Recaps

Li Yan and his companions traveled through heavy snow toward Qingcheng Mountain, discussing their plans and finding a family murdered at a ruined temple. After burying the victims, they encountered an armed caravan whose old leader recognized them as the Twelve Yuan Chen.

• Li Yan told Sha LiFei that Qingcheng Mountain had settled down and that Zhao Yun and Xing Yu were being cared for at Water Moon Convent; he also discussed possibly visiting Qiankun Academy with Yan Jiuling.
• Lu San used his falcon to find an abandoned Mountain God Temple where a carriage stood outside, and Li Yan detected blood inside.
• Li Yan and his companions found a murdered family in the temple and buried the bodies while Wang Dao Xuan recited scriptures for them.
• A large caravan arrived at the temple, and its black-robed leader ordered his people to ready their weapons after noticing the fresh burial mound.
• Sha LiFei told the old man that they were travelers, and the man recognized Li Yan and the others as the Twelve Yuan Chen.

Li Yan learned from Dragon Girl that a rival had taken Jiang God Great Lord’s lingering power and threatened her chance to become the Min River Water God. After discovering the Flower Festival Assembly could help rebuild Dragon Girl’s temple, Li Yan planned to seek Erlang Zhenjun’s reincarnation and confront their enemies together; at the fork near Guan County, he headed for Qingcheng Mountain while Lu San, Sha LiFei, and Wu Ba went with the escort convoy.

• Wang Tianzuo told Li Yan that the Shu King Residence had killed martial-world comrades and ruined its reputation after one of its princes was slain.
• Dragon Girl showed Li Yan the Dragon Palace Water Mansion, revealed the Dragon Pattern Jade Tablet as its key, and asked him to defeat the rival who had stolen Jiang God Great Lord’s remnant, rebuild her temple, and gather offerings.
• Li Yan learned from Wang Tianzuo that Chengdu’s Flower Festival Assembly featured young women parading as the Twelve Month Flower Gods and worshipping the Hundred Flowers Fairy.
• Li Yan decided to seek Erlang Zhenjun’s reincarnation near Dujiangyan and form an alliance against their enemies.
• Lu San, Sha LiFei, and Wu Ba agreed to travel with the escort convoy while Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan headed toward Qingcheng Mountain.

Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan reached Qingcheng Mountain, where Ming Shanzi revealed that Sword Immortal Cheng had warned his family about Li Yan before describing the Sword Immortal’s mysterious decline. Meanwhile, Sha LiFei and his companions escaped a false arrest in Guan County and met the Faceless Young Master, who had secretly helped them.

• Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan lost their way in the snow, then met Ming Shanzi, who escorted them to Jianfu Palace for the night.
• Ming Shanzi told Li Yan that he had waited for him because Cheng YuanXing was his elder brother and Sword Immortal Cheng had warned the Cheng family not to provoke Li Yan.
• Ming Shanzi revealed that Sword Immortal Cheng had once sought to ascend to godhood but later secluded himself, grew weak, and went blind, causing Li Yan to drop his teacup in shock.
• Constable Wan tried to arrest Sha LiFei and his companions over a murder, but a runner reported that the actual killers had confessed, forcing the constable to withdraw.
• Sha LiFei concluded that the Shu King Residence had arranged the ambush and wondered who had exposed the real killers before the Faceless Young Master arrived at the inn.

Sha LiFei learned that the Shu King Residence was trying to drive the Twelve Yuan Chen out of Guan County, while Li Yan discovered that the Cheng Family wanted their help protecting the Fifth Prince. Li Yan accepted the commission in exchange for the Western Xuan Lineage’s Five Chapters Divine Secret, and he and Wang Dao Xuan set out for Chengdu.

• The Faceless Young Master told Sha LiFei that the Shu King Residence had ordered the government office to harass the Twelve Yuan Chen and proposed cooperation, but left when he learned they knew nothing about the sought-after item.
• Sha LiFei asked Wang Tianzuo to help search for the bearded man Li Yan had described, claiming the man owed them money.
• Li Yan spent the night considering Ming Shanzi’s revelation that the Blind Old Daoist was Sword Immortal Cheng, then attended morning lessons at the Daoist temple with Wang Dao Xuan.
• Ming Shanzi explained that his Cheng Family wanted the Twelve Yuan Chen to secretly protect the Fifth Prince until the succession struggle was settled.
• Ming Shanzi offered Wang Dao Xuan a copy of Chi Jiangziyu’s Five Chapters Divine Secret in exchange for their help, and Li Yan accepted the commission.
• After leaving Jianfu Palace, Li Yan told Wang Dao Xuan that the Cheng Family was seeking influence with the future King of Chengdu, and they continued toward Chengdu to obtain the technique and aid the Dragon Girl’s mission.

Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan visited Water Moon Convent, where Master Xiaoyue explained Qingcheng Mountain’s lineages and Old Madam Bai warned that Long Yan'er might die during her secluded cultivation. After reaching the Ancestor Hall, Li Yan briefed Sect Leader Chen Kongzi on Zhao Changsheng’s allies, then learned that a Qingcheng elder wanted him to inherit the North Emperor Sect, the Earthly Deity Sect.

• Master Xiaoyue explained Qingcheng Mountain’s major Daoist lineages and advised Li Yan about the Cheng family and the mountain’s factions.
• Old Madam Bai told Li Yan that Long Yan'er might not survive her breakthrough at Great Snow Mountain and asked him to care for her if she succeeded.
• Daoist Lingyun guided Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan through the snow-covered mountain to the Ancestor Hall, where Sect Leader Chen Kongzi met them.
• Li Yan told Chen Kongzi that Zhao Changsheng had ties to the Dragon Worship Sect and the Shu King Residence, and Chen Kongzi promised to investigate both leads.
• Chen Kongzi told Li Yan that a Qingcheng elder wanted him to become the heir of the North Emperor Sect, also known as the Earthly Deity Sect.

Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan stayed at Chaoyang Cave on Qingcheng Mountain, where Li Yan learned that Jue Chenzi of the North Emperor Sect wanted to pass on its arts and wondered whether his own connection to the North Emperor Scripture was the reason. Meanwhile, Sha LiFei and Lu San rescued Wang Tianzuo from possession by a demon weasel, only to find its fellow animals gathering around the courtyard.

• Chen Kongzi told Li Yan that Jue Chenzi wanted to pass on the North Emperor Sect's arts, and Li Yan declined to commit to visiting him.
• Ling Yunzi brought Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan to stay at Chaoyang Cave and agreed to help Li Yan build a Fourth Floor and purchase Heavenly Spiritual Treasures.
• Li Yan wondered whether Jue Chenzi had sought him out because he cultivated the North Emperor Scripture and served as a Living Underworld Messenger.
• Wang Tianzuo's disciple asked Sha LiFei and Lu San to save the possessed escort chief, and they found him rampaging with a dead chicken in his mouth.
• Lu San subdued Wang Tianzuo while Chu Qi caught the demon weasel that had possessed him, and Sha LiFei demanded to know who had sent it.
• Weasels, snakes, rats, and other animals began peering over the courtyard wall as Lu San and Chu Qi sensed danger.

Lu San and Sha Lifei followed an old weasel to the corpse of Lu Lao Hei, uncovering a curse linked to the Loose Hair Sect and a secret sect that worshiped Lord of Sichuan Erlang. Meanwhile, Li Yan practiced martial arts at Chaoyang Cave, gained an auspicious glimpse of Purple Qi Comes From the East, and prepared to leave when a figure suddenly appeared.

• Sha Lifei and Lu San drove off the Little Demons, freed the bewitched guards, and removed the old weasel spirit from Wang Tianzuo.
• Wang Tianzuo identified the dead shaman as Lu Lao Hei, and Lu San learned the demons had come to question him after his sudden death.
• The old weasel led Lu San, Sha Lifei, and Wang Tianzuo beyond Guan County, where they found Lu Lao Hei's corpse guarded by a large snake.
• Lu San extracted a cursed jujube pit from Lu Lao Hei's chest and identified the spell as the work of the Loose Hair Sect.
• Lu San learned from the old weasel about the Seven Sages of Meishan, a secret sect devoted to Lord of Sichuan Erlang.
• Li Yan practiced martial arts at Chaoyang Cave, drew in a wisp of Purple Qi Comes From the East at sunrise, and prepared to depart before an unknown figure appeared on the mountain path.

