Chapter Summaries

Lin Chang'an endured the ascension tribulation and entered the Spirit Realm, where he reunited with his allies and began planning to build an independent force under the Ice God Palace. The Ice God Palace accepted his affiliation, but its elders dismissed the arrival of a single Ascension Cultivator as insignificant.

• Lin Chang'an activated the Three Sects' array, survived the ascension tribulation, and entered the spatial passage after secretly using his Teleportation Token to protect his companions.
• Lin Chang'an emerged at the Ascension Platform in Cold Wind City on the North Cold Continent, where Bing Yun and White Bone Superior welcomed him and kept news of his arrival confidential.
• Lin Chang'an reunited with the Sword Servant, Jin Feng, and his avatar, then learned about the Spirit Realm's conflict and the Glazed Saintess's bounty on him.
• Lin Chang'an planned to recruit future Ascension Cultivators into a border force affiliated with the Ice God Palace, and arranged to use a supposed Dust-Extinguishing Pill to secure concessions.
• White Bone Superior told True Lord Yunyi that Lin Chang'an had joined the Ice God Palace under favorable terms, and the elders agreed that one Ascension Cultivator posed little threat to the balance of power.

Lin Chang'an and Wild Crane Wanderer united with Old Devil Hehuan and Evil Blade Patriarch after all four ascended to the North Cold Continent, then negotiated with True Lord Yunyi and White Bone Superior to join the Ice God Palace as Guest Elders in exchange for resources. The four secured a mutual-aid pact, while the six Spirit Transformation cultivators smiled through a banquet and privately schemed against one another.

• The Glazed Saintess learned that Lin Chang'an had allied with White Bone Superior and the Ice God Palace, and resented White Bone Superior for disrupting her prospects.
• True Lord Yunyi learned that four cultivators from the same Lower Realm would ascend, and discussed recruiting them with True Lord Liehuo.
• Lin Chang'an and Wild Crane Wanderer agreed to negotiate together, then welcomed Old Devil Hehuan and Evil Blade Patriarch after they ascended three months later.
• True Lord Yunyi and White Bone Superior received the four ascension cultivators, who requested cultivation inheritances and high-grade resources in return for aiding the Ice God Palace in its war.
• The four agreed to serve as Ice God Palace Guest Elders and help each other in times of trouble, while White Bone Superior and True Lord Yunyi privately tried to influence the group.
• At the banquet, the six Spirit Transformation cultivators exchanged polite words while privately sowing distrust and pursuing their own interests, and Lin Chang'an secured a foothold in the Spirit Realm.

Lin Chang'an settled into the Spirit Realm, learned that the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine had produced a Body Refining method, and accepted Ice God Palace's mission to kill a Vajra Temple cultivator. Ice God Palace courted him by gifting Fairy Ice Butterfly a Fifth-Rank Ice Soul, and Lin Chang'an prepared to depart after helping her cultivate.

• Lin Chang'an examined the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine's new Body Refining Chapter and learned that his Asura Aspect could grow stronger through Blood Fiend Aura, Essence Blood, and Killing Intent.
• Fairy Ice Butterfly learned from Fairy Bing Yun about the Spirit Realm's vastness and Ice God Palace's rewards for cultivators who joined its border war.
• Lin Chang'an revealed his Small Teleportation Token to the other Ascension Cultivators, and the four accepted a mission to kill Chai Sikong of Vajra Temple's Fahua Altar.
• True Lord Yunyi assessed the four cultivators' needs and sent Lin Chang'an a Fifth-Rank Ice Soul as a gift for Fairy Ice Butterfly.
• Lin Chang'an and Fairy Ice Butterfly discussed keeping their allies' strength discreet, then cultivated the Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Technique before Lin Chang'an prepared to leave.

Lin Chang'an and his allies planned to seize Heavenly Treasure City from Vajra Temple and formed an alliance with White Bone Old Devil and Jin Feng. They returned to the city and prepared to attack its formation and guardians, with Lin Chang'an secretly controlling several members of the alliance through his identities and allies.

