Arc 99The Kunlun Ruins and Two Forget Peak

Xu Yi hunted sacred fruits in the Kunlun Ruins, survived a tribulation that advanced him to the Corpse Slaying Realm, and joined Two Forget Peak. The arc ended with him learning that Xuan Lengyan had been imprisoned by Pang Qingyun and that Ning Wuque and Gold Corpse Old Cao might help protect her.

  • Xu Yi teamed with Huang Mei to seize treasures, defeat the Five Great Evil Lords, and trap Cao Da’s companions after Cao Da’s death.
  • Xu Yi learned Liu Ming had taken the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit and confronted him, but Liu Ming lured Xu Yi into the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land.
  • Xu Yi survived his tribulation in the cave, reached the Corpse Slaying Realm, and defeated Liu Ming’s forces with his Heaven-Covering Hand and jade-skinned corpse.
  • Xu Yi took five Five Blessings Longevity Fruits from Liu Ming and returned to Bamboo Manor, where he prepared for the Trial Grand Competition while studying mathematics and artifact refining.
  • Xu Yi declined Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei’s initial invitation, then negotiated with Song Zheng Yi and joined Two Forget Peak in exchange for the Skin Appearance Sutra and a token.
  • Xu Yi killed Liu Wuzhou and Brother Tie when they tried to take Xiong Bei Ming, then heard that Pang Qingyun had imprisoned Xuan Lengyan in Ghost Cry Underworld Prison.
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Ch. 2471Harvesting the Treasures

Xu Yi revealed that Huang Mei had helped him find eighteen heavenly treasures in the Kunlun Ruins, and forced the reluctant Chiwu Worm to guide him to more. Huang Mei knew someone who could help locate the five sacred fruits Xu Yi needed, but first offered to lead him to guarded treasures, leaving Xu Yi’s confidence about facing their guardians unexplained.

  • Xu Yi collected eighteen heavenly treasures with a blood-red bead that pierced Huang Mei’s illusions.
  • Huang Mei attacked Xu Yi, who trapped him with his sword intent and demanded that he guide him through the Kunlun Ruins.
  • Xu Yi explained that he had sent Huang Mei to scout for treasures over the past three years and threatened to send him back to the Purple Domain Space if he refused to cooperate.
  • Xu Yi showed Huang Mei images of five sacred fruits that could repair his lifespan, and Huang Mei said he knew someone who had seen them.
  • Huang Mei offered to lead Xu Yi to guarded treasures, while Xu Yi insisted he could handle whatever he found.

Ch. 2472Fivefold Treasure Snatching

Xu Yi and Huang Mei stole five precious medicines from powerful beasts as they traveled through the wilderness. After surviving a brutal fight with a Crystal Qilin Beast to take the Dragon-Phoenix Welcoming Sun Pill Fruit, they escaped with their lives and continued onward.

  • Huang Mei drew out the Nine-Winged Old Dragon Centipede while Xu Yi struck it with the Thousand Mountains Arm, giving Huang Mei time to steal the Golden Dragon Fruit.
  • Xu Yi and Huang Mei fled without killing the centipede, and Xu Yi claimed that killing after taking the treasure would go against the natural order.
  • Xu Yi and Huang Mei traveled twenty thousand li by a winding route and fought five battles, snatching five precious medicines.
  • Xu Yi saw the Dragon-Phoenix Welcoming Sun Pill Fruit guarded by a Crystal Qilin Beast and attacked despite recognizing its strength.
  • The Crystal Qilin Beast pierced Xu Yi through the chest and abdomen three times, but Xu Yi used the Bixiu Sword to escape with the fruit.

Ch. 2473The Five Great Evil Lords

Xu Yi followed Huang Mei to Chrysanthemum Valley to confront the Five Great Evil Lords and seize their treasures. After Xu Yi ambushed Qian Mu, the other four lords arrived and surrounded his Bixiu Sword.