Li Yan met Master Fire Tuo, who confirmed that the Mount Hua blade-forger was his senior brother and began reforging Li Yan’s Severing Dust Blade with a flood dragon horn. After returning to Chaoyang Cave, Li Yan agreed to visit Jue Chenzi and learned more about the Earthly Deity Sect’s lineage and arts.

• Fire Tuo demanded to know who forged Li Yan’s blade, then admitted he only wanted to learn whether his senior brother was alive.
• Fire Tuo tested Li Yan’s speed across Qingcheng Mountain before taking him to his hidden workshop and showing him a blade shaped like the Severing Dust Blade.
• Fire Tuo inspected Li Yan’s weapon and offered to use the Flood Dragon Horn to amplify its thunder techniques; Li Yan chose the more powerful method, and Fire Tuo asked him to return in five days.
• Li Yan returned to Chaoyang Cave, where Ling Yunzi arranged for him to visit Jue Chenzi at Laojun Temple.
• Ling Yunzi told Li Yan that Jue Chenzi belonged to the Earthly Deity Sect, whose arts included thunder techniques and summoning Marshal Wen.

Li Yan learned that Jue Chenzi was a Celestial Master and that Heaven had directed him to pass on two North Emperor methods. After hearing how the Fengdu Method could complete Li Yan’s underworld inheritance and grant Dharma realm mystical powers, Li Yan chose to learn it.

• Ling Yunzi explained that the Earthly Deity Sect descended from the North Emperor Sect and helped promote Marshal Wen’s worship.
• At Laojun Temple, Li Yan’s identification tablet reacted to Jue Chenzi’s thunder talisman, leading him to suspect Jue Chenzi shared his unusual status.
• Jue Chenzi privately revealed that he was a Celestial Master and had learned of Li Yan through a golden-armored deity’s dream message.
• Jue Chenzi brought out the North Emperor Method manuals and described the Tianpeng, Fengdu, and other methods.
• Jue Chenzi explained that the Fengdu Method could grant Li Yan the Fengdu Nine Springs Command Talisman and the Investigating Three Realms Ghosts and Gods Seal, and Li Yan chose it.

Li Yan accepted the Bing Ding Life-Creating Ghost Talisman and learned the Fengdu Method from Jue Chenzi, who warned him about the coming transformation of the Human Path. While Li Yan prepared to retreat at a reserved grotto on Zhao Gong Mountain, Sha LiFei and his companions investigated the murder of Old Brother Lu in Black Water Village and found something strange in his house.

• Li Yan chose the Fengdu Method over the Demon King and Zhenwu methods, and Jue Chenzi explained that the Earthly Deity Sect's Marshal Wen summoning secret required a rare talisman.
• Jue Chenzi gave Li Yan the Bing Ding Life-Creating Ghost Talisman and taught him the Fengdu Method's General Class before warning that the Human Path's transformation would bring calamity.
• Ling Yunzi told Li Yan he had reserved Zhao Lingguan's Blessed Grotto-Heaven for his cultivation, and Li Yan examined the talisman after returning to Chaoyang Cave.
• Wang Tianzuo led Sha LiFei and Lu San to Black Water Village to investigate Old Brother Lu's death, where Lu San learned that the Meishan Brotherhood and local Little Demons had never seen Erlang Zhenjun.
• Lu San silenced the village dogs so the group could enter Old Brother Lu's courtyard, but Sha LiFei stopped when he sensed something strange and heard a woman crying inside.

Lu San, Sha LiFei, and Wang Tianzuo investigated the attack on Lu Lao Hei and discovered that the Faceless Young Master and Tang Ling were searching for the Dragon Palace Water Mansion. They followed a clue to a ruined GuanKou God Temple, where they found a statue matching one from the ancient Ghost Qiang village.

