Recaps

During Li Qing’s six-month seclusion, Gui Li destroyed Jade Bamboo Valley with the Four Symbols Suppressing Heaven Cauldron, and rumors spread that the Pure Yang Physique had formed a core at Sun Gathering Cave. Li Qing emerged from seclusion at Hundred Refinements Peak after consuming thousand-year dragon marrow and advanced to Mid Core Formation.

• Gui Li used the Four Symbols Suppressing Heaven Cauldron to destroy Jade Bamboo Valley and kill its patriarch, Old Lord Kuzhu, while Ghost Sword Sect seized the valley’s resources.
• Cultivators linked Jade Bamboo Valley’s destruction to the Four Symbols Suppressing Heaven Cauldron, making Taiyi Sect hesitate to seek revenge and alarming the other demonic sects.
• Cultivators discovered that Sun Gathering Cave’s Pure Yang Energy had vanished and suspected the Pure Yang Physique had formed a core there and refined his Natal Magic Treasure.
• Ghost Sword Sect, Yin Puppet Sect, and Blood Spirit Sect jointly offered a bounty for information about the Pure Yang Physique.
• Li Qing emerged from seclusion at Hundred Refinements Peak after absorbing a portion of thousand-year dragon marrow and advanced from Early Core Formation to Mid Core Formation.

After reaching Mid Core Formation, Li Qing learned that Shangqing Sect was hunting his master, Ancestor Bingyun, in the northern Great Desolation Region. He resolved to rescue her and began devising a plan to exploit the conflict between the righteous and devil paths.

• Li Qing stabilized his Mid Core Formation cultivation after using thousand-year dragon marrow from Ghost Sword Sect.
• Shen Ningbing told Li Qing that Shangqing Sect cultivators were searching for a female ice-element Core Formation cultivator and had mentioned Lingyun Sect remnants.
• Li Qing reassured Shen Ningbing that he would not abandon Ancestor Bingyun and burned the intelligence report after reading it.
• Li Qing concluded that Shangqing Sect was colluding with Taiyi Sect and said they needed to assess the regional conflict before attempting a rescue.
• Li Qing learned that Gui Li and Ghost Sword Sect had destroyed Jade Bamboo Valley, and that the devil path had offered a substantial reward for the Pure Yang Physique.
• Li Qing planned to use the devil path's assembled forces to create a diversion and exploit the chaos while rescuing Ancestor Bingyun.

Li Qing spread false news to draw rogue cultivators into the western snowfields and disrupt Shangqing Sect’s pursuit of Ancestor Bingyun. The scheme led Shangqing Sect and a crowd of cultivators to a melting glacier, where they found a golden feather and converged on the site.

• Li Qing paid a rogue cultivator to spread a story that the western snowfields held traces of the Pure Yang Physique, sending gathered cultivators rushing there.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing used the resulting confusion to hinder Shangqing Sect as Shen Ningbing followed the lingering aura of Ancestor Bingyun.
• True Person Xuanhe dismissed the compass interference and led Shangqing Sect toward the southeast after its compass locked onto a clear direction.
• Shangqing Sect elders found a golden feather wrapped in sinister-cold ice inside a melting glacier.
• Rogue cultivators, including Core Formation cultivators, arrived and surrounded the glacier, believing it was connected to the Pure Yang Physique.

Li Qing attacked the Shangqing Sect cultivators after they fought over a Golden Fire Crow spirit feather, then turned the gathering Rogue Cultivators against True Person Xuanhe’s group. Xuanhe summoned his cranes and Natal Magic Treasure to resist Li Qing’s Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame.

• True Person Xuanhe ordered a Shangqing Sect elder to surrender the ice crystals and Golden Fire Crow spirit feather to the Rogue Cultivators, but they discovered it no longer held any Pure Yang power.
• The Rogue Cultivators fought over the feather until Li Qing unleashed his Spirit Devouring Flame Python, killing several Shangqing Sect Foundation Establishment elders and forcing the others back.
• Li Qing taunted Xuanhe and urged the Rogue Cultivators to stop the Shangqing Sect group from leaving, prompting them to question the group’s origins.
• Li Qing attacked Xuanhe with black flame blossoms, and Xuanhe crushed a Jade Pendant before summoning immortal cranes and wielding his Crane Feather Fan to counter them.
• A watching cultivator recognized Li Qing’s flames as the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame.