  • Huang Mei told Xu Yi about the Five Great Evil Lords, their treasure-filled medicinal garden, and his earlier escape from Chrysanthemum Valley.
  • Xu Yi decided to go to Chrysanthemum Valley with Huang Mei, hoping to learn the whereabouts of sacred fruits and take the lords' treasures.
  • Qian Mu spotted Huang Mei and attacked him as Huang Mei darted through the forest to lure out the others.
  • Xu Yi ambushed Qian Mu with the Bixiu Sword, shattered his white giant sword, and pursued him.
  • The other four lords—Zhu Huang, Gu Ye, Wang Wei, and Jia Ping—arrived and used their giant swords to surround the Bixiu Sword.

Ch. 2474Battle After Battle

Xu Yi confronted the Five Great Evil Lords and their ally Qian Mu, revealing the power of his swords and Demon-Ghost Aspect while Zixiao broke Zhu Huang's gold hammer. The villains formed an array that trapped Xu Yi, and Zhu Huang urged him to surrender so he could seize Xu Yi's Manifestation Art.

  • Zhu Huang realized Xu Yi was only at the Divine Embryo Realm, and Gu Ye attacked him in disbelief.
  • Xu Yi's Bixiu Sword defeated Gu Ye's purple sword, while the Five Great Evil Lords mourned the loss of their White Sword.
  • Qian Mu joined the Four Great Evil Lords in attacking Xu Yi, who used the Demon-Ghost Aspect to strike Jia Ping and fend off their assault.
  • Zhu Huang's gold hammer nearly crushed Xu Yi, but Zixiao struck it down with Thunder True Intent.
  • The Five Great Evil Lords split off their corpses and formed an array that trapped Xu Yi behind walls of spiritual force.
  • Zhu Huang urged Xu Yi to surrender, hoping to obtain his Manifestation Art.

Ch. 2475Vajra Aspect

Xu Yi defeated the Five Great Evil Lords with his newly cultivated Adamant Aspect, while Huang Mei absorbed their corpses’ deathly aura and secured their corpse cores. As Xu Yi hid from his approaching nemesis, Cao Da and his fellow disciples arrived nearby, still pursuing him.

  • Xu Yi manifested the Adamant Aspect and shattered the Five Great Evil Lords’ spirit wall with a Great Hand Seal.
  • Huang Mei absorbed the deathly aura from the fallen corpses, and Xu Yi captured the five corpse cores as the Evil Lords surrendered.
  • Huang Mei warned Xu Yi that his old nemesis was near, so Zhu Huang led Xu Yi and the others into a hidden doorway in a cliff near Chrysanthemum Valley.
  • Cao Da, Du Fei, Mu Yu, and Tong Fang arrived at the battle site after pursuing Xu Yi across the Kunlun Ruins with the Da Ming Snake.
  • Du Fei recognized the traces of a major battle and suggested they ask the Five Great Evil Lords about Xu Yi.

Ch. 2476Breaking Them Down One by One

Cao Da, Mu Yu, Tong Fang, and Du Fei went to Chrysanthemum Valley to retrieve Xu Yi, agreeing to Zhu Huang’s request for a series of sparring matches. When Xu Yi escaped, he overwhelmed the Two Forget Peak disciples, leaving Cao Da pinned as the fight continued.

  • Du Fei showed Zhu Huang Xu Yi’s image, and Zhu Huang agreed to hand Xu Yi over after asking to test the Two Forget Peak disciples in combat.
  • Zhu Huang and the Five Brothers stretched the two-against-one sparring into a series of fights, frustrating Cao Da and the others.
  • A shout from inside the cave revealed that Xu Yi had escaped, and the four disciples rushed after him.
  • Tong Fang used the Great Evolution Star Attack Technique against Xu Yi, but Xu Yi’s giant sword broke through it and wounded Tong Fang.
  • Xu Yi’s True Spirit Sword shattered Mu Yu’s formation diagrams and sent him flying.
  • Cao Da attacked with his corpse, but Xu Yi’s Adamant Aspect pinned him in place as a wisp of corpse aura darted toward Xu Yi.