• Lu San used yarrow divination at Lu Lao Hei’s house, found signs of a Fierce Ghost and a trap, and sent Sha LiFei and Wang Tianzuo inside to search.
• Old Yellow identified a Jujube Wood Cabinet tied to a temple where Lu Lao Hei had helped Yin Souls, but the group left the house to ambush whoever had laid the trap.
• Lu San, Sha LiFei, and the others hid near the mountain and saw the Faceless Young Master arrive with Tang Ling and a Loose Hair Sect Daoist, so Lu San destroyed the straw-man bait and abandoned the ambush.
• The Faceless Young Master tried to recruit Tang Ling to search for the Dragon Palace Water Mansion, and Tang Ling suggested that the Meishan Brothers might have hidden its treasure in a temple.
• Wang Tianzuo suspected Lu Lao Hei had been attacked over the Dragon Palace Water Mansion, and the group followed the old weasel to a ruined GuanKou God Temple.
• Sha LiFei and Lu San found a toppled stone statue in the temple that matched the statue from the ancient Ghost Qiang village.

Sha LiFei and Lu San investigated the ruined GuanKou God Temple and suspected that the Meishan Brothers’ hidden artifact could lead to Dragon Palace Water Mansion. On Qingcheng Mountain, Li Yan searched Tianshi Cave for a Heavenly Spiritual Treasure suited to his cultivation, and the chapter ended when he discovered a mysterious carved stone called White Jade Capital.

• Sha LiFei, Lu San, and Wang Tianzuo found a stele naming the Meishan Brothers as protectors of the True Lord, but the old yellow weasel knew nothing about what had happened there.
• Sha LiFei and Lu San deduced that the Meishan Brothers had possessed an artifact needed to enter Dragon Palace Water Mansion through a dream, and they suspected the King of Shu wanted the Elixir of Immortality.
• Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan went with Ling Yunzi to Tianshi Cave, where they bought talisman paper and magical artifacts before Ling Yunzi arranged access to the Tianshi Secret Chamber.
• Li Yan rejected the Heavenly Spiritual Treasures on the chamber’s first floor and examined the rarer items on the second floor, but none seemed suited to his cultivation technique.
• A wooden box fell from a display shelf, revealing a carved stone that Bai Yu identified as White Jade Capital, an item found in an ancient Eastern Han tomb beneath Qingcheng Mountain.

Li Yan bought the strange White Jade Capital carving, discovered it was a miniature grotto-heaven containing the souls of dead Treasure Hunters, and considered using it to build his tower. He then received the reforged Severing Dust Blade and learned that Master Fire Tuo had left for Emei Mountain to visit a dying old friend.

• Li Yan bought the White Jade Capital carving from Daoist Bai Yu for eight thousand taels and discovered he could hear voices coming from its holes.
• Dragon Girl guided Li Yan in a dream into the carving, where he found the trapped souls of the Treasure Hunters and learned the object was a special grotto-heaven.
• Li Yan studied the White Jade Capital for two days and considered using it to build his tower and expand his divine-presence palaces.
• Ling Yunzi brought Li Yan the reforged Severing Dust Blade, which revealed its power when Li Yan infused it with thunder magic.
• Ling Yunzi gave Li Yan the Twelve Yuan Chen tokens and said Master Fire Tuo had gone to Emei Mountain to visit a dying old friend, asking Li Yan to tell him he was sorry if they met again.

Li Yan cultivated the Fengdu Method in Zhao Lingguan’s ancient cave, using the winter’s dense Yin Energy and Gang Wind to build his Divine Tower. As he chanted the Fengdu Precious Proclamation, the White Jade Capital ornament absorbed the astral winds and a jade mountain appeared in his spirit-preservation space.

• Ling Yunzi explained Zhao Gong Mountain’s history and revealed that its blessed lands were being opened because Qingcheng’s grotto-heavens were occupied or used to store Spiritual Materials.
• Ling Yunzi led Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan to Zhao Lingguan’s ancient cave, where Li Yan chose to cultivate alone while Wang Dao Xuan went down the mountain.
• Li Yan arranged the ritual altar and lit sixty-four Soul Guiding Lamps as the cave filled with frost and Yin wind.
• Li Yan opened the formation and entered his spirit-preservation space, where excessive Yin Energy froze the Soul Sea and spread across Luo Feng Mountain.
• Thunder shattered the ice as Li Yan guarded his Divine Soul and chanted the Fengdu Precious Proclamation to recreate his Divine Tower.
• The White Jade Capital ornament drew in the astral winds, and a white jade mountain appeared above the clouds in Li Yan’s spirit-preservation space.

