua Cheng trusts him absolutely, and is the one person to see through to the truth of the matter, he says aloud that he wonders if they've met somewhere before...

When the Imperial Preceptor joins them, it's an unexpected reunion between her and Xie Lian the two having met over 200 years ago. Ban Yue apologizes for the treason but denies using the scorpion snakes to attack people.