Recaps

Ye discovered that Little Fairy Doctor had lost control of her Calamity Poison Body and fought to subdue her while his puppets and Mu Qingluan kept Qiu Yin occupied. After binding Little Fairy Doctor, Ye pursued Qiu Yin as he tried to escape.

• Ye found Little Fairy Doctor had advanced to Two-Star Dou Zong but was attacking him in a mindless, poisoned frenzy.
• Ye sent his puppets to hold off Qiu Yin and used an antidote, Human Aura, and Lightning Phantom Bodies to withstand Little Fairy Doctor’s attacks.
• Ye saturated Little Fairy Doctor with Human Aura, weakening her Dou Qi, then had Ye Lao Na bind her with an iron chain.
• Mu Qingluan and the Long Spear Puppet wounded Qiu Yin, who fled when Little Fairy Doctor was captured.
• Ye chased after Qiu Yin and struck at his back with Illusory Lightning Cliff.

Nalan Ye discovered that Little Fairy Doctor’s soul was covered in innate Poison Great Dao Dao Rhyme, making her a Venerable from birth, and tried to reach her through it. After Human Aura failed to restore her senses, he risked touching her soul and heard her recognize him.

• Qiu Yin escaped after Nalan Ye wounded him, and Mu Qingluan could not identify what kind of Magical Beast he was.
• Nalan Ye examined the frenzied, restrained Little Fairy Doctor and found that poison-attribute Dao Rhyme covered nearly all of her soul.
• Cai Lin explained that Little Fairy Doctor was born with ninety-nine percent of the Poison Great Dao, though her power remained hidden and uncontrolled.
• Nalan Ye used Human Aura to pierce holes in Little Fairy Doctor’s Dao Rhyme, but she did not respond.
• Nalan Ye sent a thread of Soul Power through one of the holes and heard Little Fairy Doctor ask whether he was Nalan Ye.

Nalan Ye freed Little Fairy Doctor from the poison mist and chains, then declined Cai Lin’s demand to go to the Pill Hall immediately so he could rest and care for her. He took Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan to a valley for dinner, leaving their next move for the following day.

• Nalan Ye contacted Little Fairy Doctor through their souls and reassured her that her Calamity Poison Body had not harmed anyone in the Snake-People Ancestral Land.
• Little Fairy Doctor woke, found herself chained, and asked Nalan Ye to free her; he removed the chains and introduced her to Mu Qingluan.
• Mu Qingluan learned that Yao Lao had been captured by the Hall of Souls and asked Nalan Ye to visit Starfall Pavilion and tell her teacher, Wind Venerable, about him.
• Cai Lin urged Nalan Ye to go to the Pill Hall, but he refused, citing his injuries and Little Fairy Doctor’s condition.
• Nalan Ye took Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan to a sheltered valley, cooked a meal from the Magical Beasts he had hunted, and told them they had important business the next day.

Yao Xiaotian ordered the Nether Snake Guard to kill the humans who had entered the Snake-People Ancestral Land, while Nalan Ye finally yielded to Cai Lin’s pleas and traveled to the Pill Hall. He arrived with the Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan to find other powerful figures already searching the ruins.

• Dian Jiyun reported that humans had opened the Snake-People Small World, and the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python elders debated whether the Snake-People had returned.
• The Great Elder insisted the Snake-People Tribe was extinct, and Yao Xiaotian ordered the Nether Snake Guard to slaughter every human in the ancestral land.
• Cai Lin repeatedly urged Nalan Ye to go to the Pill Hall, and he agreed after making her sing for him.
• Nalan Ye set out with the Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan, and the group reached the Pill Hall at dawn without finding Qing Lin.
• Nalan Ye saw powerful figures searching the ruined Pill Hall and anticipated another fight.

Nalan Ye entered the Pill Hall ruins with Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan, searching for the underground main hall while magical beasts scavenged aboveground. At the entrance, the Golden Centipede King accused the humans of possessing the Snake-People legacy and moved to attack them.

