Recaps

Lu Jiu witnessed the Life Controller Society’s Old Women unleash the Water Tigers, while Li Yan and his companions fought their way into a secret chamber and sealed the monsters behind them. Inside, they found ranks of terracotta warriors resembling the Qin Emperor Terracotta Army.

• The Old Woman explained that she intended to free the ancient Water Tiger and used jade tablets and a Nuo Dance to awaken the creatures in the pond.
• Lu San led Li Yan and the others to a cavern, where Water Tigers attacked and an explosion sealed their entrance.
• Bai Huan’s family used flute music to suppress the Water Tigers while Wu Ba and Sha LiFei opened a secret chamber with explosives.
• Li Yan fought off the Water Tigers with his chains, blade, and thunder techniques, then entered the chamber and helped seal the passage.
• Li Yan and his companions found rows of terracotta warriors armed with halberds inside the chamber.

Li Yan and the others escaped through the Terracotta Army formation and discovered that the true Goddess Palace lay beneath a sealed Stone Platform. After Li Yan broke the seal, they fled through an underground waterway while the Goddess manifested on Goddess Peak, and a deadly miasma began pursuing them.

• Wang Dao Xuan explained that the Terracotta Army contained Innate Geng Metal Qi, and Li Yan moved the figures aside so the group could cross while Water Tigers were ground apart behind them.
• The group reached a dead-end grotto, where Li Yan found a letter and alchemy bottles beside a skeleton; Wang Dao Xuan revealed that the Stone Platform sealed the true Goddess Palace and covered a waterway to the Yangtze River.
• Li Yan shattered the Stone Platform, unleashing wind and rain from the cavern and causing a storm to gather over Goddess Peak.
• Fast Boat Zhang waited aboard his ship as officials inspected vessels on the river, while Lu Jiu blasted open the cave entrance and the Three Sisters of the Life Controller Society entered.
• One of the Three Sisters was shredded by the Terracotta Army's remaining Geng Metal Qi, and the escaped demonic miasma consumed the other two after the formation's power ran out.
• Li Yan used Profound Water Escape to bring the group out through the waterway, then ordered Fast Boat Zhang to collect the others and sail toward Shu.

Li Yan and his companions escorted the Bai family out of Wushan while Wang Dao Xuan revealed that ancient alchemists Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng had schemed to capture the Nine Cauldrons. After destroying the record and passing through Qutang Pass into Shu, the group approached White Emperor City, where rival parties were fighting over a temple.

• Wang Dao Xuan divined that Zhao Yun and Xing Yu were free of their curse, easing Bai Huan’s worries.
• Fast Boat Zhang warned Li Yan that the Salt Gang might ambush them at Kui Gate, while Lu San’s hawk found no attackers along the cliffs.
• Wang Dao Xuan told Li Yan that Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng had sought the Nine Cauldrons and explained their links to Goddess Palace and the Lord of the Clouds Divine Gate.
• Li Yan ordered Wang Dao Xuan to destroy the Bamboo Strips and watch for news of Lu Sheng, and Wang Dao Xuan swore to hunt him down.
• The group passed through Qutang Pass using Li Yan’s credentials and continued toward Qingcheng Mountain with the Bai family.
• At White Emperor City, Fast Boat Zhang’s disciple reported that two groups were fighting over a temple.

Li Yan and his companions broke through a Salt Gang blockade at Kuimen, while Lu Jiu and Wang MengSheng plotted to trap them in Wanzhou and seize the divine qi they sought. After passing Fengjie, Li Yan encountered Tian Chiliarch again as the ship approached Wanzhou.