Ch. 2477One Net to Catch Them All

Xu Yi defeated the disciples from Two Forget Peak, took their corpse cores, and forced Mu Yu, Du Fei, and Tong Fang to kill Cao Da. After claiming Cao Da’s treasures, Xu Yi learned that a rare Da Ming Snake had tracked them to the Kunlun Ruins.

  • Xu Yi revealed that his capture had been a ruse, and the Five Great Evil Lords attacked and defeated Du Fei.
  • Xu Yi collected the corpse cores of Mu Yu, Du Fei, and Tong Fang, then had the Five Great Evil Lords bind Cao Da.
  • Xu Yi recognized Cao Da as Brother Hat and forced Mu Yu, Du Fei, and Tong Fang to kill him.
  • Huang Mei consumed Cao Da’s corpse aura, and Xu Yi collected Cao Da’s treasures.
  • Zhu Huang identified Cao Da’s little snake as a Da Ming Snake that tracked living beings by their aura.

Ch. 2478Heaven-Covering Hand

Xu Yi subdued Tong Fang, Du Fei, and Mu Yu, seized their treasures and medicinal herbs, and forced Tong Fang to demonstrate the Heaven-Covering Hand. After studying the technique and the disciples’ notes, Xu Yi reconstructed it, then began explaining why he had entered Kunlun Ruins.

  • Tong Fang, Du Fei, and Mu Yu used their Ruyi Pearls to give their sect a cover story for Cao Da’s death, leaving them implicated in both murder and deception.
  • Xu Yi forced the group to empty their Starry Sky Rings and had Zhu Huang lead him to the medicinal herb garden, which he cleared out.
  • Xu Yi questioned the group about Cao Da’s Heaven-Covering Hand, and Du Fei exposed Tong Fang for concealing that he had learned the technique.
  • Xu Yi punished Tong Fang with an Origin Seal Bead, then let him demonstrate the Heaven-Covering Hand and studied Cao Da and Tong Fang’s jade-slip notes.
  • Xu Yi deciphered and reconstructed the Heaven-Covering Hand, then told the group that his reason for entering Kunlun Ruins began with Cao Da.

Ch. 2479Breaking Through the Veil of Ignorance

Xu Yi learned that Black Mountain Old Demon Liu Ming may possess the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit and decided to seek him out after advancing to the Corpse Slaying Realm. He refined wish beads until his divine embryo’s cocoon nearly cleared, then gathered more beads to complete his breakthrough.

  • Zhu Huang told Xu Yi that Liu Ming had likely taken the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit from White Medicine Old Li Tong, whom Liu Ming tortured and killed at Tongshan.
  • Xu Yi sent Du Fei and Qian Mu to Ink City to trade precious treasures of heaven and earth for Purple Wish Beads.
  • Du Fei and Qian Mu returned with thirteen Purple Wish Beads, and Xu Yi refined them with his Black Origin Beads until the cocoon around his divine embryo became translucent and nearly clear.
  • Xu Yi sent Du Fei and Qian Mu back to Ink City for more beads, then practiced with the new Heaven Covering Palm tower to expend his Mana Yuan.
  • Du Fei and Qian Mu returned the next morning with sixteen Purple Wish Beads, and Xu Yi bathed, changed, and rested.

Ch. 2480Caught off guard

After refining the eighth Purple Wish Bead, Xu Yi nearly triggered a tribulation and led his group to Black Mountain to negotiate for the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit. Liu Ming and the Five Great Evil Lords betrayed him, forcing him into a cave filled with a powerful five-element yin-baleful force.

  • Xu Yi refined the eighth Purple Wish Bead, nearly summoned a Calamity Cloud, and dispersed it by refining a beast core.
  • Xu Yi led his companions to Black Mountain to negotiate with Liu Ming for the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit.
  • Du Fei invoked Two Forget Peak and Pure Yang Venerable Master, prompting Liu Ming to invite the group into his cave while he considered their offer.
  • Inside the cave passage, Liu Ming attacked Xu Yi, and the Five Great Evil Lords joined the assault.
  • Xu Yi dodged into a newly opened cave, where a terrifying suction force pulled him into a surge of five-element yin-baleful force.