• Nalan Ye consulted Cai Lin’s map and learned that the Pill Hall’s main hall lay deep underground, then flew there with Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan.
• Mu Qingluan explained that magical beasts once ruled the continent, but humans had risen while many beasts still clung to their ancient superiority.
• Nalan Ye released his Three Star Dou Zong aura, frightening the lower-ranked beasts, and the group reached the underground entrance.
• Mu Qingluan introduced Zi Ling, the Earth Tiger King, and the Golden Centipede King, who said the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan had likely taken the hall’s treasures.
• The Golden Centipede King proposed capturing Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor to seize the supposed Snake-People legacy, but Mu Qingluan rejected him.
• The Golden Centipede King threatened Mu Qingluan and gathered sharp golden Dou Qi as he prepared to attack.

Zi Ling sided with Mu Qingluan as the battle against the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King began, but Qiu Yin arrived with two powerful allies and turned the fight against the group. The chapter ended with the black-dressed woman catching the Nine-Section Copper Mace barehanded, leaving the narrator stunned by her strength.

• Zi Ling stood with Mu Qingluan, and the narrator attacked the Golden Centipede King with help from the Long Spear Puppet and four Azure Serpent Guards.
• The narrator raised his strength to Four Star Dou Zong and cracked the Golden Centipede King's carapace while Mu Qingluan, the Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Ling, and the Azure Serpent Guards pressed the Earth Tiger King.
• Qiu Yin arrived with a man and a woman, ambushing the narrator and sending his allies into new fights.
• The black-dressed woman nearly struck the Little Fairy Doctor, but an Azure Serpent Guard took the blow and gave her time to escape.
• The narrator attacked the black-dressed woman with his Nine-Section Copper Mace, but she caught it with her bare hands and barely injured herself.

Nalan Ye’s group encountered the Qiu Clan siblings in the Pill Hall Ruins and fled toward the Arms Hall, but Qiu Yin pursued them. Nalan Ye counterattacked and pinned down Qiu Yin while the others fought, as the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King circled toward Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan.

• The Black-Skirted Girl stopped Nalan Ye’s mace and struck him, then Qiu Yin, Qiu Wu, and Qiu Si identified themselves as Qiu Clan siblings.
• Nalan Ye led his group toward the Arms Hall, and Qiu Yin, Qiu Si, and Qiu Wu chased after them.
• Nalan Ye used his Lightning Phantom Body and Illusory Lightning Cliff to wound Qiu Yin, then followed with a barrage of punches.
• Zi Ling fought Qiu Wu while the puppets struggled against Qiu Si, and Nalan Ye’s allies gained the advantage over Qiu Yin.
• The Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King tried to capture Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan, and Mu Qingluan spotted them approaching.

Mu Qingluan and the Little Fairy Doctor fled toward the Arms Hall while Nalan Ye fought Qiu Yin and the pursuing beast kings. After Nalan Ye wounded Qiu Yin and raced to protect them, Mi Gu Vine erupted from the ground and attacked the two women.

• The Little Fairy Doctor refused to abandon Nalan Ye, so Mu Qingluan carried her toward the Arms Hall while the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King pursued them.
• Qiu Yin struck Nalan Ye as he hesitated to save the Little Fairy Doctor, but Nalan Ye borrowed Cai Lin's Soul Power and wounded Qiu Yin with a lightning-infused attack.
• Nalan Ye turned toward the Golden Centipede King, while the Earth Tiger King let him pass and Mu Qingluan circled around to meet him.
• Mi Gu Vine burst from the ground beneath Mu Qingluan and the Little Fairy Doctor, and Cai Lin recognized the attacking vines.

Nalan Ye struggled against the Mi Gu Vine as it captured Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan, then charged into danger to rescue them while Qiu Yin attacked from outside. Meanwhile, the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan sent a force of twenty-one Seventh-Order Magical Beasts into the Snake-People Ancestral Land to eliminate the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Mi Gu Vine trapped Mu Qingluan and Little Fairy Doctor in a cage of tendrils and dragged them toward the ground.
• Nalan Ye tried to cut the vines, but Qiu Yin closed in behind him while the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King watched.
• Little Fairy Doctor urged Nalan Ye to deal with Qiu Yin first, but Nalan Ye charged into the vines to save her.
• Qiu Yin attacked Nalan Ye from outside the vines, and Mi Gu Vine battered him as Little Fairy Doctor's Calamity Poison Body began to lose control.
• A petite purple figure appeared in the distant sky as Nalan Ye continued fighting the vines.
• You Duo led Dian Jiyun and nineteen Nether Snake Guards into the Snake-People Ancestral Land to hunt the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

Ye Wentian and his allies fought the Mi Gu Vine and Qiu Yin until Zi Yan arrived and turned the battle in their favor. After Ye Wentian rescued the Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan, Zi Yan confronted Qiu Yin with her own Dragon Emperor Fist.

