Recaps

Shen Hui defeated the demonic lotus at Seed-Jade Nunnery, then investigated a village poisoning and traced it to a Poisonbird. He found a potential home for Clear Wind Temple in a floating mountain and learned from Bixi how it had risen above the valley.

• Shen Hui uncovered the Sinful Lotus’s scheme at Seed-Jade Nunnery, destroyed its seeds across Great Peace County, and received payment from the county magistrate.
• Embracing Snow formed her Golden Core, and Shen Hui’s group discovered that a Yunri Poisonbird had poisoned nearby villages, and Shen Hui killed it and followed clues toward Yin Xie.
• Shen Hui met Daoist Yun Su and Green Bamboo at Purple Bamboo Temple, frightened off a Tiger Demon, and accepted directions to a spirit mountain while Yun Su and Green Bamboo chose to stay behind.
• Shen Hui trained Hu Cheng in sword forms as the group traveled to a mountain suspended above a chasm, which Shen Hui judged suitable for Clear Wind Temple.
• Shen Hui descended into the valley and found a Bixi statue, which explained that a Rogue Cultivator’s thousand years of contemplation had drawn the mountain up from the earth’s veins.