Ch. 2481The Corpse-Slaying Begins

Xu Yi escaped the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave into Purple Domain Space, while Liu Ming and Zhu Huang revealed their trap and tried to force Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei into submission. Xu Yi’s lightning tribulation then struck the cave, leaving Liu Ming and the others in danger.

  • Xu Yi recognized the Five Elements Profound Yin Land and escaped through a gate of light into Purple Domain Space.
  • Liu Ming and Zhu Huang revealed that they had tricked Xu Yi into the cave, and Zhu Huang explained that its Five Elements Yin Fiend Qi made escape impossible for ordinary people.
  • Liu Ming demanded that Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei submit, but Mu Yu urged the others to fight rather than risk being turned into Yin Ba.
  • Lightning from Xu Yi’s Ninth Tribulation struck the mountainside and cave, forcing everyone to flee.
  • Zhu Huang realized that Xu Yi was in the Divine Embryo Realm and undergoing a tribulation to slay his corpse, while Liu Ming panicked at the danger.

Ch. 2482Various Kinds of Despair

Xu Yi escaped Purple Domain Space and underwent the Ninth Tribulation of Lightning in the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land, where its yin energy softened the lightning but the ordeal continued. Liu Ming and the Five Great Evil Lords waited to attack, while Xu Yi feared the remaining cocoon around his divine fetus would keep drawing out the tribulation until he could no longer endure it.

  • Xu Yi refined the remaining Purple Wish Beads, shed the transparent shell around his divine fetus, and emerged from Purple Domain Space with Huang Mei.
  • Xu Yi’s tribulation began in the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land, and he realized its extreme yin energy weakened the lightning while the Thunder True Intent tempered his divine fetus.
  • Liu Ming ordered the others to attack Xu Yi once the lightning stopped, then was blasted into a wall when the twenty-eighth bolt fell unexpectedly.
  • Zhu Huang and Qian Mu confirmed the bolt count, leaving Liu Ming and the Five Great Evil Lords despairing that Xu Yi had survived.
  • Xu Yi counted the bolts and panicked as the cocoon around his divine fetus continued releasing Clear Light after the twenty-eighth strike.

Ch. 2483Full-Spectrum Enhancement

Xu Yi endured the ongoing lightning tribulation as his corpse began to form, then used the thunder to temper the Bixiu Sword and refine his deepest grief. He learned to preserve a trace of sorrow so he could keep strengthening it without losing access to it.

  • Zhu Huang theorized that Xu Yi was dead and that the lightning tribulation continued because it had clashed with the Five Elements baleful intent, while Liu Ming and the others waited from afar.
  • Xu Yi used his three aspects to withstand the tribulation as his divine embryo became fetal light and the cocoon's ignorance began forming his corpse.
  • Xu Yi tempered the Bixiu Sword with corpse energy and Thunder True Intent.
  • Xu Yi repeatedly summoned the True Spirit Sword into the thunder, grinding away his deepest grief before drawing sorrow back out through memories of Xia Zimo.
  • Xu Yi preserved a sliver of sorrow and began tempering it again.

Ch. 2484The Corpse Is Formed

Xu Yi survived the eighty-eight lightning strikes in the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave and emerged having reached the Corpse Slaying Realm. He began fighting Liu Ming, whose treasured cave had been destroyed, and left Liu Ming bleeding after shattering his seal with a massive palm strike.

  • Supreme Sorrow Intent spread through Liu Ming and the others as lightning battered the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave, and Liu Ming sent Yin Fiends to investigate.
  • After the eighty-eighth bolt fell, the lightning stopped, and Xu Yi walked out of the cavern alive and newly advanced to the Corpse Slaying Realm.
  • Liu Ming attacked Xu Yi with more than ten Corpse Slaying Realm Yin Fiends, while the Five Great Evil Lords and Xu Yi’s allies joined the battle.
  • Xu Yi blocked Liu Ming’s giant seal with his sword beam, then merged nine palms of light into one and smashed the seal apart.
  • The palm’s force swept across the battlefield, blasting the fighters away and injuring Liu Ming, who spat out black blood.