• Zi Yan appeared at the Mi Gu Vine battlefield, recognized Ye Wentian, and charged to help him.
• Zi Yan blocked Qiu Yin and broke his arm with a punch, sending him flying.
• Cai Lin used Devouring Heaven and Earth to draw back the Mi Gu Vine's vines, and Ye Wentian freed the Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan and swallowed them into the Devouring Heaven Python's mouth.
• Qiu Yin summoned a black five-clawed divine dragon with his Dragon Emperor Fist and attacked Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan revealed that she knew the Dragon Emperor Fist too and summoned a golden five-clawed divine dragon.

Zi Yan’s Dragon Emperor Fist revealed her identity to Qiu Si, Qiu Yin, and Qiu Wu, who had been sent to find her and bring her back to Dragon Island. After Zi Yan refused to return, Ye Wentian persuaded her to stay with him by promising that Little Fairy Doctor would make her medicinal pills.

• Zi Yan unleashed the Dragon Emperor Fist, and Qiu Yin, Qiu Wu, and Qiu Si recognized her as the Ancient Void Dragon Race’s princess.
• Qiu Si and Qiu Yin knelt before Zi Yan and explained that their clan had been ordered to find her and take her back to Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan threatened to silence them and told Ye Wentian to help stop them from escaping, but Ye Wentian questioned whether they should kill Dragon Island’s envoys.
• Zi Yan told Ye Wentian that she had fled Dragon Island because its elders restricted her freedom and wanted her to become the Dragon Emperor.
• Ye Wentian decided that helping Zi Yan could secure the Ancient Void Dragon Clan as an ally, and he encouraged her to stay in his small world.
• Ye Wentian introduced Little Fairy Doctor as an alchemist, and Zi Yan agreed to stay after he promised she would make her delicious medicinal pills.

Zi Yan ended the standoff by forcing the Qiu siblings to pursue the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King, while Ye Wentian and his companions recovered. Twenty-one Seventh-Order Nine Nether Earth Hell Pythons then appeared, and their leader You Duo identified the humans and prepared to attack.

• Zi Yan stopped Ye Wentian from pursuing the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King and ordered Qiu Yin, Qiu Si, and Qiu Wu to chase them instead.
• The Qiu siblings defeated and killed the Golden Centipede King and Earth Tiger King, while Ye Wentian checked on his companions and gave Zi Yan medicinal pills to eat.
• A horde of twenty-one Seventh-Order Nine Nether Earth Hell Pythons approached, and Cai Lin recognized them as enemies and urged Ye Wentian to secure the ancestral land's halls.
• Ye Wentian gathered his companions and headed toward the King's Hall, hoping to find Heavenly Flame Venerable while Cai Lin considered going ahead to seek his help.
• You Duo detected Ye Wentian and Little Fairy Doctor, ordered the pythons to pursue them, and revealed an aura at the Seventh-Order peak Venerable level.

The narrator and the others fled from You Duo after discovering he was a Venerable, but Zi Yan and Little Fairy Doctor chose to stay and fight alongside the narrator. The chapter ended with You Duo knocking Zi Yan away as the narrator’s Purple Lightning Line struck his neck.

• The narrator urged everyone to run as You Duo and the Nether Snake Guards pursued them.
• Zi Yan refused to return to Dragon Island and attacked You Duo with Dragon Emperor Fist, but he shattered her golden dragon phantom.
• The narrator told Little Fairy Doctor and Mu Qingluan to seek Heavenly Flame Venerable at the King's Hall, then stayed behind to hold You Duo off.
• Little Fairy Doctor refused to leave and said she wanted to face failure together with the narrator, even if they died.
• Zi Yan used her blood to strengthen herself and charged You Duo, who struck her down as the narrator attacked his neck with Purple Lightning Line.