• Wild Crane Wanderer proposed that the group claim the lands around Heavenly Treasure City instead of risking their lives indefinitely on Ice God Palace missions, and Lin Chang'an agreed to explore the plan.
• True Lord Yunyi supplied Lin Chang'an with formation materials, and the four ascended cultivators met White Bone Old Devil, who agreed to join them and proposed a pact to let the first to reach Mid-Stage Spirit Transformation lead the alliance.
• Lin Chang'an planned to use Jin Feng as a disguised ally of White Bone Old Devil, and Jin Feng later joined the group at Heavenly Treasure City as a Spirit Transformation Great Demon.
• Lin Chang'an explained that he could suppress the city's formation for two hours and marked its twelve key nodes for the others to destroy.
• Wild Crane Wanderer, Evil Blade Patriarch, Old Devil Hehuan, White Bone Old Devil, and Jin Feng assigned themselves roles in drawing out or holding off the city's guardians, then Jin Feng led the group into Heavenly Treasure City.

Wild Crane Wanderer’s staged dispute at the Golden Treasure Pavilion drew Ning out and let the group ambush the Vajra Temple’s Spirit Transformation cultivators. Lin Chang’an helped kill Ning after he fled, while five allies attacked Chai Sikong in Heavenly Treasure City, leaving the takeover and the brewing conflict between the Vajra Temple and the Ice God Palace unresolved.

• Wild Crane Wanderer provoked a fight at the Golden Treasure Pavilion, and Old Devil Hehuan’s magic made one of its cultivators attack him in front of the city.
• Ning arrived, but the Mountain Protection Formation failed to obey him; the Evil Blade Patriarch struck, and Wild Crane Wanderer wounded Ning with a poisoned needle as he fled.
• Jin Feng, the White Bone Old Devil, Wild Crane Wanderer, the Evil Blade Patriarch, and Old Devil Hehuan ambushed Chai Sikong outside his cave residence.
• Lin Chang’an and the Sword Servant intercepted Ning beyond the city, and Lin Chang’an killed him with the Sun-Piercing Divine Sword and Sun Essence Fire.
• Lin Chang’an returned toward Heavenly Treasure City after erasing their traces, while the five allies continued fighting Chai Sikong.

Lin Chang'an and five allies seized Heavenly Treasure City, renamed it Blazing Snow City, and began building a foothold while preparing for the Vajra Temple's retaliation. Rumors about the four Ascension Cultivators and an ancient treasure spread across the Spirit Realm, drawing attention away from Lin Chang'an and the hidden Profound Heaven Immortal Vine.

• Lin Chang'an returned to Heavenly Treasure City after uniting the Fusang Divine Trees and strengthening the Sun-Piercing Divine Swords.
• White Bone Old Devil and the other Spirit Transformation Cultivators killed Chai Sikong, captured his Primordial Spirit, and divided the spoils.
• The six Spirit Transformation Cultivators took Heavenly Treasure City, demanded submission from its cultivators, and renamed it Blazing Snow City.
• Lin Chang'an proposed constructing a Teleportation Array and began reinforcing the city's Mountain Protection Formation as the group prepared for a Vajra Temple attack.
• True Lord Yunyi pledged Ice God Palace's support, while Zen Master Mingtai and the Glazed Saintess investigated the fallen cultivators and the four Ascension Cultivators.
• Rumors about an ancient treasure and the Ascension Cultivators spread across North Cold Continent, diverting attention from Lin Chang'an and the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine.

Lin Chang'an completed the Teleportation Array in Blazing Snow City, helping his allies secure their territory while tensions between the Ice God Palace and Vajra Temple temporarily eased. Back in Cold Wind City, he supported Bing Yun’s plans and prepared Fairy Ice Butterfly to attempt Spirit Transformation, leaving her in life-or-death seclusion.

• Lin Chang'an completed the Teleportation Array, and the six Spirit Transformation cultivators divided Blazing Snow City's Spirit Vein territory while planning to hold the city.
• Lin Chang'an returned to Cold Wind City, where Bing Yun proposed linking its interests with Blazing Snow City's, and White Bone Superior gave her repaired Ancient Treasures and Mysterious Yin Demonic Flame Pearls.
• Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng discussed the spoils from the slain monk surnamed Ning and planned to sell marked items at the Bingjin Mountain Market to deepen suspicion between the Vajra Temple and Ice God Palace.
• Lin Chang'an resolved to seek treasures for Fifth-Rank Body Refining, then gave Fairy Ice Butterfly a Spirit Transformation Pill and set up a protective formation for her seclusion.
• Fairy Ice Butterfly entered life-or-death seclusion to pursue Spirit Transformation, while Lin Chang'an stayed outside to guard her and allies sent their support.

Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng visited the Peacock Princess in Bingjin Mountain Market to trade Buddhist and Taoist teachings for spiritual treasures. They left with two Bone-Congealing Jade Marrow Fruits and planned to return after Lin Chang'an advanced his cultivation.

• Jin Feng told Lin Chang'an that Demon Monarch Feiyu and the Peacock Princess possessed spiritual items that could strengthen blood and vitality, and Lin Chang'an chose to approach the Peacock Princess.
• The Peacock Princess agreed to meet Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng, then revealed that Buddhist and Taoist methods helped with a seal in her bloodline but might not resolve it before her father Golden Peng died.
• Lin Chang'an presented Buddhist scriptures, techniques, and teachings to the Peacock Princess, who offered him two Bone-Congealing Jade Marrow Fruits in exchange.
• Lin Chang'an spent several days discussing Buddhist and Taoist teachings with the Peacock Princess, and she let him take both spiritual fruits.
• Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng left the pavilion planning to pursue further trades, while Lin Chang'an resolved to break through to Fifth-Rank Body Refining and secretly use the White Bone Superior identity for future raids.

After breaking through to Fifth-Rank Body Refining in the Storm Mountain Range, Lin Chang'an defeated two Spirit Transformation Yin Spirit Beast Kings who tried to ambush him and plundered their lairs. He returned to Blazing Snow City as war between Vajra Temple and Ice God Palace escalated, while Green Ox remained in seclusion preparing to break through.

• Jin Feng gave Green Ox medicinal pills from Lin Chang'an and urged him to prepare for a Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Lin Chang'an endured his Body Refining tribulation with the Sun-Piercing Divine Swords, then lured two Spirit Transformation Yin Spirit Beast Kings into attacking him.
• Lin Chang'an used his Fire Dragon Ring, Sun-Piercing Divine Swords, and Asura Aspect to defeat the Yin Spirit Beast Kings, while the Sword Servant killed one fleeing Split Soul.
• Lin Chang'an and the Sword Servant collected the spoils and cleared out the Yin Spirit Beast Kings' lairs before returning to Blazing Snow City a month later.
• Jin Feng told Lin Chang'an that Fairy Ice Butterfly remained in seclusion and Green Ox had also begun preparing for a breakthrough.
• Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng set out after hearing that Vajra Temple, aided by Pure Heart Sect, was moving to suppress Ice God Palace and that fighting along the border had become war.

Lin Chang'an agreed to join the war against the Vajra Temple for promised rewards but stayed behind to gather materials while the fighting continued. Fairy Ice Butterfly survived her tribulation and advanced to Spirit Transformation, while the Vajra Temple's leaders prepared a new offensive against the Ice God Palace.

• True Lord Yunyi asked the guest elders to fight for the Ice God Palace, and Lin Chang'an agreed after hearing the offer of Fire-Origin Spirit Stones.
• Lin Chang'an stayed away from the front line for three years, trading materials through the Teleportation Arrays while the war remained contained.
• Fairy Ice Butterfly used the Cold Marrow Jade Crystal Tree, her treasures, and the Spirit-Purifying Pill to endure her tribulation and advance to Spirit Transformation.
• Ice God Palace celebrated Fairy Ice Butterfly's advancement, and news of it boosted morale at the front lines.
• The Glazed Saintess learned that the White Bone Old Devil remained in the rear as Vajra Temple's Spirit Transformation Cultivators planned to seize a third of the contested Spirit Veins.

After Fairy Ice Butterfly advanced to Spirit Transformation, she and Lin Chang'an traveled to the front with their allies, where they fought the Vajra Temple. The Glazed Saintess used the Glazed Light-Fixing Mirror to suppress Wild Crane Wanderer, Old Devil Hehuan, and the Evil Blade Patriarch, until Lin Chang'an ambushed her with a Crimson Sword Aura.