• Li Yan learned that the fighting at White Emperor City concerned a shrine dispute, but Lu Jiu’s Salt Gang boats surrounded his ship and demanded he surrender the girls traveling with him.
• Li Yan refused Lu Jiu’s offer and used the Cloud Thunder Divine Drum to stun the Salt Gang men and overturn the boats blocking their way.
• Lu Jiu consulted Wang MengSheng and the Palace Dress Woman, who revealed that the King of Shu wanted the girls’ divine qi to search for the Elixir of Immortality; Wang MengSheng proposed trapping Li Yan’s group in Wanzhou and making it his burial ground.
• Fast Boat Zhang told Li Yan they had passed Fengjie and would reach Wanzhou soon, then a pursuing boat arrived with Tian Chiliarch aboard.

Li Yan learned that Zhao Changsheng had last appeared at the Shu King Residence and that the Sichuan Salt Gang was seeking the ancient Wu Xian Kingdom’s Elixir of Immortality. At the crowded Wan County wharf, he suspected the salt gang had blocked the river and stopped when he heard Cui Song mention the Gray-robed Mad Monk.

• Tian Chiliarch told Li Yan that Zhao Changsheng’s trail led to the Shu King Residence and linked the Sichuan Salt Gang’s plans in Wuxi to the search for the Elixir of Immortality.
• Tian Chiliarch gave Li Yan a bronze token for contacting his hidden agents in the salt gang, then departed.
• Li Yan and his companions reached Wan County and learned that river bandits had overturned merchant boats to block the waterway.
• Li Yan detected traces of Yin Energy among people at the wharf and suspected the salt gang had arranged trouble there.
• Li Yan recognized a young woman’s Serpent Form steps as Emei’s Serpent Form Fist.
• Li Yan stopped listening to Cui Song when he heard that Cui had met the Gray-robed Mad Monk, a disciple of Xing He Pu.

Li Yan heard Cui Song’s account of a Gray-robed Mad Monk’s warning about a Drought Demon beneath Wan Prefecture Tiansheng City, then agreed to help him search for it while preparing for a possible Salt Gang ambush. The three men reached a ruined mountaintop across the river, where they began looking for the demon.

• A Chengdu merchant recounted his family’s deadly encounter with the Gray Monk, and Cui Song revealed that the monk had warned him a Drought Demon would cause three years of drought in Eastern Sichuan.
• Li Yan introduced himself to Cui Song and agreed to help locate the Drought Demon, while Cui Song promised to share everything he knew if they found nothing.
• The Chengdu merchant joined them, and Li Yan suspected he might be a Salt Gang spy, so he returned to his ship and arranged a defense before leaving with Cui Song.
• Cui Song took Li Yan and the merchant across the river toward the mountain, while his junior sister stayed behind on the boat.
• The three men climbed to a misty mountaintop and found ruins among the wild grass, with exposed skeletons and rusted arrowheads nearby.

Li Yan and Cui Song investigated an Ancient Battlefield, where they found a Drought Demon that an unknown expert had destroyed with a silver pellet. After the mysterious Chengdu merchant disappeared, Li Yan dreamed of a three-eyed divine general, and the party reached Fengdu City.

• Li Yan and Cui Song searched the abandoned Heavenly Born City, where battlefield spirits and Yin energy gathered.
• The Chengdu merchant secretly fired a silent silver pellet into the fog and left, while Li Yan and Cui Song found and destroyed the Drought Demon's corpse-raising ground.
• Li Yan recognized that an unknown expert had used the pellet to destroy the Drought Demon before it could fully form, and he and Cui Song discovered the merchant had vanished.
• Cui Song recounted a tale about the Gray-robed Mad Monk told by Song Tiezui, and Li Yan later dreamed of a three-eyed general before waking with the silver pellet in hand.
• After two days without a Salt Gang attack, Li Yan and the others continued upriver and reached Fengdu City at dusk.

Li Yan encountered the Living Underworld Messengers’ rules in Fengdu and accepted a test requiring him to spend a night on the famous mountain. After Old Woman Bai Huan secured protection for the group with Wei Wuchang’s token, Li Yan left them in Fengdu and sailed toward the mountain, asking the old man about Yin Changsheng.

