Recaps

Yu Ci used the Equality Bead and illusionary techniques to disrupt Ancestor Gu Liang’s forces, but Ancestor Gu Liang contained his sword with the Twelve Golden Armored Generals. Yu Ci sent a piercing sound through the earth, drawing the pursuers toward the underground battle as someone shouted that a masterless sword belonged to the capable.

• Shao Changping raised his Celestial Being Barrier against the fire and smoke, but Yu Ci’s illusionary sword made the Longevity True Men believe they were under attack.
• Ancestor Gu Liang struck at Yu Ci’s sword shadow, then withdrew the Soul-Leaving Cauldron lid as the Equality Bead interfered with the magical treasures and Zi Wu Magnetic Mountain.
• Yu Ci used Rakshasa Illusory Power to evade the encirclement, while Ancestor Gu Liang summoned the Twelve Golden Armored Generals to trap and wear down his sword.
• Yu Ci sent a piercing, nonlethal shriek through the earth, alerting the pursuers beyond the talisman array.
• Tremors reached the underground space, and a pursuer called out, “A masterless sword belongs to the capable!”

Duanmu Senqiu and the Qionglu Society joined the struggle for the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, but Qu Cheng suspected their conspicuous attack was meant to distract the others. A massive collapse and illusionary arts threw the underground battlefield into chaos as someone charged through the confusion.

• Duanmu Senqiu emerged with the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden and greeted Ancestor Gu Liang on behalf of Elder Qiong.
• Shao Changping accused Duanmu Senqiu of breaking the Gu Liang lineage's talisman formation, and Duanmu claimed the crowd had forced him to burrow through.
• Duanmu announced that he would try to seize the Xuan Huang Killing Sword if it escaped Ancestor Gu Liang.
• Qu Cheng considered the Qionglu Society's unusual role as the spearhead and suspected Duanmu was drawing attention away from another attack.
• A huge section of earth collapsed above the underground space, and dust filled with illusionary arts disrupted the cultivators' senses.
• Duanmu shouted as someone charged through the confusion, plunging the situation into chaos.

Qu Cheng watched the Bag Bandit attack the Xuan Huang Killing Sword while Ancestor Gu Liang remained silent. The sword bypassed the Bag Bandit's defenses and killed him with a single strike.

• Qu Cheng observed the breached talisman array as the Bag Bandit used his Myriad Capture Bag to pull the Xuan Huang Killing Sword from the military formation.
• The Bag Bandit blasted a puppet with three Yang Guiding Pearls, triggering a scorching eruption from the magma lake and exposing Qu Cheng's hiding place.
• The heat damaged the Twelve Golden Armored Generals and weakened the formation, allowing the Bag Bandit to draw the sword closer while Ancestor Gu Liang watched him.
• The sword's strange realm briefly blanked the Bag Bandit's mind, then it slipped past the Myriad Capture Bag and bypassed his defenses.
• The Xuan Huang Killing Sword struck the Bag Bandit and decapitated him.

Qu Cheng studied the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s explosive strike and realized Duanmu Senqiu had used the chaos to steal Bag Bandit’s corpse, likely for the Azure Emperor’s Treasure Garden. As Qu Cheng reconsidered the Xiyu Alliance’s intentions and strengthened himself through the Heavenly Evasion Sect’s Melting Shadow Escape, he sensed the sword and crushed the rock wall beside him.

• Qu Cheng recognized that the Xuan Huang Killing Sword’s strike against Bag Bandit had gathered power like an assassin’s sword and could not be repeated immediately.
• Root-vines seized Bag Bandit’s corpse and carried it underground while Duanmu Senqiu laughed and escaped through the breach in the talisman formation.
• Qu Cheng realized Duanmu Senqiu’s true target had been Bag Bandit and suspected he needed a Void Artifact for the Azure Emperor’s Treasure Garden.
• Qu Cheng questioned the Heavenly Evasion Sect’s choice to come deal with Xue Pingzhi as he considered Duanmu Senqiu’s actions and the major sects’ ambiguous stance.
• Qu Cheng used Melting Shadow Escape to draw in and refine the surrounding cultivators’ power, then sensed the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and crushed the rock wall beside him.