• Cultivators flocked to Cold Wind City to seek the fortune they believed had accompanied its recent Spirit Transformation breakthroughs, while True Lord Yunyi and Lin Chang'an secretly helped cultivators advance for profit.
• Fairy Ice Butterfly refined the Ice Crystal Spirit Pearl Lin Chang'an had given her, then decided they would join the fighting at the front.
• Lin Chang'an and Fairy Ice Butterfly traveled to the front with pledged cultivators, while the White Bone Old Devil and Jin Feng remained in Blazing Snow City and True Lord Yunyi stood ready to reinforce them.
• On the battlefield, Evil Blade Patriarch confronted Wild Crane Wanderer about his stolen Soul-Refining Banner, and Wild Crane Wanderer admitted he had taken it from the Six Demonic Sects in the Lower Realm.
• The Glazed Saintess arrived with the Radiance-Stopping Glazed Light Mirror and used its beam to suppress Wild Crane Wanderer, Old Devil Hehuan, and Evil Blade Patriarch.
• Wild Crane Wanderer called for Lin Chang'an to counter the mirror as Lin Chang'an launched a Crimson Sword Aura at the Glazed Saintess.

Lin Chang'an and Fairy Ice Butterfly joined the defense of Ice God Palace and clashed with Vajra Temple’s Spirit Transformation Cultivators. After the battle ended without serious casualties, Lin Chang'an considered secretly hunting Spirit Transformation Cultivators to obtain materials he needed.

• Lin Chang'an ambushed the Glazed Saintess with his sword and Fire Dragon Ring, revealing the treasure and claiming he had obtained it from a great demon in the Demon Sealing Abyss.
• The Glazed Saintess used an icy pearl to suppress Lin Chang'an’s flames, while the two sides’ Spirit Transformation Cultivators entered a chaotic melee.
• Red Copper Touzhang struck Lin Chang'an and knocked away the Fire Dragon Ring, but Fairy Ice Butterfly intervened with an Ice Arrow, and the two newcomers later fought together using their Yin-Yang Combined Attack Secret Art.
• The cultivators withdrew to the defended Market after the battle, where Wild Crane Wanderer and the others welcomed Lin Chang'an and Fairy Ice Butterfly and explained the enemy’s strength and Ice God Palace’s public bounties.
• Lin Chang'an considered acting secretly to kill a Spirit Transformation Cultivator and trade for the two remaining materials he needed to refine the Heavenly Yin Demonic Corpse.

During forty years of war between the Ice God Palace and the Vajra Temple, Lin Chang'an advanced his cultivation and crafts while gathering resources. After Fairy Ice Butterfly completed her Dust-Extinguishing Tribulation, Lin Chang'an decided to hunt a Spirit Transformation Cultivator and called Jin Feng to help.

• Lin Chang'an and Fairy Ice Butterfly received spiritual items from Heavenly Wind, then learned the front would likely remain locked in battle for a century as they pursued Dust-Cleansing Pills.
• Forty years passed as Lin Chang'an fought at the front, advanced his cultivation, completed the Refining Method Chapter, and reached Fifth-Rank mastery in puppetry and Artifact Refining.
• Lin Chang'an explained that he had completed his own Dust-Extinguishing Tribulation three years earlier as Fairy Ice Butterfly underwent hers.
• Old Devil Hehuan continued advancing her cultivation by draining captured cultivators and sharing a tender bond with Tian Zheng.
• Lin Chang'an promised Jin Feng he would reforge her Six Harmonies Golden Light Mirror, then revealed his plan to kill a Spirit Transformation Cultivator and claim the Ice God Palace's reward.
• Jin Feng asked Lin Chang'an to help Green Ox, whose Spirit Transformation breakthrough had failed, and Lin Chang'an agreed to bring him to the front line.

Lin Chang'an assassinated the Zhang Family's Spirit Transformation cultivator while secretly investigating him, then uncovered evidence of a hidden Barbarian Race plot to provoke war between the Vajra Temple and Ice God Palace. He altered the evidence to manipulate both sides and buy time, while the plot's leader, Red Copper Touzhang, realized his operative had been killed.