• Li Yan’s Gou Document turned cold when an old man with a Ghost Eye approached aboard a small boat and criticized Li Yan for breaking the Living Underworld Messengers’ rules at Wushan.
• The old man told Li Yan he could join the organization by spending a night on the famous mountain, but leaving would mean losing its protection.
• Old Woman Bai Huan used a token from Wei Wuchang to secure the group’s protection in Fengdu, then explained that she planned to bring her disciples to Qingcheng Mountain under the Queen Mother Hall.
• Li Yan left Wang Dao Xuan and the others at Nostalgia Tower and boarded the old man’s boat for the North Bank and Ghost Gate Pass.
• On the boat, Li Yan saw the sickly Ku WaZi in the cabin and asked the hostile old man whether he knew Yin Changsheng.

Li Yan entered Famous Mountain to undergo the Yellow Springs Road trial after learning about Yin Changsheng and the Living Underworld Messengers. He reached the fog-shrouded path beyond the Reception Hall, where the Heng Ha Two Generals appeared and the trial proved different from what he had been told.

• An old man explained that Famous Mountain was tied to Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping, then revealed that the Living Underworld Messengers belonged to the Yellow Springs and asked Li Yan to leave Fengdu after the night’s events.
• The old man admitted that he had once practiced ghost arts and that his grandson’s weak soul and Ghost Qi came from his son’s cultivation; Li Yan promised to leave quickly and entered the mountain.
• A black-robed man told Li Yan to complete the Yellow Springs Road trial, warned him not to stray from the path or look back, and reacted with surprise when Li Yan said he cultivated the Luo Feng Scripture.
• Li Yan paid his respects at Fengdu Hall and passed through the empty Reception Hall into thick fog.
• The Heng Ha Two Generals appeared in the fog and roared at Li Yan, who realized the trial differed from the black-robed man’s account.

Li Yan struggled through Fengdu’s supernatural mountain path, overcoming divine trials and discovering that the Five Directions Fengdu Banner could protect him from the Netherworld Supervising Censor. As he continued toward the mountain’s higher halls, a terrifying presence also reached Fengdu from the river below.

• Li Yan resisted the Heng Ha Two Generals’ cries by using the Great Cloud Thunder Sound, and the struggle helped him grasp martial momentum.
• After passing Ghost Gate Pass, Li Yan encountered bloodied visions and chaotic Buddhist and Taoist sounds along the Yin Yang Boundary.
• At Nine Pythons Hall, the Soul Hooking Chain turned cold until the Five Directions Fengdu Banner’s power drove off the Netherworld Supervising Censor’s influence.
• Li Yan blasted apart Wang Lingguan’s incense-powered attack with heavenly thunder and hurried onward toward the higher divine halls.
• A monster formed from the remnant soul of the Goddess of Mount Wu’s priestess and a demonic aberration immobilized the old man and his disciples on their boat before disappearing.
• The old man sent word that an evil demon had entered Fengdu as Li Yan faced another palace and smelled an overwhelming stench of blood.

Li Yan endured a succession of supernatural trials on the famous mountain, then encountered Yin Changsheng’s phantom and recovered two jade pieces that fitted into the Goudie. After learning a powerful demon had attacked Fengdu City, he returned to Fengdu Wharf and recognized the demonic miasma from beneath Goddess Peak.

• Li Yan avoided the bloody shortcut at Blood River Hall, resisted the Child-Giving Hall’s incense, and passed through the illusions at Thousand Hands Hall.
• Li Yan endured the trials at Ox King Hall, Wealth Deity Hall, Three Officials Hall, and Ten Kings Hall, then ignored the voices tempting him into the Yellow Springs.
• Li Yan passed the remaining halls and reached the Looking-Home Platform, where he saw Yin Changsheng’s phantom speak of the Great Dharma Realm before it vanished and left two jade carvings.
• Li Yan fitted the jade carvings into the Goudie and fled after a Daoist mistook him for a thief.
• A Daoist told Li Yan that a powerful demon had attacked Fengdu City and killed people at the dock, so Li Yan returned to Fengdu Wharf by ferry.
• Li Yan recognized the demonic miasma from the cave beneath Goddess Peak as he stepped off the boat.