Qu Cheng suspected Yu Ci was using the Heavenly Evasion Sect’s Melting Shadow Escape, while Yu Ci forged a protective boundary around the dormant Xuan Huang consciousness and the elevated Flying Immortal Sword Intent. Yu Ci began cutting through the talisman-array strata to escape, knowing Ancestor Gu Liang was watching his boundary closely.

• Qu Cheng sensed a resonance like the Heavenly Evasion Sect’s stealth arts and suspected Yu Ci was using Melting Shadow Escape.
• Yu Ci’s Flying Immortal Sword Intent rose to a new realm, while Xuan Huang broke the Three Suns Tribulation and fell dormant to digest the impact.
• Yu Ci formed a furnace boundary using the Furnace Heart Method to seal Xuan Huang’s new consciousness and the essence of the Flying Immortal Sword Intent.
• Yu Ci cut into the talisman-array strata through a gap Sen Qiu had opened, while Ancestor Gu Liang kept his will fixed on Yu Ci’s boundary.

Yu Ci kept Ancestor Gu Liang at bay after killing Bag Bandit, while Gu Liang tried to provoke Qu Cheng and the pursuing cultivators into testing Yu Ci’s sword. The seven Rogue Cultivator True Persons secretly agreed to bargain with Sword Discussion Pavilion and then attacked together as the Xuan Huang Killing Sword neared the edge of the talisman formation.

• Yu Ci maintained pressure on Ancestor Gu Liang and avoided using a second sword strike as he headed outward.
• Ancestor Gu Liang compared Yu Ci’s sword strike to Hui'an’s Unreturning Wheel, prompting Qu Cheng to realize Gu Liang was baiting others into testing the sword.
• Qu Cheng dropped away after realizing he had overlooked someone, while the damaged talisman formation slowed the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and let pursuers close in.
• Tong Xu and six other Rogue Cultivator True Persons secretly negotiated terms for a deal with Sword Discussion Pavilion rather than trying to claim the sword for themselves.
• As the pursuers neared the talisman formation’s core boundary, Tong Xu charged forward and the seven True Persons combined their strength to destroy the surrounding formations.

Tong Xu and six other Longevity True Men freed the Xuan Huang Killing Sword from the talisman arrays and pursued it, but Yu Nan intercepted them by attacking Wu Yao. Tong Xu and Wu Yao turned back to fight Yu Nan while the sword and the other five escaped, until a distant clang and the cry of “Two Forms Circle!” abruptly changed the battle.

• Tong Xu and the six allies broke the talisman arrays’ restraint, allowing the Xuan Huang Killing Sword to speed away as they followed it.
• Yu Nan used his Great Returning Heart Mirror to expose the pursuers’ weaknesses and attacked Wu Yao, separating him from the group.
• Tong Xu chose to turn back and rescue Wu Yao, telling the others to continue after the sword and reminding them about his shop.
• Wu Yao joined Tong Xu in attacking Yu Nan and demanded a ten percent stake in the shop as his reward.
• The Xuan Huang Killing Sword and the other five allies moved more than ten miles ahead while Tong Xu and Wu Yao fought Yu Nan.
• A clear clang from the sword’s direction froze the surrounding strata and injured Tong Xu and Wu Yao, while someone cried, “Two Forms Circle!”

Yu Nan crippled Wu Yao with the Blood Finger Heart Sword while Tong Xu carried him away, as Xue Pingzhi trapped the rogue cultivators and the Xuan Huang Killing Sword in her Two Forms Circle. Qu Cheng tried to seize the sword and suppress knowledge of Yu Ci’s cultivation method, but Yu Nan’s questions unsettled him and left him facing Xue Pingzhi and Yu Nan at a disadvantage.