Li Qing severely injured True Person Xuanhe, then killed the fleeing Shangqing Sect elders and left before the other rogue cultivators finished Xuanhe off. In the Taiyi Sect, Wen Xia learned that Xuanhe may have met with misfortune and grew too uneasy to continue pursuing her breakthrough.

• Li Qing empowered and detonated the Shattering Yuan Great Fire Seal, leaving True Person Xuanhe gravely wounded.
• Li Qing urged the rogue cultivators to attack True Person Xuanhe, and they swarmed him while Li Qing pursued and killed the fleeing Shangqing Sect elders.
• Li Qing collected several Storage Bags and departed, wary that Xuanhe's crushed Jade Pendant had summoned help from the Taiyi Sect.
• Wen Xia emerged from seclusion after sensing that Xuanhe had crushed her token, and told the Taiyi Sect's Supreme Elder that she feared he had met with misfortune.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing dealt with the Shangqing Sect’s forces while searching the ice plains for Ancestor Bingyun. A young man claiming to be the Pure Yang Physique confronted them and asked why they had come.

• The Shangqing Sect discovered that Ancestor Xuanhe and more than a dozen elders had died in the Great Desolation Region, and Sect Master Qingxuan ordered the other ancestors to investigate Xuanhe’s final memories.
• Li Qing rejoined Shen Ningbing on the far western ice plains, where they found that the Ice Origin True Explanation’s aura had ended.
• Li Qing suggested that Ancestor Bingyun might have gone to Moon Chasing Palace to seek help from True Lord Yue Xuan, but Shen Ningbing doubted it.
• A young man flew up to Li Qing and Shen Ningbing, declared himself the Pure Yang Physique, and said the people who had sought him were already dead.
• Li Qing warned the young man that others were searching for him, and the young man asked why Li Qing and Shen Ningbing had come to the ice plains.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing encountered True Person Zhiyang, who was seeking the killer of True Person Xuanhe, while they continued searching the icefield for Ancestor Bingyun. As Zhiyang’s reputation spread and Gui Fan challenged him, Zhiyang agreed to fight only if the Ghost Sword Sect promised to cease hostilities for a hundred years if he won.

• True Person Zhiyang questioned Li Qing about his purpose in the icefield and revealed that he was searching for the killer of True Person Xuanhe.
• Li Qing denied knowing anything about the killer, and Zhiyang described a lone cultivator who used the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame before leaving.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing concluded that Zhiyang was the Pure Yang Physique and continued searching the icefield for Ancestor Bingyun without finding her.
• News spread that the Pure Yang Physique had defeated several opponents, prompting Gui Fan of the Ghost Sword Sect to demand a fair battle.
• True Person Zhiyang accepted Gui Fan’s challenge on the condition that the Ghost Sword Sect cease hostilities for a hundred years if he won, leaving the Devil Dao sects to consider their response.

The Devil Dao sects tried to draw out the Pure Yang Physique, and Gui Fan accepted True Person Zhiyang’s challenge. Meanwhile, Li Qing and Shen Ningbing followed traces of True Person Bingyun to a deep fissure in the ice, where Shen Ningbing called for her master but heard no reply.

• Zhu Jiuyin and Rakshasa Demon Lord discussed finding the Pure Yang Physique before attacking the Taiyi Sect and the Free and Unfettered Sect, and decided to consult Gui Li.
• True Person Zhiyang warned that he would leave the Great Desolation Region if the devils continued searching for him, making the Devil Dao patriarchs fear he might return for revenge in the future.
• The Ghost Sword Sect announced that Gui Fan would accept the challenge, and Gui Fan vowed to sacrifice the Pure Yang Physique’s blood to his Demonic Sword.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing found unusual ice crystals left by someone cultivating the Ice Origin True Explanation and followed them across the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing reached a deep fissure where the trail ended, and Shen Ningbing called down for True Person Bingyun but received no answer.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing discovered an Underground Ice Palace deep beneath the ice and found Ancestor Bingyun transformed into an ice sculpture by a forbidden technique. After Li Qing encouraged Shen Ningbing to keep searching for a way to reverse it, she asked him to help her.

• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing descended more than two thousand meters through the frozen fissure and discovered a vast underground space.
• They entered the Underground Ice Palace and found an ice sculpture with Ancestor Bingyun's face.
• Shen Ningbing explained that Ancestor Bingyun had used a Forbidden Secret Technique to force out true essence, permanently turning her body into ice crystals until she became an ice sculpture.
• Li Qing stopped Shen Ningbing from rushing toward the sculpture until she explained what had happened, then allowed her to grieve beside her master.
• Li Qing encouraged Shen Ningbing to search across other regions and even the upper realm for a way to reverse the transformation.
• Shen Ningbing asked Li Qing to help her, and he agreed before examining the Underground Ice Palace.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing discovered a mysterious Underground Ice Palace, where a frigid aura froze Shen Ningbing’s Frost Jade Ice Butterfly. The butterfly then absorbed the palace’s cold energy and began advancing to the third tier.

• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing found an unknown ice palace beneath the earth, and Shen Ningbing said she sensed a summons connected to her Ice Dao cultivation.
• Shen Ningbing sent her Frost Jade Ice Butterfly into the palace to investigate while Li Qing warned that they should leave if danger arose.
• A surge of icy radiance froze the butterfly, but Shen Ningbing sensed that it was still alive.
• The frozen butterfly cracked free and absorbed the surrounding cold aura, prompting Li Qing to realize it was advancing.
• The butterfly’s aura rose to that of a third-tier Demonic Beast, and the temperature around Li Qing and Shen Ningbing dropped further.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing escaped the ice palace after the Frost Jade Ice Butterfly’s breakthrough awakened a terrifying presence, then headed toward Moon Chasing Palace seeking help for Ancestor Bingyun. They learned the palace had become the gathering place for the new Saintess’s celebration and the coming duel between Gui Fan and the Pure Yang Physique.

• The Frost Jade Ice Butterfly advanced to the third rank, awakening a powerful presence beneath the ice palace, and Li Qing led Shen Ningbing and the butterfly to safety.
• After fleeing far south, Li Qing and Shen Ningbing agreed not to reveal the ice palace and decided to visit Moon Chasing Palace for help with Ancestor Bingyun’s condition.
• Li Qing questioned a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator about the many travelers heading toward Moon Chasing Palace.
• The rogue cultivator explained that Gui Fan had accepted True Person Zhiyang’s challenge, and both sides chose Moon Chasing Palace as the duel’s venue.
• Moon Chasing Palace’s selection of a new Saintess coincided with the planned duel, drawing cultivators from across the Great Desolation Region.

Cultivators gathered at Moon Chasing Palace ahead of the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering, where the new Holy Maiden would be revealed. Li Qing and Shen Ningbing arrived to seek an audience with Yue Xuan and were welcomed into the palace, where a female cultivator asked why they had come.

• Rogue cultivators outside Moon Chasing Palace discussed the palace's new Holy Maiden and awaited the Grand Gathering.
• Gui Fan of the Ghost Sword Sect arrived early to congratulate the palace and entered along a path of moonlight.
• Powerful cultivators and invited guests arrived over the following days.
• With three days left before the gathering, Li Qing and Shen Ningbing arrived, and Yue Xuan invited them into the palace.
• A female cultivator greeted Li Qing and Shen Ningbing and asked their purpose, offering to arrange their attendance at the Grand Gathering.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing met True Lord Yue Xuan to ask for help with Ancestor Bingyun, whose body had turned to ice crystal after using a forbidden technique. Yue Xuan could not reverse the condition but said Bingyun’s soul remained preserved, and Li Qing ended by asking her to help rebuild Lingyun Sect.

• Li Qing invoked the name of the Sky Swallowing Ancestor to gain an audience with Yue Xuan, and he and Shen Ningbing were welcomed into Moon Chasing Palace.
• A Moon Chasing Palace cultivator led Li Qing and Shen Ningbing to Yue Xuan, who recognized Li Qing from their meeting in Ancient Imperial City.
• Shen Ningbing presented Ancestor Bingyun’s ice-crystal body and begged Yue Xuan to save her.
• Yue Xuan explained that she could not undo the effects of the Ice Origin True Explanation’s forbidden technique, but Bingyun’s consciousness and soul remained frozen and preserved.
• Shen Ningbing regained hope after Yue Xuan said a way to reverse the condition might exist, and Li Qing asked Yue Xuan to help rebuild Lingyun Sect.