The narrator and his allies fought You Duo, a Venerable serpent, and the narrator linked seven Dou Zong powerhouses with human aura to gather their strength. As his attack threatened You Duo, the serpent formed a black shell and charged straight at him.

• The narrator struck You Duo's neck, and Qiu Yin, Mu Qingluan, Zi Ling, and the others attacked while Little Fairy Doctor dusted his wound with poison.
• You Duo swept aside the group’s attacks and launched black blades, which the narrator blocked with Lightning Fire Thunder Chariot as his allies suffered injuries.
• Zi Yan recovered from You Duo’s collision and charged again alongside the narrator’s puppets, while the narrator asked Little Fairy Doctor, Mu Qingluan, Zi Ling, Qiu Yin, Qiu Si, and Qiu Wu to cooperate.
• The narrator used Red Dust Rolling to link the seven Dou Zong powerhouses and drew their Dou Qi and the surrounding energy into himself.
• You Duo sensed the narrator’s growing power, formed a hard shell of black mist, and charged at him with Serpent Hegemony King.

Ye Wentian and his allies struck You Duo with a powerful combined attack, but he survived and surrounded them with his guards. With escape impossible, Ye Wentian tried to distract You Duo by blaming Long Xi for opening the Snake-People Ancestral Land.

• Cai Lin told Ye Wentian that Heavenly Flame Venerable was coming to rescue him, and Ye Wentian launched Thousands Pointing Fingers at You Duo with his allies’ strength.
• Little Fairy Doctor detonated poison inside You Duo, disrupting his Dou Qi and letting Ye Wentian’s attack break through his defenses and tear his scales.
• You Duo recovered without a weakened aura and taunted Ye Wentian, who admitted he could not use Thousands Pointing Fingers again because of the toll on his body and soul.
• Little Fairy Doctor offered to use her Calamity Poison Body, but Ye Wentian refused and asked You Duo why he was attacking them.
• You Duo and his nineteen Nether Snake Guards and Dian Jiyun surrounded Ye Wentian’s group, and Ye Wentian claimed Long Xi had opened the Snake-People Ancestral Land.
• You Duo questioned Ye Wentian about Long Xi’s connection to the Snake-People Tribe and how Long Xi had learned to open the small world.

You Duo saw through the narrator’s false story and ordered the Nether Snake Guards to attack, but the Heavenly Flame Venerable arrived to hold him off. The group fought its way toward the Pill Hall, where Cai Lin was refining the last of the five halls needed to control the Snake-People Ancestral Land.

• The narrator claimed Long Xi had found Snake-People relics in the Northwest Territory, but You Duo rejected the story and ordered everyone killed.
• Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan challenged You Duo, who threatened to kill them despite their clans and broke his promise to spare the group.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable arrived, confronted You Duo, and forced him to focus on their fight while the Nether Snake Guards charged the group.
• Zi Yan led the group’s breakout as Zi Ling, the Long Spear Puppet, the Little Fairy Doctor, Mu Qingluan, Qiu Yin, and his companions fought to protect their formation.
• You Duo fired a black pillar of light at the fleeing group, but the Heavenly Flame Venerable shielded them and told them to head for the Pill Hall.
• The narrator explained that Cai Lin was refining the King’s Hall and that refining the Pill Hall would bring the Snake-People Ancestral Land under their control.

I used the Three Thousand Lightning Movement to send a Lightning Phantom Body toward the Pill Hall while Heavenly Flame Venerable held off You Duo and the Nether Snake Guards. Cai Lin explored the ruined King's Hall in the Snake-People Ancestral Land, reflecting on its former splendor.

• Zi Yan struggled against the coordinated attacks of the Nether Snake Guards, and I asked Cai Lin how to turn the battle around.
• Cai Lin said I needed to refine the Pill Hall before she could help, so I decided to send my Lightning Phantom Body there instead of going myself.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable agreed to cover me and exchanged powerful attacks with You Duo, drawing the Nether Snake Guards' attention.
• I secretly dispatched Ye Lao Na through cracks in the ground toward the Pill Hall, then told Heavenly Flame Venerable to keep stalling You Duo.
• Cai Lin walked through the ruined King's Hall and wondered whether the extravagance of the former Medusa Queen had been connected to the Snake-People Tribe's extinction.