Li Yan used the Spiritual Charm of the White Jade Capital ornament to transform Luo Feng Mountain and establish the Fengdu palaces, but dawn interrupted his attempt to condense the Outer Altar Eight Generals. Meanwhile, Wang Dao Xuan found a new way to investigate Lu Lao Hei’s past, the Shunyuan Escort Agency’s escorts prepared to leave, and corpse-like figures appeared over the courtyard wall.

• Li Yan absorbed the White Jade Capital’s Spiritual Charm, reshaping Luo Feng Mountain with Fengdu palaces, cave abodes, and six caves for the Demon Kings.
• Li Yan began condensing the Outer Altar Eight Generals, but dawn weakened the Celestial Fiend Qi before he could finish, so he planned to continue after obtaining more Soul Guiding Lamps.
• Wang Dao Xuan reasoned that Lu Lao Hei might have helped raise the reincarnated person and suggested secretly asking Guan County’s butchers about households that bought large amounts of mutton.
• Old Three rallied the Shunyuan Escort Agency’s escorts to demand that Wang Tianzuo leave the next day, and Sha LiFei agreed to take responsibility for avenging Lu Lao Hei.
• Lu San awoke in the night and saw several pale, bloodied heads rising above the courtyard wall.

Lu San, Wang Dao Xuan, Sha LiFei, and Wu Ba defeated a poison-wielding attack on the Shunyuan Escort Agency and learned that the Shu King Residence was searching for something linked to Lu Lao Hei. After helping Wang Tianzuo escape Guan County, they hid from the authorities and began investigating events from thirty years earlier, when Hou Xuan mentioned the Ghost Opera Troupe.

• Lu San warned the escort masters about the Walking Corpses, but two were killed when poisonous smoke burst from one of the corpses.
• Wang Dao Xuan and Sha LiFei subdued the Walking Corpses while Lu San and Wu Ba killed the attackers and captured the ritualist.
• The ritualist said the Shu King Residence wanted Lu Lao Hei's unknown possession, but the Jujube Pit Curse killed him before he could reveal more.
• Wang Tianzuo left Guan County with the Shunyuan Escort Agency, while Sha LiFei and the others evaded the yamen by hiding in an abandoned home.
• Sha LiFei asked Hou Xuan about strange events thirty years earlier, and Hou Xuan brought up the Ghost Opera Troupe.

Sha LiFei and his companions investigated the abandoned Yang Family Village, where they uncovered signs of a ritual and an old burial pit. When armed attackers ambushed them, the Twelve Yuan Chen defeated the Commandery Commandant Office gunmen and Shu King Residence forces, including the Loose Hair Sect sorcerer.

• Hou Xuan told Sha LiFei that the Ghost Opera Troupe had been linked to the destruction of Yang Family Village thirty years earlier, and led the group to the widow's former residence and then to the village.
• Wang Dao Xuan spotted footprints and found burned ritual materials; he used incense ash to trace a technique to a pit containing old bones beneath the Yang family's ruins.
• An eagle warned the group of an attack, and Sha LiFei identified New Style Firearms and directed the Twelve Yuan Chen to take cover.
• Sha LiFei and Lu San used Thunder Fire Pills and the Demon Gourd's venomous bees to fight back, while Sha LiFei shot down two attackers from the Commandery Commandant Office.
• Sha LiFei sent a Fire Caltrop into the attackers from the Shu King Residence, and the Twelve Yuan Chen finished off the remaining gunmen and fighters.
• Wang Dao Xuan used the date pit from Lu Lao Hei's body to disrupt the Loose Hair Sect sorcerer's spell, allowing Wu Ba to kill him; Hou Xuan recognized the group's strength.

After Sha LiFei’s group escaped the ruins of Yang Family Village, Granny Chang and the Ghost Opera Troupe tracked them into the mountains. Meanwhile, Li Yan completed the Fourth Floor of Dao Progress and tested the enhanced power of his North Emperor Yin Thunder Palm.