• Yu Nan struck Wu Yao with the Blood Finger Heart Sword, and Tong Xu grabbed the wounded Wu Yao and fled.
• Xue Pingzhi’s Two Forms Circle trapped five rogue cultivators and stalled the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, though Qu Cheng’s sword intent disrupted the circle.
• Qu Cheng asked Xue Pingzhi to hand over the person attached to the sword, but she refused to yield.
• Qu Cheng warned Xue Pingzhi that using the Melting Shadow Escape could worsen the harm caused by the Rakshasa Illusory Power, but she dismissed his concern.
• Yu Nan challenged Qu Cheng’s claim that Yu Ci’s cultivation method belonged to their sect, pointing to a Dharma form within the Two Forms Circle that appeared to come from another lineage.
• Qu Cheng’s certainty and killing intent wavered as he faced Xue Pingzhi and Yu Nan together.

Qu Cheng’s negotiations with Xue Pingzhi collapsed, and she continued using the Two Forms Circle to crush the five Rogue Cultivator True Persons. Yu Ci then appeared as a powerful projection bearing the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, leaving Xue Pingzhi, Yu Nan, and Qu Cheng facing an opponent they could not easily defeat.

• Qu Cheng considered retreating, then tried to persuade Xue Pingzhi to preserve their sect’s ties, but she rejected his warning and the negotiations ended.
• Yu Nan activated the Two Forms Circle, gathering the earth qi and threatening to erase the five Rogue Cultivator True Persons’ Dao foundations.
• A Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect emerged beneath the circle, and a star-robed, sword-bearing human form manifested from it.
• Yu Nan identified the figure as a projection or duplicate, while Qu Cheng recognized the extraordinary power it displayed.
• Xue Pingzhi, Yu Nan, and Qu Cheng realized that Yu Ci’s projection left him in an effectively undefeated position.

Yu Ci tried to protect the Xuan Huang Sword Spirit and keep his projection clone alive while negotiating with Xue Pingzhi and Ancestor Gu Liang. When Ancestor Gu Liang demanded that the spirit be erased, Yu Ci invoked the Heavenly Escape Killing Sword to force the powerful cultivators to reconsider their positions.

• Yu Ci revealed himself to Xue Pingzhi, offered to discuss the Two Forms Circle, and greeted Ancestor Gu Liang as the Five Rogue Cultivator True People collapsed from their injuries.
• Ancestor Gu Liang praised Yu Ci's sword attainments but demanded that the Xuan Huang Sword Spirit be erased before he would discuss a trade for the sword.
• Yu Ci argued that the Sword Spirit was newly conscious and that he had saved it out of friendship, but Ancestor Gu Liang refused to yield.
• Ancestor Gu Liang postponed the dispute and invited Xue Pingzhi to Hundred Flowers Valley, while Yu Ci recognized that the two Grandmasters had reached an understanding that threatened to keep him under their control.
• Yu Ci offered to explain the heart method and demonstrated the Unreturning Wheel, provoking Qu Cheng to demand where Yu Ci had learned the Heavenly Escape Killing Sword.

Yu Ci’s attempt to force Xue Pingzhi to state her position set off a clash between Xue Pingzhi and Ancestor Gu Liang, while Yu Nan drove Qu Cheng away. The chapter ended with Yu Nan asking the two grandmasters to stop fighting.

• Luo Yuniang urged Xue Pingzhi to act, and Xue Pingzhi attacked Yu Ci with the Two Forms Circle.
• Ancestor Gu Liang blocked the Two Forms Circle and protected Yu Ci’s unstable projection as the two grandmasters clashed.
• Yu Nan threatened Qu Cheng with death unless he left the region within half an hour, and Qu Cheng departed after deciding not to fight.
• Qu Cheng added Yu Nan, Yu Ci, Xue Pingzhi, Ancestor Gu Liang, and their associates to his list of enemies over the Heavenly Evasion arts.
• Yu Nan asked Xue Pingzhi and Ancestor Gu Liang to cease their confrontation.