Cai Lin refined the Snake-People King’s Hall and gained control of the ancestral land’s spatial restriction while the narrator’s group struggled against Dian Jiyun and the Nether Snake Guards. She suddenly appeared on the battlefield and teleported away eighteen guards, leaving Dian Jiyun and the last guard stunned.

• Cai Lin refined the King’s Hall, but the Heavenly Snake Mansion members never appeared, and she and the narrator wondered where they had gone.
• The narrator and seven others fought Dian Jiyun and nineteen Nether Snake Guards while the Heavenly Flame Venerable battled You Duo overhead.
• After Ye Lao Na arrived at the Pill Hall and refined it, Cai Lin appeared behind the narrator without warning.
• Cai Lin explained that controlling the Five Great Halls had let her take control of the self-repairing spatial restriction throughout the ancestral land.
• Cai Lin teleported away eighteen Nether Snake Guards, leaving Dian Jiyun and the remaining guard rooted in shock.

The narrator and his allies turned the battle in the Snake-People Ancestral Land, killing Dian Jiyun and the last Nether Snake Guard nearby. Cai Lin revealed that the other eighteen Nether Snake Guards had been scattered across the ancestral land and directed everyone to finish the remaining enemy first.

• The Space Channel to the Snake-People Ancestral Land disappeared, prompting most Magical Beasts outside it to leave Qingmao Mountain.
• The narrator, Mu Qingluan, Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Ling, and Zi Yan attacked Dian Jiyun after most of the Nether Snake Guards vanished.
• Dian Jiyun countered the narrator's lightning technique, but the group overwhelmed him, and Zi Yan grabbed his tail and smashed him into the ground.
• The narrator beheaded Dian Jiyun with Illusory Lightning Cliff while Qiu Yin and his siblings beat the remaining Nether Snake Guard to death.
• Cai Lin dismissed the narrator's complaint about her mockery and explained that she had scattered the other eighteen Nether Snake Guards across the ancestral land.
• Cai Lin pointed out that Heavenly Flame Venerable and You Duo were still fighting and ordered the group to finish him off first.

Cai Lin drew on the small world’s power and Nalan Ye’s strength, then joined Heavenly Flame Venerable in fighting You Duo. She used her ability to teleport around the ancestral land to help Heavenly Flame Venerable attack while evading You Duo’s blows, leaving You Duo enraged.

• Nalan Ye admitted he was too badly injured to use Thousands Pointing Fingers again, and Little Fairy Doctor gave him Healing Pills.
• Cai Lin chanted and danced to draw on the small world’s power, raising her cultivation to Seven Star Dou Zong.
• Cai Lin asked Nalan Ye to lend her his power, then joined Heavenly Flame Venerable in attacking You Duo.
• Cai Lin teleported away from You Duo’s black energy beam and explained that she could teleport anywhere in the ancestral land.
• Cai Lin helped Heavenly Flame Venerable evade You Duo’s attacks while he struck back, and You Duo shook with fury.

Cai Lin and Heavenly Flame Venerable trapped You Duo in the hidden small world and thwarted his attempt to summon reinforcements. They continued overwhelming him, and Heavenly Flame Venerable prepared to finish the battle in flames.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable burned You Duo with Beacon Fires Lasting Three Months, while Cai Lin teleported him out of You Duo's counterattack.
• You Duo tried to open a space wormhole to summon an eighth-rank Nine Nether Earth Hell Python, but Cai Lin sealed the space and Heavenly Flame Venerable interrupted him with a strike.
• You Duo charged at Little Fairy Doctor and the others, but Cai Lin teleported them and the narrator's physical body away.
• The narrator laughed at You Duo's predicament, and Cai Lin pinned his soul into the sand of her Soul World.
• Cai Lin and Heavenly Flame Venerable continued attacking You Duo as Heavenly Flame Venerable declared that everything would end in flames.