Li Yan’s group arrived in Fengdu and learned that the Water Tiger’s demonic calamity had followed them, while the Salt Gang and local officials seemed to be setting a trap for them. They decided to wait for Yellow Springs to investigate the crisis and planned to disguise themselves as a WuYang Divine Opera troupe to travel overland to Chengdu.

• At the dock, Li Yan saw corpses drained and shriveled by the Water Tiger’s demonic calamity, and the yamen runners carried them into Fengdu despite the crowd’s protests.
• Li Yan told his companions about the mountain, and Wang Dao Xuan and Bai Huan concluded that the Water Tiger’s calamity had changed and spread beyond its usual territory.
• Centurion Liu Gan ordered Li Yan’s group not to leave Fengdu, and Li Yan and Sha LiFei suspected the Salt Gang had arranged the restriction as a trap.
• Meng ChangGui revealed that Liu Gan had been bought off by the Salt Gang, warned Li Yan not to confront it, and said Yellow Springs would handle the calamity and investigate Azure Ox Temple.
• Sha LiFei proposed traveling to Chengdu by land in disguise, and Bai Huan suggested they pose as a WuYang Divine Opera troupe wearing Nuo masks.
• Li Yan agreed to the plan, and Fast Boat Zhang agreed to sell the boat when they reached the Chongqing docks.

Li Yan learned that his upgraded tally could detect Yin Criminals and other tallies over a much greater distance, while the Salt Gang and Azure Ox Temple closed in on his group in Fengdu. Chongxu Zi left the inn after threatening to kill anyone who tried to leave, and Li Yan recognized his attack as an Emei martial art.

• Li Yan used his upgraded tally to detect that someone from the Yellow Springs was still nearby, then spotted two men watching the inn.
• Rat One relayed the Salt Gang spies’ conversation to Li Yan, who decided to wait and learn what they wanted before striking back.
• Liu Gan warned Magistrate Guo Zhengshan to handle the matter impartially while denying any connection to the Salt Gang or the King’s Residence.
• Chongxu Zi and the Azure Ox Temple Taoists examined the corpses, detected a demonic omen, and planned a ritual to suppress it that night.
• Chongxu Zi went to Nostalgia Tower Inn, cut a deep scar into the street, and threatened to kill anyone who left before he returned; Li Yan identified his technique as Emei’s Heavenly Star Finger Technique.

Li Yan investigated the Old Taoist Chongxu’s ritual and learned that the Salt Gang was using the conflict to force the Yellow Springs Organization to reveal itself. After questioning two hired spies, he discovered that Lu Jiu was acting under orders from a purple-faced old man and that the gang was also searching for Ma SanTong.

• Li Yan told Sha LiFei to avoid confronting the Old Taoist Chongxu until they understood the Salt Gang’s scheme, then used an escape art to investigate.
• Old Taoist Chongxu began a riverbank ritual to summon soldiers and capture the demons, while Li Yan secretly watched from the riverside.
• Meng ChangGui told Li Yan that Chongxu’s anger stemmed from the Yellow Springs Organization executing his master and that Wei Wuchang was returning.
• Li Yan broke into a warehouse and subdued Guo QianShan and Iron Hand Chen, two hired spies assisting Lu Jiu.
• Guo QianShan told Li Yan that Lu Jiu answered to a purple-faced old man near Azure Ox Temple and that the Salt Gang was watching for a child carrying a fan, a gourd, and a sack.
• Li Yan realized that the child’s description matched Ma SanTong, one of the Seventy-Two Demon Lords.