Yu Nan brokered a ten-year pact among Ancestor Gu Liang, Xue Pingzhi, and Yu Ci, using a Primordial Spirit Blood Curse to protect Xuan Huang's Sword Spirit while Yu Ci taught Xue Pingzhi a cultivation method. After the others left, Yu Ci began teaching Xue Pingzhi and discovered an unexpected difficulty.

• Yu Nan proposed that he guard the place for ten years while Xuan Huang's newly born Sword Spirit matured.
• Yu Nan established a Primordial Spirit Blood Curse, and Ancestor Gu Liang, Xue Pingzhi, and Yu Ci accepted its terms.
• Ancestor Gu Liang agreed not to harm Yu Ci or Xuan Huang's Sword Spirit for ten years, while Xue Pingzhi agreed to protect two lives and remain neutral afterward.
• Yu Ci agreed not to reveal Xuan Huang or its Sword Spirit's knowledge and to teach Xue Pingzhi the cultivation method; the curse unexpectedly took hold of his projected avatar.
• Ancestor Gu Liang left, followed by Yu Nan and the others, leaving Yu Ci and Xue Pingzhi alone.
• Yu Ci began teaching Xue Pingzhi and, a day later, realized he had run into an unexpected obstacle.

Yu Ci failed to teach Xue Pingzhi the Furnace Heart Method directly, so he devised a talisman-based approach and sought help adapting it. After Yu Nan warned that their underground base had attracted attention, Xue Pingzhi decided they would leave for Longxiao City.

• Yu Ci realized Xue Pingzhi’s established Dao foundation could not readily cultivate the Furnace Heart Method, and he began designing a talisman to apply it to her.
• Yu Ci completed a rough talismanic prototype and explained that its effects would not provide a permanent solution.
• Yu Ci suggested Ma Mingchu might help with the talisman, but Yu Nan reported that Ma Mingchu had already departed to attend lectures under his teacher.
• Yu Nan warned Xue Pingzhi that their formation had drawn attention and that escaped rogue cultivators might spread news of their location.
• Xue Pingzhi chose Longxiao City as their destination, and Yu Ci agreed to travel with them after changing his appearance and obtaining a scabbard.
• Xue Pingzhi produced a folding fan with a vivid spring-excursion painting on one side and a blank surface on the other.

Yu Ci used the Heartless Treasure Fan to imitate Zhang Yan and traveled with Xue Pingzhi, Yu Nan, and Luo Yuniang toward Longxiao City. On the way, Yu Nan explained the deal involving the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, prompting Luo Yuniang to question why it had been arranged years before the sword’s presence became known.

• Xue Pingzhi gave Yu Ci the Heartless Treasure Fan, which revealed shifting memories and could imitate someone’s form, spirit, and aura.
• Yu Ci’s memories formed a scene blending Zhixin Temple with the Tongtian River, and he transformed into Zhang Yan using the fan.
• Yu Ci and the others left for Longxiao City, where Yu Nan recommended that he cultivate in seclusion at Shaoyang Sword Cave.
• Yu Ci asked what transaction Ancestor Gu Liang had made to erase Xuan Huang’s spiritual awareness, and Yu Nan agreed to explain it to the group.
• Yu Nan said that eight years earlier an unnamed visitor had offered a unique cultivation method in exchange for help sealing the Xuan Huang Killing Sword at Seven River Peak City.
• Luo Yuniang questioned why the visitor had acted eight years earlier when the strange events at Seven River Peak City had only become known the year before last.

Yu Nan explained the secret plot against the Xuan Huang Killing Sword and the reward Gu Liang received, while Yu Ci weighed the account and considered who the hidden mastermind might be. They arrived in the City of Longxiao, where Yu Nan arranged a stay in the Shaoyang Sword Cave and offered Yu Ci access to its facilities.