Ch. 2485This Kind of Freaking Monster, What Is He?!

Xu Yi fought Liu Ming with his enhanced Heaven-Covering Hand and Bixiu Sword, then revealed his own powerful corpse and defeated Liu Ming’s Middle Corpse with Huang Mei’s help. Liu Ming was left stunned as his battle ended in defeat.

  • Tong Fang recognized Xu Yi’s enhanced Heaven-Covering Hand, while Zhu Huang sided with Xu Yi and Liu Ming sent his Yin Ba after him.
  • Xu Yi’s Heaven-Covering Hand clashed with Liu Ming’s Azure Dragon Pearl, which his Bixiu Sword managed to hold off.
  • Liu Ming revealed his Middle Corpse Fifth Grade and attacked Xu Yi, who summoned a jade-skinned corpse of his own.
  • Xu Yi’s corpse struck Liu Ming’s corpse and scattered it, sending its corpse energy toward the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave.
  • Huang Mei emerged from the cave, scattered Liu Ming’s corpse again, and swallowed its corpse energy before Xu Yi stopped it.
  • Liu Ming stared in disbelief as the battle ended and he realized Xu Yi’s corpse had overpowered his own.

Ch. 2486Confidence

Xu Yi learned that the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit was a fabrication and had Liu Ming kill the four Evil Lords who had plotted against him, while Huang Mei devoured their corpse aura. After searching Liu Ming's possessions, Xu Yi returned his corpse core in exchange for the promise of the sacred fruit, leaving Liu Ming to reveal what he knew.

  • Liu Ming killed Zhu Huang, and Huang Mei devoured the corpse aura Zhu Huang left behind.
  • Qian Mu and the other Evil Lords urged Xu Yi to kill Liu Ming, but Xu Yi revealed that their promised Purple Radiance Pill Fruit was likely a lie and ordered Liu Ming to deal with the four men.
  • Liu Ming smashed the four Evil Lords, while Huang Mei consumed their corpse aura; Xu Yi reassured Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei that they were safe.
  • Xu Yi searched Liu Ming's Starry Sky Ring and found no valuable secret, then learned Liu Ming would provide the sacred fruit if Xu Yi returned his corpse core.
  • Xu Yi returned Liu Ming's corpse core, trusting he could seize it again, and demanded that Liu Ming reveal the treasure's whereabouts.

Ch. 2487Five Blessings Longevity Fruit

Xu Yi discovered five Five Blessings Longevity Fruits and used one to restore his lost lifespan. Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei offered to help him enter the Two-Forget Peak Dojo without the Trial Grand Competition in exchange for the return of their corpse cores, and the chapter ended with Xu Yi resting peacefully at Bamboo Manor.

  • Liu Ming revealed that the Thunder True Intent had balanced the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land and might have produced Five Blessings Longevity Fruit.
  • Liu Ming uncovered five fruits from a vast underground vine, and Xu Yi took them.
  • Xu Yi returned to lecturing at Bamboo Manor and told Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei to stop seeking him out or asking about their corpse cores.
  • Tong Fang offered to help Xu Yi enter the Two-Forget Peak Dojo without the Trial Grand Competition, and Xu Yi agreed to return their corpse cores if they succeeded.
  • Xu Yi bathed, ate with Yan Zi, and dozed beneath the parasol tree in the courtyard.

Ch. 2488A Slipup

Xu Yi impressed Song Zheng Yi by solving a difficult numerology problem, but Song chose to wait two years before taking him as a disciple. Xu Yi accepted the delay, accumulated over ten thousand merit points, and entered seclusion.