• Fairy Ice Butterfly survived the Dust-Extinguishing Tribulation, and Lin Chang'an later left Winter City with Jin Feng to target a Zhang Family Spirit Transformation cultivator at a Vajra Temple border outpost.
• Lin Chang'an disguised himself as a Zhang Family Nascent Soul cultivator and entered the Zhang Family ancestor's residence with Jin Feng, who posed as a Rogue Cultivator offering Geng Essence.
• Lin Chang'an and Jin Feng ambushed the Zhang Family ancestor, but a restriction in his Primordial Spirit triggered an explosion that destroyed his body and soul and forced them to flee.
• Lin Chang'an used the ancestor's essence blood to open a restricted Jade Slip and discovered that the Zhang Family was secretly serving a powerful force that sought to inflame conflict between the Vajra Temple and Ice God Palace.
• Lin Chang'an altered the Jade Slip to exaggerate the threat and frame the Pure Heart Sect, intending to trade the information to both sides for resources and a pause in the fighting.
• Red Copper Touzhang learned that the Zhang Family operative had died and reflected on his mission to weaken the North Cold Continent before the Barbarian Race invaded.

Lin Chang'an disguised himself to sell the Glazed Saintess and Ice God Palace intelligence tied to Zhang's death, earning valuable resources and prompting both sides to investigate the Barbarian Race script. As Vajra Temple and Ice God Palace moved toward peace talks, Lin Chang'an planned his next trip to Bingjin Mountain Market and considered sharing a hidden route with other cultivators.

• Lin Chang'an met the Glazed Saintess and sold her a Jade Slip bearing an unfamiliar script, claiming Zhang had secretly met a mysterious outsider before his death.
• The Glazed Saintess paid Lin Chang'an two pieces of Fifth-Rank Vajra Stone and one hundred sixty Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the Jade Slip and his account.
• Lin Chang'an sent a Puppet to Heavenly Monarch Heavenly Wind, traded the assassinated cultivator's possessions and the same intelligence for rare materials, and received a Sound Transmission Jade Talisman.
• Vajra Temple and Ice God Palace identified the script as belonging to the Barbarian Race, suspected outside forces, and began seeking peace talks to limit the fighting.
• Lin Chang'an considered visiting Bingjin Mountain Market for resources and decided to involve Wild Crane and others in the secret of a Teleportation Array.

As the war between Ice God Palace and Vajra Temple cooled, Lin Chang'an spent twenty years cultivating and reforging Jin Feng’s treasure before proposing a Teleportation Array linking Blazing Snow City to the resource-rich Bingjin Mountain Range. Ice God Palace’s True Lord Yunyi agreed to let them use the Sect’s array at Bingjin Mountain Market, leaving Lin Chang'an and his companions with a new route to resources and an escape from their dependence on the palace.

• Lin Chang'an set aside materials to reforge Jin Feng’s Six Harmonies Golden Light Mirror and hoped the major powers’ war would cool before his duties grew more dangerous.
• Red Copper Touzhang blamed the assassination of Zhang for spoiling his plans, then considered using the Demon Race and borrowed blades to reignite conflict.
• Twenty years later, Lin Chang'an had advanced his cultivation and become a Fifth-Rank Talisman Master, while his reforged mirror let Jin Feng conceal the source of the Golden Light Divine Flame.
• Before rotating off the front lines, Lin Chang'an proposed that Fairy Ice Butterfly, Wild Crane Wanderer, Evil Blade Patriarch, and Old Devil Hehuan help build a Teleportation Array to reach the Bingjin Mountain Range and obtain resources.
• Lin Chang'an and his companions returned toward Blazing Snow City with their surviving followers, and Lin Chang'an asked True Lord Yunyi to connect their array to Ice God Palace’s Teleportation Array at Bingjin Mountain Market.
• True Lord Yunyi agreed to report the request, while Lin Chang'an warned that the Glazed Saintess was formidable and that he and Fairy Ice Butterfly needed their Combined Strike Secret Art to match her.

Lin Chang'an completed a hidden teleportation route, spent four years refining the Heavenly Yin Demonic Corpse into an External Incarnation, and traveled to Bingjin Mountain Market. There, he visited the Peacock Princess to seek a cultivation method for the Green-Horned Ox, revealing that he was an Ascension Cultivator while keeping the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine secret.