Li Qing failed to persuade True Lord Yue Xuan to help rebuild the Lingyun Sect, but she gave him a White Jade Plate capable of unleashing two attacks as powerful as her own. As the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering began, the Rakshasa Demon Lord arrived and challenged the Pure Yang Physique, who soon approached Moon Chasing Palace on a Green Ox.

• True Lord Yue Xuan explained why Moon Chasing Palace could not intervene in the Lingyun Sect’s affairs, citing its longstanding neutrality.
• True Lord Yue Xuan gave Li Qing a White Jade Plate containing enough power for two attacks comparable to her own.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing took up temporary residence on a spirit peak and waited for the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering.
• Cultivators and major figures from the righteous and demonic paths gathered at Moon Chasing Palace as the grand gathering approached.
• The Rakshasa Demon Lord arrived, asked whether the Pure Yang Physique had come, and soon saw an elderly man approach on a Green Ox.

As the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering approached, the righteous and demonic paths kept their truce under the Moon Chasing Palace’s watch, while the Rakshasa Demon Lord confirmed that the Pure Yang Physique remained the demonic path’s target. Li Qing learned how the gathering’s spiritual rewards came from Moonlit Ridge, a forbidden land whose treasures were said to carry ill omen.

• The Rakshasa Demon Lord taunted Grand Supreme Elder Xuan about True Lord Chi Yuan’s injuries, and Xuan said his junior brother was recovering before confirming that the Pure Yang Physique had arrived.
• The Rakshasa Demon Lord declared that the decisive battle would begin after the gathering, and the Moon Chasing Palace invited him and Grand Supreme Elder Xuan inside.
• Tensions flared during the days before the gathering, including a demonic cultivator’s attempt to investigate the Pure Yang Physique, but the Moon Chasing Palace suppressed the incident.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing left their cave abodes for the gathering, where Li Qing encountered Venerable Xuan Gu and asked him to explain its proceedings.
• Venerable Xuan Gu explained that the Palace Master would draw moon energy from Moonlit Ridge to baptize the Saintess, bringing spiritual objects that attendees could receive, but warned that Moonlit Ridge was a deadly forbidden land and its treasures carried ill omen.

Li Qing learned that Moonlit Ridge was a perilous forbidden land linked to Moon Chasing Palace and attended the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering. When the palace’s Saintess appeared, he recognized her as someone he knew.

• Venerable Xuan Gu told Li Qing that Moonlit Ridge was an ancient burial pit filled with sinister Great Yin power, where even Core Formation cultivators could die, though it held valuable treasures.
• Li Qing and Venerable Xuan Gu arrived at the gathering and saw three ancient Moon Crown Trees, which True Lord Yue Xuan said were only a little over five thousand years old.
• True Lord Yue Xuan began the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering as Moon Chasing Palace disciples brought forth the Moon Stone and welcomed the Saintess.
• The Saintess flew out from the main hall, and Li Qing recognized her.

Li Qing recognized the Moon Chasing Palace holy maiden as Liu Hanyue, now known as Yue Han, at the start of the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering. As the gathering began drawing spiritual objects from Moonlit Ridge, cultivators fought over the first arrival, a damaged ancient Jade Pendant claimed by True Person Mu Long.

• Li Qing recognized the holy maiden as Liu Hanyue, and Shen Ningbing asked him whether he knew her.
• Gui Fan questioned Yue Han about her romantic prospects and boasted that he would kill True Person Zhiyang, but True Lord Yue Xuan stopped him and a Taiyi Sect elder from fighting.
• True Lord Yue Xuan activated the Moon Stone, sending a Moonlight Essence Pillar to draw spiritual objects from Moonlit Ridge.
• The first spiritual object arrived, and Gui Fan and other cultivators competed to seize it.
• True Person Mu Long obtained the object, a damaged Jade Pendant engraved with a strange demonic beast, and a cultivator offered Spirit Medicine Seeds for it.