  • Xu Yi solved Song Zheng Yi’s Three Luminaries Astrology problem and received two Black Origin Beads, but Song left without offering him a place in the dojo.
  • Song Zheng Yi praised Xu Yi to Han Bing Qian and said he would take him under his wing before the Grand Competition in two years.
  • Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei worried over Song’s decision, while Xu Yi told them he would prepare for the competition and rely on his own abilities.
  • Xu Yi returned to lecturing, tending spirit fields, and studying until his lecture tablet held more than ten thousand merit points.
  • Xu Yi posted a notice at the Preaching Pavilion and went into seclusion.

Ch. 2489A New Direction

After a hundred days in seclusion, Xu Yi emerged with a deeper hunger to study numerology and resumed his quiet life with Yan Zi. As Biyou Academy filled with contenders preparing for the Trial Grand Competition, he watched their fights and wondered how powerful a magical treasure could be.

  • Xu Yi used new mathematical tools to solve most of the obscure numerological problems in his collection and grew eager to study at Two Forget Peak.
  • Xu Yi ended his hundred-day seclusion, and Yan Zi welcomed him before they planned to go fishing.
  • Xu Yi urged Yan Zi to temper her Wish Pearls again and gave her the merit points he had earned from lecturing.
  • Xu Yi returned to farming spirit rice and studying as Yan Zi went into seclusion.
  • Xu Yi noticed new arrivals and daily fights at Biyou Academy as contenders gathered for the Trial Grand Competition, then wondered about the power of magical treasures.

Ch. 2490On the Theory of Magical Treasures

Xu Yi hired Chen Daozi to teach him the basics of artifact refining and learned that heavenly spirits were the key to magical treasures. After breaking down several treasures and the Bixiu Sword with his Four-Colored Seal, Xu Yi had found faint strands in the treasures and asked Chen Daozi about a weapon that rivaled a magical treasure without heavenly spirits.

  • Xu Yi chose Chen Daozi as his artifact-refining lecturer and offered him a Black Origin Bead for a systematic introduction to the subject.
  • Chen Daozi accepted Xu Yi's request, and Xu Yi hosted him at Heaven Wind Tower while asking questions about artifact refining.
  • Chen Daozi explained that magical treasures depended on heavenly spirits, which he understood as rare forms of change and energy hidden within all things.
  • Xu Yi asked Chen Daozi about a weapon that could rival a magical treasure without heavenly spirits, referring to his Bixiu Sword.
  • Xu Yi recalled that his Four-Colored Seal had broken down the Five Gloomy Swords, the golden bead, and the Bixiu Sword, revealing faint strands in the first treasures.

Ch. 2491Blushing

Xu Yi learned how magical treasures and formation diagrams worked from Chen Daozi, then returned to Bamboo Manor and reunited with Shi Erli. The chapter ended with Xu Yi showing Shi Erli the precious medicines he had brought back from the Kunlun Ruins.

  • Chen Daozi explained that high-quality magical artifacts could become powerful spirit artifacts and that formation diagrams helped magical treasures contain aggregated heavenly spirits.
  • Xu Yi thanked Chen Daozi, parted ways with him, and brought food for Yan Zi before returning to Bamboo Manor.
  • Shi Erli teased Xu Yi about his feelings for Yan Zi, making Xu Yi blush, then said he had come on business.
  • Xu Yi offered Shi Erli a Big Dipper Seven Star Grass, but Shi Erli initially refused it because it was too valuable.
  • Xu Yi revealed that he had made a fortune in the Kunlun Ruins and displayed several more precious medicines, leaving Shi Erli amazed.

Ch. 2492Fine Jade

Shi Erli warned Xu Yi to avoid the Trial Grand Competition, but Xu Yi revealed he had reached the Corpse Slaying Realm and chose to compete rather than accept Two Forget Peak’s invitation. Song Zheng Yi learned of Xu Yi’s refusal and new cultivation, then concluded another academy must be courting him and vowed to bring him into Two Forget Peak.