You Duo triggered a Dou Sheng tribulation while fighting Cai Lin and Heavenly Flame Venerable, forcing them to retreat to the Snake-People King's Hall. Nalan Ye and the others began gathering treasures, uncertain whether You Duo would survive and become an eighth-rank magical beast.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable sent a flaming Heavenly Demon Phoenix at the wounded You Duo, who unleashed his power and summoned a Dou Sheng tribulation.
• You Duo's black mist destroyed the phoenix, and Heavenly Flame Venerable warned Cai Lin and Nalan Ye to leave before the tribulation engulfed them.
• Cai Lin proposed using Nalan Ye's Boundless Human Sea to let Heavenly Flame Venerable attack You Duo, but Nalan Ye said it could not evade a Dou Sheng tribulation.
• Cai Lin and Heavenly Flame Venerable retreated to the Snake-People King's Hall, leaving You Duo to face the lightning strikes as the outcome remained unknown.
• Cai Lin brought Little Fairy Doctor, Mu Qingluan, Zi Yan, and the others to the hall, where Nalan Ye urged them to gather the treasures and wait out the danger.

As You Duo faced his tribulation, Nalan Ye and the others feared an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast might kill them, so they searched the ruined King's Hall for treasures before fleeing. Cai Lin discovered Wang Ping at the King's Tomb and urgently called Nalan Ye and the Heavenly Flame Venerable there.

• Qiu Yin and Mu Qingluan urged Zi Yan and Nalan Ye's group to escape to Dragon Island or flee the area because You Duo might become an Eighth-Rank Magical Beast.
• Cai Lin teleported away to gather treasures, while Nalan Ye and the others searched the King's Hall ruins.
• Nalan Ye demolished a palace and found scarlet heart jade, then collected valuable furnishings and building materials with his companions.
• Zi Yan smashed a pavilion to search for treasure, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable showed Nalan Ye a charred branch of rare sweet chinquapin wood suitable for refining Eighth-Rank Pills.
• Cai Lin sensed Wang Ping at the King's Tomb and called Nalan Ye and the Heavenly Flame Venerable to hurry there.

Wang Ping led the Heavenly Snake Mansion group into a King's Tomb and helped Qing Lin absorb the bloodline-refining pool left by a Snake-People Dou Sheng. Cai Lin and Nalan Ye arrived and found the group had taken the Azure Silk Queen's inheritance, leaving Nalan Ye torn after he recognized Qing Lin as one of their own.

• Wang Ping chose a relatively recent King's Tomb and led Qing Yue, Long Xi, Qing Lin, and Black Water Profound Yin through its obstacles to the underground palace.
• Wang Ping identified the blood-red pool as a Snake-People bloodline refinement pool and told Qing Lin to absorb its energy.
• Qing Lin sat in the pool and began absorbing its energy, causing her aura to rise steadily.
• Cai Lin and Nalan Ye were teleported into the palace, where they confronted the Heavenly Snake Mansion group over the Azure Silk Queen's inheritance.
• Nalan Ye spotted Qing Lin in the pool and thought that she was one of their own.

Nalan Ye tried to prevent a fight over the King's Tomb inheritance while Cai Lin and Qing Yue struggled for control of the Inheritance King Seal. He urged everyone to leave before You Duo completed his tribulation, but Qing Yue insisted Qing Lin stay to absorb the pool water, and Long Xi proposed attacking You Duo after his tribulation.

• Cai Lin demanded that Qing Yue, Wang Ping, and the others surrender what they had taken from the King's Tomb, while Qing Yue argued that Qing Lin deserved the inheritance.
• Qing Yue used hand seals to weaken Cai Lin's control of the Inheritance King Seal, prompting Cai Lin to call on Heavenly Flame Venerable as Wang Ping prepared to confront him.
• Nalan Ye stepped between the opposing sides and persuaded Cai Lin and Heavenly Flame Venerable to stand down, then explained the danger posed by You Duo's tribulation.
• Qing Lin woke from cultivation and said the pool water had increased her strength, but Qing Yue explained that its energy would dissipate if removed from the pool.
• Long Xi suggested that Wang Ping kill You Duo after the tribulation, while Nalan Ye urged Qing Lin to leave; Qing Yue blocked him and insisted Qing Lin finish absorbing the pool water.