Shui Yuechu, Jing Tian, Xu Changqing, and the others had spared no effort in their battle against the Evil Sword Immortal.
In the end, they rescued everyone who had been trapped. Jing Tian fully regained Fei Peng's cultivation, and the Demon Sword merged with the Demon-Suppressing Sword.
The difference was that there was no longer anyone who needed to be sacrificed to forge the sword, because Shi Yongheng himself was a grandmaster artificer.
Everyone poured their true essence into Jing Tian's body, temporarily raising his power to the level of a Divine Emperor. Working in tandem with the swallowed Xu Changqing, they slew the Evil Sword Immortal, bringing him to an end.
Not long after the Evil Sword Immortal's destruction, the Five Elders of Shushan passed away. Shi Yongheng sent their souls into reincarnation within the bell, beginning their next lives.
As for Xu Changqing, his three lifetimes of love with Zixuan finally came to an end, and he inherited the position of Shushan's sect master.
He had not wanted it, but Shushan's rules forbade the acceptance of female disciples to begin with. Since an unscrupulous patriarch had already opened a back door and forcibly shoved one in, what rules would there be left to speak of if she were to inherit the sect master position as well?
Everyone was happy, except Chonglou. During this process, he could not obtain Zixuan's love and became a drunkard who drowned his sorrows in wine.
Fuzi set out to travel the world in search of the path ahead, while Shi Yongheng returned to Yuzhou to continue being its city lord.
Not long after Shui Yuechu broke through to the Immortal Realm, she accidentally fell into a vortex while traveling.
Naturally, Shi Yongheng was behind it. As his daughter, even if she could not