• Lin Chang'an completed the Teleportation Array in Blazing Snow City and persuaded the others to fund a second, secret escape route from Bingjin Mountain.
• Lin Chang'an stayed behind to refine the Heavenly Yin Demonic Corpse, and after four years he erased its consciousness and took control of its body with a split-off wisp of his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Chang'an gave Fairy Ice Butterfly, Jin Feng, and Senior Sister God-Restricting Tablets so they could seal the Demon Corpse if it developed a consciousness of its own.
• Lin Chang'an traveled to Bingjin Mountain Market with the Green-Horned Ox, while Jin Feng went off to find Wild Crane Wanderer and explore the Market.
• Lin Chang'an brought Buddhist scriptures to the Peacock Princess and asked the Demon Race for an opportunity to obtain a cultivation method for the Green-Horned Ox.
• The Peacock Princess received Lin Chang'an and learned that he was an Ascension Cultivator, while he kept the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine concealed.

Lin Chang'an traded Buddhist and Daoist scriptures to Peacock Princess for the first layer of the Ox Demon Great Strength Art, then gathered his allies to visit the Demon Market and find materials for Green-Horned Ox's breakthrough. The group entered the market, and Lin Chang'an and Green Ox arrived at the Ten Thousand Demons Tower to search for bloodline materials.

• Peacock Princess offered Lin Chang'an three Spirit Transformation techniques suited to Green-Horned Ox and gave him the first layer of the Ox Demon Great Strength Art in exchange for his scriptures.
• Peacock Princess gave Lin Chang'an a Jade Pendant that allowed him to trade at the Demon Market, and Lin Chang'an handed the new technique to Green-Horned Ox.
• Lin Chang'an invited Wild Crane Wanderer, Evil Blade Patriarch, Old Devil Hehuan, and Jin Feng to travel with him to the Demon Market and help find materials for Green-Horned Ox's breakthrough.
• After two months of travel, Lin Chang'an and the others entered the Demon Market, explored its bustling streets, and split up to browse.
• Lin Chang'an and Green Ox went to the Ten Thousand Demons Tower, a complex built atop the body of a slain Spirit Transformation Demon Lord, to search for materials bearing a Petrification bloodline.

Lin Chang'an traded a fifth-rank formation for rare petrifying treasures at the Ten Thousand Demons Tower and arranged future business with its steward. Later, Wild Crane Wanderer revealed a dangerous deal that could earn the group Return-Yang Water, and they agreed to investigate while waiting for Green Ox to advance.

• Lin Chang'an used the Peacock Princess's Jade Pendant to obtain a petrifying Demon Dragon's heart and a nine-thousand-year-old stone spirit flower in exchange for a fifth-rank formation, then left his contact talisman with the goat-demon steward.
• Lin Chang'an noticed Wild Crane Wanderer and the others acting separately at a restaurant and learned that a powerful demon was watching Wild Crane Wanderer.
• Wild Crane Wanderer told Lin Chang'an, Old Devil Hehuan, and Evil Blade Patriarch that a wounded descendant of the Spirit Treasure Mouse King had offered them access to Return-Yang Water if they helped him recover and escape.
• Lin Chang'an and the others questioned the demon's claims and learned that Demon Monarch Feiyu was pursuing the mouse demon for his Demon Core and other treasures.
• The group decided to investigate the opportunity, withdraw if the danger became too great, and wait for Green Ox to break through before acting.

Lin Chang'an and his allies planned to rescue the wounded Spirit Treasure Mouse King's descendant for Return-Yang Water while the Peacock Princess considered using the conflict to expose a hidden force. Lin Chang'an returned to Blazing Snow City to support the Green-Horned Ox's breakthrough, and seven years later a surge of Demon Sha Qi erupted above the city.

• Demon Monarch Feiyu ordered his subordinates to watch the Spirit Treasure Mouse King's descendant after Lin Chang'an and the others left the Demon Market.
• The Peacock Princess learned that Lin Chang'an had traded a formation for spirit objects and considered using the conflict involving Demon Monarch Qingyu to draw out the hidden force.
• Lin Chang'an and his companions agreed to gather healing materials and plan an escort for the mouse demon, while Lin Chang'an returned to Blazing Snow City.
• The Peacock Princess sent Lin Chang'an intelligence about Demon Monarch Feiyu and the mouse demon, and Lin Chang'an decided to focus first on the Green-Horned Ox's breakthrough.
• The Green-Horned Ox entered seclusion after receiving two spirit objects, while Lin Chang'an, Jin Feng, and Fairy Ice Butterfly discussed the mouse demon and its Return-Yang Water.
• Seven years passed as the others searched for healing materials and Lin Chang'an developed his forces, then Demon Sha Qi surged into the sky above Blazing Snow City.