Li Yan learned that Ma SanTong’s plague-tainted techniques might be connected to the Azure Ox Temple, while the temple’s Chongxu Zi destroyed the river demon with summoned Lu Soldiers. Chongxu Zi then brought Li Yan and the others back to the temple, where Li Yan’s tally suddenly heated, signaling a new mission.

• Li Yan recognized Ma SanTong’s abilities and let the two men from the inn leave; he and his companions resolved to expose the Salt Gang and its allies.
• At the river, the demon overwhelmed Chongxu Zi’s ritual, but Chongxu Zi used ancient bamboo strips to summon Lu Soldiers that destroyed it with thunderfire.
• Li Yan warned Chongxu Zi that the Salt Gang was plotting against the Azure Ox Temple and asked about a red child carrying three treasures; Chongxu Zi reacted with alarm and led them back to the mountain.
• Chongxu Zi found the Azure Ox Temple apparently peaceful, but Li Yan’s hook-shaped tally grew hot, indicating that a mission had been issued.

Li Yan used the Goulian to identify Ma SanTong’s escaped demonic energy and uncover clues about a missing magical artifact, then helped Chongxu Zi investigate suspicious events at Azure Ox Temple. Following the hook token into the forest, they found Wu FaLuo’s corpse hidden inside a tree.

• Li Yan discovered that the Goulian’s vision had improved, examined the Owl Zuns and two wells, and traced escaped demonic energy to Ma SanTong and a stolen Qi Bag.
• Chongxu Zi welcomed Li Yan’s group into Azure Ox Temple, then admitted that Yuan Qing had acted suspiciously and that the Human Skin Pouch had vanished from the temple.
• Chongxu Zi explained that the Plague Taoist Jianghuai’s Human Skin Pouch had been split and suppressed in two places, and he asked Li Yan’s group to investigate in exchange for locations of Heaven’s Spiritual Treasures.
• Li Yan led the group east from the temple, following the hook token through the Medicine Field and into a dense forest.
• Li Yan cut open a hollow tree and revealed the decomposed corpse of Wu FaLuo, whom the group had captured in Shennongjia.

Li Yan and Chongxu Zi traced the deadly poisonous miasma to a hidden valley, where they discovered that Kumu and the Azure Ox Temple Abbot were behind the scheme. After entering the valley to investigate, they encountered several loose immortals from Wushan at an ancient cave.

• Li Yan and Chongxu Zi found Yuan Qing guarding the mountain path, and Chongxu Zi learned that his senior brother had fallen into demonic cultivation before striking Yuan Qing unconscious.
• The group found villagers and Salt Gang members dead or poisoned near the valley, and Long Yan'er made Gu Severing Pills that let them endure the miasma for an hour.
• Chongxu Zi left Lingfeng Zi outside with the Bamboo Strips, while Li Yan and the others took the pills and entered the fog-shrouded valley.
• Li Yan followed the Gou Die through the valley and shot the maddened Lu Jiu when he charged at the group.
• Li Yan led the group to an ancient cave, where Chongxu Zi spotted three loose immortals from Wushan emerging above the entrance.

Li Yan and his companions confronted Kumu, who had been corrupted by Ma SanTong’s demonic energy, and Li Yan killed him with the Soul Hooking Chain and Yang Thunder. They entered the cavern to find Ma SanTong’s true body, where ancient murals led Li Yan to suspect the Azure Ox Temple Abbot planned to consume demons and take their place.

• Li Yan drove off three Mount Wu Loose Immortals, while Wang MengSheng argued with his companions and revealed his plan to seize a treasure from the Azure Ox Temple Abbot.
• Kumu emerged from the cavern, warned Li Yan and the others to leave, and attacked Chongxu Zi after a disciple tried to stab him from behind.
• Li Yan and Chongxu Zi fought Kumu; Li Yan caught him with the Soul Hooking Chain and killed him with Yang Thunder and the Severing Dust Blade.
• Kumu’s scattered demonic energy possessed a Bai family disciple, but Long Yan'er and Chongxu Zi helped repel it; Li Yan explained that Ma SanTong’s true body remained inside a human-skin Qi Bag.
• Li Yan led the group into the cavern, where they found murals depicting Ancient Sorcery, and he began to suspect the Azure Ox Temple Abbot intended to consume demons and take their place.