• Sha LiFei questioned a dying officer, learned that the Ghost Opera Troupe had scattered the Chengdu underworld, and led his group away from Yang Family Village.
• Hou Xuan warned that Guan County might impose martial law and guided the group toward a secluded tea plantation in the mountains.
• Granny Chang used animals to find the trail of the Twelve Yuan Chen, then set off with the black-faced martial performer and Clown to pursue them.
• Li Yan entered seclusion and reviewed how his Fengdu visualization had formed the Outer Altar Eight Generals, whose power strengthened his spells.
• At Zi Hour, Li Yan began building the Fourth Floor and successfully condensed it before the Chou Hour.
• Li Yan used the Outer Altar Eight Generals to empower his North Emperor Yin Thunder Palm, producing power comparable to a Dao Progress Fifth Floor sorcerer at the cost of considerable spiritual strength.

Li Yan studied the Fengdu Method and refined his combat path, strengthening his Soul Hooking Lightning Rope and mastering Yin Deity transformation. Meanwhile, an unseen enemy attacked the tea plantation group, disabling Lu San’s hearing and driving them into the snow, where Sha LiFei was seized by a hand from below.

• Li Yan practiced summoning the Outer Altar Eight Generals with Chuling Paper Figures, but the figures burned up under their power.
• Li Yan chose the North Emperor Divine Transformation Scripture as a central part of his fighting style and poured three strands of divine thunder into the Soul Hooking Lightning Rope.
• Li Yan used the strengthened ropes to transform into a Yin Deity.
• At the tea plantation, a powerful presence destroyed Wang Dao Xuan’s warning talisman and used a Soul-Shattering Technique to disable Lu San’s hearing.
• Sha LiFei led Wang Dao Xuan, Lu San, and Wu Ba out through a wall as Falcon Li Dong drove off the Strange Blood Parrot with Sha LiFei’s gunfire.
• As the group tried to flee through the snow, a hand reached from beneath it and grabbed Sha LiFei’s ankle.

Sha Lifei and his companions fought through the Old Woman’s ambush as they tried to reach the river and mountains. Xie SanYang and Gou Wa attacked them together, with the chapter ending as Gou Wa’s flames engulfed Lu San.

• Gou Wa’s buried hand seized Sha Lifei, but Wang Dao Xuan wounded it with his Coin Sword and Sha Lifei drove it back with a firearm.
• Lu San led the group after Chu Qi detected a route through the snow, while the Blood Parrot alerted the Old Woman that they had escaped the encirclement.
• The Old Woman sent Gou Wa to delay the group and Xie SanYang to intercept them, then used a Beast Controlling Technique that left Chu Qi writhing in pain.
• Sha Lifei sensed an ambush, and Wang Dao Xuan had Lu San strike Li Yan’s Cloud Thunder Divine Drum to disrupt the opera troupe’s Sonic Illusion Technique.
• Xie SanYang attacked with his Guan Sword, but Wu Ba fought him back with Eight Extremities techniques while Sha Lifei held his fire against Gou Wa’s feints.
• Gou Wa burst from the snow behind the group and blew flames from his burning club, engulfing Lu San.

Sha LiFei, Lu San, Wu Ba, and Wang Dao Xuan escaped the Ghost Opera Troupe and hid in a cave, where Wang Dao Xuan removed the curse afflicting Little White Fox Chu Qi and Lu San began restoring his hearing. At dawn, their group prepared to strike back while Li Yan descended Zhao Gong Mountain.

• Sha LiFei and Lu San exposed and destroyed the Clown’s Corpse Refining Puppet, then helped break the Ghost Opera Troupe’s attack as Wang Dao Xuan used Rampaging Soldiers to turn the battle.
• Wang Dao Xuan led the group across a river to erase their tracks, while the Ghost Opera Troupe regrouped under Granny Chang and searched the snowy mountains for them.
• In a concealed cave, Wang Dao Xuan extracted the Evil Curse from Little White Fox Chu Qi and sealed it in a straw figure, while Lu San chewed Mount Wu Divine Tea to mend his injured spirits.
• Wang Dao Xuan said the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl would hide them long enough to prepare traps, and Sha LiFei and the others began setting them at dawn.
• Li Yan bade farewell to the mountain guardian Daoist and descended Zhao Gong Mountain.

Li Yan entered Guan County to investigate the disappearance of Sha LiFei and the others, learning that the Shu King Residence had become involved in the deaths at the Shunyuan Escort Agency. After helping Hou Xuan escape a garrison raid, Li Yan hurried to Tea Mountain, where he found signs of a battle and confronted a Blood Parrot.

