Within Great Wheel Temple, Dragon-Elephant Sage Buddha and Ying Wuji schemed in secret, discussing how to deal with He Ping. Meanwhile, aside from the Great Xiye Kingdom, Golden Lotus Holy Mother—rescued by Elder Zhuo, the mysterious immortal-god expert of the Dragon Worship Sect—was also filled with malice toward He Ping.
In the far north, upon an icy plain, a woman in white knelt atop a frozen lake.
This woman was Golden Lotus Holy Mother. After she and Gongyang Wuwang had fought He Ping and been defeated, the physical body they had jointly condensed had collapsed, leaving only a single Primordial Spirit still intact.
At the critical moment, she had been rescued by an immortal-god-level expert using immense magic power. As her Primordial Spirit Dharma Body had suffered severe damage, she had no choice but to temporarily use the body of a shepherd's daughter from the Hanxia Grassland as the "dwelling" for her fleshly body.
After that battle, Golden Lotus Holy Mother had not only lost her physical body and suffered damage to her Dharma Body, with her cultivation and magic power nearly regressing, but had also lost her Dao companion of many years, Gongyang Wuwang, Daoist Desire Evil. For this reason, she had formed a deep and bitter hatred toward He Ping, wishing she could devour his flesh and drink his blood.
"Elder Zhuo, your great kindness is beyond this junior's ability to repay... However, Golden Lotus has one more matter for which I beg the elder's aid!"
Kneeling on the ice, she stared fixedly into the frozen waters. Through her gaze, one could see an incomparably massive figure within the lake. It possessed a winding body covered in scales, dragon-like yet serpent-like in form, rising and falling beneath the ice like a mountain range. One could not see the