Li Yan and Chongxu Zi found the Azure Ox Temple Abbot in an ancient Blessed Grotto-Heaven and discovered that Ma SanTong had corrupted him. Li Yan subdued the Abbot and helped stop Ma SanTong’s escape, but Wang MengSheng and another Wushan Loose Immortal arrived and threatened Li Yan’s companions.

• Li Yan led Chongxu Zi and the others through the fog, where an invisible creature killed a young Taoist before they reached a Stone Cauldron in a hidden Blessed Grotto-Heaven.
• The Azure Ox Temple Abbot emerged from the cauldron and claimed he had refined Ma SanTong’s demonic qi, but Li Yan exposed that the Abbot’s body had been turned into a puppet.
• The Abbot attacked Li Yan, who endured his strikes and used the Soul Hooking Chain to suppress him and send his soul to the netherworld.
• Ma SanTong’s Human Skin Pouch tried to seize the Abbot’s corpse, while the demon possessed several people; Long Yan’er restrained the corpse with her leather drum as Li Yan captured the demon.
• Long Yan’er collapsed after Ma SanTong was subdued, and Wang MengSheng and the Palace Dress Woman entered the cave and threatened Li Yan’s companions.

Li Yan confronted Wang MengSheng and the Sacred Maiden of the Incense Smelling Sect, who relied on the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl and her immobilizing spell to overpower him. After the Stone Cauldron strengthened his Great Luo Dharma Body and restored his ability to summon Yin Soldiers, Li Yan attacked the Two Immortals of Mount Wu and struck down Wang MengSheng, leaving them swallowed by darkness.

• Wang MengSheng demanded that Li Yan surrender the Soul Hook, while the Sacred Maiden of the Incense Smelling Sect immobilized the people in the room with her Worship Buddha Incense Offering Spell.
• Li Yan recovered from the spell and summoned Yin Soldiers, but Wang MengSheng struck him and shielded himself with the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl.
• Li Yan's Great Luo Dharma Body absorbed the Stone Cauldron's Spiritual Charm, healing its cracks and allowing him to sense and summon the Yin Soldiers again.
• Li Yan used lightning from the Soul Hooking Chains to charge the Two Immortals of Mount Wu and break through their defenses.
• Li Yan severed Wang MengSheng's right hand, which held the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, and the Yin Soldiers swallowed Wang MengSheng and the Sacred Maiden of the Incense Smelling Sect in darkness.

Li Yan’s group defeated the One-Eyed Taoist with help from Meng ChangGui, but the Salt Gang and Shu King Residence moved to suppress the affair and recover the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl. After Yu Longzi rescued the group, Li Yan decided to keep the pearl and prepare to leave under warning that Shu was full of hidden dangers.

• The One-Eyed Taoist unleashed the Soul Severing Technique, but Meng ChangGui arrived and killed him with the Underworld’s power.
• Meng ChangGui warned that the Salt Gang, the Shu King Residence, and a naval force had arrived in Fengdu.
• At the Yi Divination Sect, Cheng YuanXing forced the Shu King Residence’s eunuch to soften his demands, while Chongxu Zi kept the blame on the dead Mount Wu Loose Immortal.
• Cui Song learned that the Yi Divination Sect would not openly intervene and sent Li Yan a warning to leave at once.
• Li Yan’s group received the letter in their valley while their boat remained detained, and Yu Longzi revealed that he had secretly rescued their people and belongings.
• Li Yan refused to surrender the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, and Yu Longzi warned the group to be cautious as they traveled through Shu.

Li Yan and his companions left Fuling for Chongqing Prefecture, where they avoided bandits and prepared to travel disguised as a Yang Opera Troupe. The group reached a mountain ridge at night and saw a fire burning across the way.