Li Qing seized a rusted bronze blade fragment from the moonlight after True Person Zhiyang’s Pure Yang power triggered a violent backlash that injured him. The gathering’s attention shifted to Zhiyang as Gui Fan watched for a chance to kill him.

• True Person Mu Long kept the jade pendant he had seized, while two more spirit items appeared in the moonlight.
• Gui Fan clashed with the Taiyi Sect cultivator who obstructed him, and Li Qing used the Nether Cold Fire to reach for the second spirit item.
• True Person Zhiyang’s Pure Yang power melted Li Qing’s Nether Cold Fire, but touching the moonlight caused a surge of Profound Yin Energy that injured Zhiyang.
• Li Qing used the Nether Cold Fire to retrieve a rusted bronze blade fragment, noticed his lifespan had fallen by two years, and concealed the fragment after showing it to the crowd.
• The Taiyi Sect cultivator surnamed Meng tried to take the injured Zhiyang away, while Gui Fan eyed him with intent to kill.

Li Qing realized that Moonlit Ridge’s spiritual treasures could consume lifespan, then watched four more treasures find owners. Moon Chasing Palace offered five cultivation-enhancing pills to buy back a Moon Crown Fruit pit, leaving True Person Baili to consider the exchange.

• Gui Fan ignored Meng Qing’s warning and watched the Pure Yang Physique until Meng Qing took True Person Zhiyang away.
• Li Qing recalled that claiming a treasure had cost him lifespan and connected the loss to Moonlit Ridge’s ominousness.
• True Person Fu Xuan claimed amber containing blood and bone fragments, dismissing fears that it was ominous.
• True Person Mu Long offered spirit pills for True Person Baili’s Moon Crown Fruit pit, but Moon Chasing Palace invoked its priority to repurchase it.
• A Moon Chasing Palace cultivator offered Baili five spirit pills for the pit, surpassing Mu Long’s offer.

At the Moon Chasing Grand Gathering, the Moon Chasing Palace traded valuable pills and spirit liquid for treasures while Li Qing helped ease pressure on Zhao Tianxiong. After Liu Hanyue completed her baptism, she reunited with Li Qing, leaving him curious about how she became the Holy Maiden and what happened to the Lingyun Sect members who fled with her.

• True Person Baili accepted five Core Formation-advancing spirit pills from the Moon Chasing Palace for the Moon Crown Fruit pit.
• Zhao Tianxiong agreed to trade his Ghost Eye Snail to the Moon Chasing Palace for half a portion of Purple Mansion Spirit Liquid, and Li Qing spoke up to defuse the other cultivators' displeasure.
• Li Qing, Shen Ningbing, and Gui Fan obtained spirit treasures from the moonlight river, while an elderly cultivator found a porcelain bottle of ancient pills and declined to open it.
• Liu Hanyue completed her baptism, which strengthened her spiritual sense and physique, and the moonlight river flowed into her as the Moon Stone sank back into the earth.
• Liu Hanyue recognized Li Qing and greeted him, and the two discussed how far each had advanced since their earlier meeting.
• Li Qing wondered how Liu Hanyue had become the Holy Maiden and what had happened to the Lingyun Sect members who fled with her.

At Moon Chasing Palace’s banquet, Li Qing learned that the Giant Spirit Boat survivors had been scattered far away and gained Liu Hanyue’s promise to help search for the remaining Lingyun Sect members. The banquet was interrupted when True Lord Tai Xuan and the Rakshasa Demon Lord released colliding auras, raising the prospect of a fight.

• Li Qing praised the Ghost Eye Snail and spoke with Liu Hanyue about rebuilding the Lingyun Sect.
• Liu Hanyue told Li Qing that the Giant Spirit Boat had traveled southeast and that she had escaped after a Third-tier Crimson Fire Fox attacked the group.
• Li Qing said he planned to investigate Shangqing Sect and later search for the Lingyun Sect survivors before making any move against it.
• Liu Hanyue agreed to use Moon Chasing Palace’s strength to search for survivors and gave Li Qing a crescent jade pendant so he could contact her.
• True Lord Tai Xuan and the Rakshasa Demon Lord released colliding auras, and the banquet guests turned toward them.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing went to witness True Lord Tai Xuan and Rakshasa Demon Lord’s confrontation, which Palace Mistress Yue Xuan stopped with Moon Chasing Palace’s protective formation. The two departed after agreeing to settle matters in three days, leaving the cultivators anticipating the decisive duel between the Pure Yang Physique and Ghost Sword Sect’s young master.