  • Shi Erli took Xu Yi’s Big Dipper Seven Star Grass and warned him that the Trial Grand Competition would be unusually dangerous, advising him to stay out of it.
  • Xu Yi revealed that he had become a Corpse, shocking Shi Erli, who left Bamboo Manor.
  • Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei offered Xu Yi Two Forget Peak’s invitation, but Xu Yi declined and said he would enter the competition.
  • Song Zheng Yi confronted the three men over Xu Yi’s refusal, and Han Bing Qian told him that Xu Yi had reached the Corpse Slaying Realm.
  • Han Bing Qian suggested another academy had offered Xu Yi better terms, and Song Zheng Yi vowed to bring Xu Yi to Two Forget Peak himself.

Ch. 2493Raising the Price

Song Zheng Yi and Han Bing Qian tried to bring Xu Yi into Two Forget Peak, while Xu Yi reconsidered his refusal after recognizing Han Bing Qian as a potential threat. Xu Yi began negotiating for better terms, and Song Zheng Yi invited him to name what another dojo had offered.

  • Song Zheng Yi decided Xu Yi should join Two Forget Peak, while Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei warned that forcing him could provoke a fight.
  • Tong Fang explained Xu Yi's fierce nature and persuaded Song Zheng Yi to send the three of them to negotiate instead of acting by force.
  • Xu Yi learned Han Bing Qian's plan and suspected he was the Han family member Shi Erli had warned him about, so he reconsidered joining Two Forget Peak to secure benefits in advance.
  • Xu Yi told Tong Fang he was interested in Two Forget Peak but hinted that he expected better terms, prompting Tong Fang to contact Song Zheng Yi.
  • Song Zheng Yi appeared through the Ruyi Pearl, praised Xu Yi's mathematical talent, and asked what temptation another dojo had offered him.

Ch. 2494Skin Appearance Sutra

Xu Yi joined Two Forget Peak and received its Skin Appearance Sutra, then turned his attention to studying artifact refining. His visit from Xiong Bei Ming was interrupted by Liu Wuzhou and Steward Hong Huang, who demanded that Xu Yi hand over the fugitive slave.

  • Xu Yi asked Song Zheng Yi for the Skin Appearance Sutra, and Song Zheng Yi granted it to him along with a Two Forget Peak token.
  • Xu Yi officially joined Two Forget Peak, then spent two days studying artifact refining before deciding to seek out Chen Daozi.
  • Xiong Bei Ming arrived at Bamboo Manor and urgently asked Xu Yi to speak inside, but Liu Wuzhou and two others surrounded them.
  • Xu Yi shattered Liu Wuzhou's attack and declared that Xiong Bei Ming was his sworn brother, not a fugitive slave.
  • Hong Huang identified himself as a steward of the Council of Affairs and warned Xu Yi not to interfere, while Liu Wuzhou revealed that Xiong Bei Ming belonged to the Pang Family.

Ch. 2495A Surge of Fury

Xu Yi killed Liu Wuzhou and Brother Tie after learning they served Pang Qingyun, then heard Xiong Bei Ming explain that Xuan Lengyan had been imprisoned after resisting Pang’s advances. Xiong Bei Ming revealed that her life was not immediately at risk, but she was suffering in Ghost Cry Underworld Prison, and Xu Yi was left with the knowledge of her plight.

  • Hong Huang warned Xu Yi that Liu Wuzhou and Brother Tie belonged to the Pang family, but Xu Yi attacked and killed them both, absorbing their corpse aura.
  • Xu Yi asked Hong Huang to delay spreading news of the killings, then brought Xiong Bei Ming into Bamboo Manor to speak privately.
  • Xiong Bei Ming explained that the Thearch Sect had sought Xuan Lengyan’s bone flute and had given her an official post after she handed it over.
  • Xiong Bei Ming told Xu Yi that Pang Qingyun harassed Xuan Lengyan until she disfigured herself with poison, after which Pang had her imprisoned in Ghost Cry Underworld Prison.
  • Xiong Bei Ming revealed that Ning Wuque and Gold Corpse Old Cao had been placed in the Criminal Justice Temple and could help keep Xuan Lengyan alive, while he had infiltrated Pang Qingyun’s party to find Xu Yi.
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