• Li Yan gave Fast Boat Zhang silver and a copy of Essentials of Tong Xuan before they parted, and Fast Boat Zhang decided to settle in Xiangyang.
• A caravan led by Master Lu was ambushed on the Lychee Ancient Road, but Sha LiFei and Wu Ba killed the bandits and asked the merchants for directions to Chongqing Prefecture.
• Li Yan's group learned that local factions were fighting and chose to disguise themselves as a Yang Opera Troupe, using costumes, cloaks, and Nuo masks to conceal their identities.
• Li Yan learned from Old Woman Bai Huan that Long Yan'er might never recover because her Natal Gu had been damaged.
• Wang Dao Xuan spotted flames blazing on a mountainside as the group reached a ridge at night.

Li Yan and his companions entered a Lolo village, helped its people resist a former Tusi’s attack, and then continued their journey. Two days later, they reached Chongqing Prefecture, where Sha LiFei recognized Chaotian Gate as a major wharf.

• Long Yan'er explained Lolo customs as Li Yan’s group approached the village, where a Su Ni examined them and welcomed them as guests.
• The villagers hosted Li Yan’s group during a fire ritual, and Lu San noticed that someone was driving wild animals down from the mountain.
• After the Su Ni’s ritual revealed an attack, villagers carried in a man injured by Black Sand Palm, and Li Yan treated him with Hidden Strength and a healing pill.
• The white-haired Old Woman explained that the former Tusi was trying to reclaim power, and Sha LiFei advised the villagers to present a Ten Thousand People Umbrella to the Chongqing Prefecture office.
• Li Yan’s group camped overnight, traveled for two more days, and arrived at Chongqing Prefecture, where Sha LiFei pointed out Chaotian Gate.

Li Yan and his companions used a secret passage to enter Chongqing Prefecture while avoiding the city gates and scrutiny. They rented a dilapidated residence on Rice Flower Street, set up watches, and Li Yan began inspecting the goods taken from the three Wushan Earth Immortals.

• Liu San guided Sha LiFei, Li Yan, and their masked group from Chaotian Gate Wharf to a warehouse where Gelaohui men demanded twenty taels per person for passage.
• Li Yan paid the fee and led the group through an underground passage into the city, refusing a Gelaohui offer to investigate Baleful Intent at Third Master Chen’s residence.
• Liu San found the group a large abandoned residence on Rice Flower Street, where Sha LiFei paid him and asked him to return the next day.
• Li Yan discovered a corpse in the rear courtyard well and told the group not to drink its water, while Lu San sent rats to watch their surroundings.
• Li Yan unpacked the belongings taken from the three Wushan Earth Immortals and began inspecting them.

Li Yan examined the relics taken from the dead earth immortals, advanced his Great Luo Dharma Body, and developed the force-deflecting Undying Imprint Method. As the group settled in Chongqing and discussed Dragon Yan'er’s plight, a Zhou family servant arrived seeking a Sichuan Opera troupe for a suspicious nighttime funeral performance.

• Li Yan sorted the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl, Nether Iron blades, prophecy books, and Tantric scroll, then gave Yi Prophecy and Luo Apocrypha to Wang Dao Xuan to study.
• Li Yan observed that his Great Luo Dharma Body had grown stronger and tested the Undying Imprint Method by transferring a palm strike’s force into the ground.
• Li Yan marked possible destinations on a map of Sichuan and Shu, then found Wang Dao Xuan and handed him Wang MengSheng’s books.
• Bai Huan told Li Yan that Dragon Yan’er wanted help laying her dead master and senior brother to rest, and said the group might be able to help after the Bo Prefecture Yang Family fell.
• Sha LiFei and Wu Ba brought water, and the group gathered around a fire to share a meal.
• A Zhou family servant announced a doubled payment for a Sichuan Opera troupe to perform at a funeral that night, and an acrobatic troupe leader questioned his story.