• Li Yan gave a charcoal seller silver for information and learned that deaths at the Shunyuan Escort Agency had prompted a strict search in Guan County.
• Li Yan infiltrated the city and overheard Yamen Runners reveal that officials from the Shu King Residence were pressuring the magistrate to find the people responsible.
• Li Yan discovered garrison soldiers surrounding Hou Xuan’s residence and used the Fengdu Eight Generals Pursuit and Capture Method to disrupt their attack.
• Li Yan met Hou Xuan outside the city and learned that he had sent Sha LiFei and the others to a tea plantation before escaping through a secret passage.
• Li Yan hurried to Tea Mountain, found the grounds wrecked by a battle, and called out when he sensed someone nearby.
• A Blood Parrot flew down from a distant treetop.

Li Yan captured the Blood Parrot, learned that the Ghost Opera Troupe was fighting Sha LiFei and his companions, and destroyed Clown Gou Wa’s hidden true body. He reached the battlefield just as Gou Wa attacked Sha LiFei and Wu Ba, stopping him beneath the snow.

• Li Yan subdued the Blood Parrot, found a dead man in a hut, and learned Granny Chang and the Ghost Opera Troupe were battling Sha LiFei’s group in the snowy mountains.
• The Blood Parrot revealed that Gou Wa’s Puppet Technique depended on his hidden true body, so Li Yan followed it to Gou Wa’s location and smashed his head.
• Sha LiFei, Wu Ba, and Wang Dao Xuan struggled against Xie SanYang and the Ghost Opera Troupe, while Wu Ba was wounded and his battle axe shattered.
• After Gou Wa’s true body was destroyed, his unstable Yin Soul returned to a puppet and lunged underground toward Sha LiFei and Wu Ba.
• Li Yan arrived, bound Gou Wa with the Soul Hooking Chain, and thrust his saber into the snow, bringing the attack to a halt.

Li Yan returned to the battlefield, helped his allies defeat the Ghost Opera Troupe’s gunman, and killed Xie SanYang after he summoned the Hanging Guest Star Lord and resorted to Evil Omen Qi. The chapter left Wang Dao Xuan struggling to maintain his Seven Arrows Secret Curse against Granny Chang as Li Yan placed a tally document on the ritual altar to help him.

• Li Yan ordered Sha LiFei, Wu Ba, and Lu San to deal with the other enemies while he confronted Xie SanYang.
• Sha LiFei, Wu Ba, and Lu San ambushed the gunman, and Wu Ba killed him with a powerful charge.
• Xie SanYang summoned the Hanging Guest Star Lord and attacked Li Yan, who used the Fengdu Method to block him and wound him with his Severing Dust Blade.
• Xie SanYang cut his forehead and unleashed Evil Omen Qi, but Li Yan defeated him with the Heavenly Thunder Demon Subduing Hammer and beheaded him.
• Li Yan returned to the cavern, found Wang Dao Xuan close to losing the sorcery battle with Granny Chang, and placed a tally document on the ritual altar.

Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan used the Fengdu Method to strengthen the Seven Arrows Secret Curse while Granny Chang tried to protect herself with a Disaster Shifting Method. Sha LiFei and his companions broke through her defenses and killed her, but Li Yan warned that the Ghost Opera Troupe’s return could bring further danger.

• Li Yan summoned Laborer Envoys from Luo Feng Mountain, letting Wang Dao Xuan channel netherworld Yin Energy into his altar and strike Granny Chang with the curse.
• Granny Chang used the Disaster Shifting Method and sent three Ghost Opera Troupe musicians to trap Sha LiFei, Lu San, and Wu Ba in a fog illusion.
• Sha LiFei used a Fire Caltrop to break the illusion formation, killing the qin player and injuring the Erhu player, whom he then beheaded.
• Granny Chang released Plague Poison from a shattered earthenware jar, but Lu San used his flute and Poisonous Bee Swarm to counter it as Sha LiFei and Wu Ba closed in.
• Li Yan’s netherworld Malevolent Qi froze Granny Chang, and Sha LiFei shot her; Wang Dao Xuan’s straw effigy burned, confirming that the curse’s target had died.
• After the group confirmed the nearby enemies were dead, Li Yan warned that the Ghost Opera Troupe’s return could stir up a greater storm.