• Liu Hanyue left to notify her Palace Mistress while Li Qing and Shen Ningbing discussed their hopes of rebuilding Lingyun Sect and finding their former fellow disciples.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing headed toward the disturbance after he concluded that the leaders would not fight on Moon Chasing Palace’s grounds.
• True Lord Tai Xuan confronted Rakshasa Demon Lord over his interest in the Pure Yang Physique’s injuries, and the two released their powerful auras.
• Palace Mistress Yue Xuan activated Moon Chasing Palace’s Moon-Shocking formation and ordered True Lord Tai Xuan and Rakshasa Demon Lord to stop.
• Rakshasa Demon Lord and True Lord Tai Xuan withdrew, while the gathered cultivators looked forward to the decisive battle in three days.

Li Qing lent Gui Fan more Nether Cold Fire in exchange for three Essence Augmentation Pills before Gui Fan faced True Person Zhiyang in the decisive battle. Under Moon Chasing Palace’s Astonishing Moon Formation, the duel began with Zhiyang launching a dragon of Pure Yang power at Gui Fan.

• Gui Fan visited Li Qing to borrow Nether Cold Fire for his battle against True Person Zhiyang, and Li Qing traded the fire for three Essence Augmentation Pills.
• Li Qing filled Gui Fan’s purple-gold gourd with Nether Cold Fire and wondered whether Gui Fan had made enough preparations for the fight.
• Three days later, Moon Chasing Palace activated the Astonishing Moon Formation, sealing off the battlefield and suppressing the area.
• Gui Fan and True Person Zhiyang confronted each other before the gathered cultivators, while Palace Mistress Yue Xuan promised that no outsider would interfere.
• True Person Zhiyang opened the battle with a Five-clawed Golden Dragon made of Pure Yang power, and Gui Fan drew his greatsword and called out the Demon Slaying Strike.

True Person Zhiyang defeated Gui Fan’s incarnation and countered his Thousand-Year Yin Corpse with Pure Yang power. As Zhiyang prepared to finish the fight with his golden saber, Gui Fan detonated the corpse.

• True Person Zhiyang immobilized Gui Fan with golden light, and the Golden Dragon smashed apart what appeared to be his true body.
• Gui Fan reappeared and revealed that Zhiyang had destroyed only one of his incarnations.
• Gui Fan summoned a Thousand-Year Yin Corpse, but Zhiyang damaged it with his Pure Yang essence blood and a palm strike.
• Gui Fan sent the battered corpse after Zhiyang again, and Zhiyang drew his golden saber to destroy it.
• The Thousand-Year Yin Corpse exploded just as Zhiyang prepared to strike.

True Person Zhiyang and Gui Fan exchanged powerful attacks, with Zhiyang enduring a corpse explosion and countering Gui Fan’s weapons with his Golden Sun Saber and a Taiqing Demon Suppressing Talisman. As Gui Fan kept evading the talisman’s seal, Li Qing suspected that his cautious fighting concealed another scheme.

• Gui Fan detonated a Thousand-Year Yin Corpse, but True Person Zhiyang purified the corpse qi that penetrated his body and charged back at him.
• True Person Zhiyang’s Golden Sun Saber clashed with Gui Fan’s Demon Origin Sword, damaging the sword and forcing Gui Fan to take the fight more seriously.
• Gui Fan released Nether Cold Fire from a purple-gold gourd, and Zhiyang retreated while protecting himself with Pure Yang Energy.
• True Person Zhiyang activated a Taiqing Demon Suppressing Talisman, dispersing the Nether Cold Fire and sending a clear-light seal after Gui Fan.
• As Gui Fan evaded the seal and Zhiyang mocked him, Li Qing recognized that Gui Fan’s timid behavior was unlike his usual fighting style and suspected a hidden plan.