• Yu Nan said the hidden conspirator had planned for years to weaken the Xuan Huang Killing Sword, and that Gu Liang had been promised a secret tribulation method that might help him achieve the Dao.
• Xue Pingzhi questioned why Gu Liang would trust the promised method, and Yu Ci concluded that only a few powerful factions could have supplied it.
• Yu Ci and Yu Nan reached the City of Longxiao, where Yu Nan described the region’s thriving cultivation culture and the Chunyang Sect’s presence.
• Xue Pingzhi and her disciple parted from Yu Ci and Yu Nan to seek high-level talisman masters.
• Yu Nan registered Yu Ci for a cave dwelling in the Shaoyang Sword Cave and gave him access to a sword-forging chamber and a sword-comprehension pavilion.

Yu Ci and Yu Nan traveled to Shaoyang Sword Cave, where Yu Ci began studying the Longevity Sword Realm in a secluded chamber. As he explored his sword intent, it resonated with his true body and the Cloud Tower Tree unexpectedly reacted.

• Yu Nan took Yu Ci to Shaoyang Sword Cave while they waited for news from Xue Pingzhi.
• Yu Nan led Yu Ci to the Sword Hiding Manor, which she had booked for ten years.
• Yu Ci entered a quiet chamber and focused on adapting his avatar to the Longevity Sword Realm.
• Yu Ci realized he needed to retrace how he had severed the laws’ restraints so he could wield his Longevity power without harming himself.
• Yu Ci’s Flying Immortal Sword intent resonated with his true body and swept through the void of Equality Heaven and Chengqitian.
• The Cloud Tower Tree unexpectedly reacted to the sword intent.

Yu Ci discovered that the Flying Immortal Sword Intent was improving both his sword-cultivator avatar and Gui Yan's avatar, and considered using Gui Yan to help refine his talismans. After the Heavenly Script Society withdrew from Xue Pingzhi's project under pressure from the Heavenly Evasion Sect, the group went secretly to meet someone willing to take the job, where Sect Master Xu was waiting.

• The Flying Immortal Sword Intent exposed flaws in both avatars and gave them room to improve their sword techniques and abilities.
• Yu Ci realized Gui Yan's avatar might help complete the Layered Aperture Form Integration talismans for Xue Pingzhi.
• Yu Nan summoned Yu Ci to meet Xue Pingzhi, but the Heavenly Script Society had backed out after the Heavenly Evasion Sect claimed the talismans involved its fundamental cultivation method.
• Luo Yuniang said someone had privately agreed to take the job and arranged a meeting.
• Yu Ci, Yu Nan, Xue Pingzhi, and Luo Yuniang secretly reached a courtyard on Longxiao City's outskirts, where they were told Sect Master Xu was waiting in the hall.

Yu Ci met Xu Yang, the famed master craftsman and Sect Master of the Hundred Refinements Gate, to discuss a talisman. Recognizing Xu Bo as an old acquaintance and recalling Xu Yang’s connection to Yu Zhou, Yu Ci followed him to a hidden workshop and wondered why the weapon-crafting grandmaster had entered the talisman trade.

• Xu Yang welcomed Yu Ci and, after hearing that he had made the talisman, invited him to discuss it immediately.
• Yu Ci introduced himself as Nanhu instead of using Zhang Yan’s identity, and Xu Yang asked Xu Bo to prepare the tools in case they could forge something at once.
• Yu Ci recognized Xu Bo as Third Master Xu, whom he had met in Fengdu City, and remembered that Xu Yang had crafted Yu Zhou’s sword, Departing Waters.
• Xu Yang sent Xue Pingzhi, Luo Yuniang, and Yu Nan away with a wooden puppet before leading Yu Ci to a secluded workshop beneath a rockery.
• Xu Yang showed Yu Ci the workshop’s yin-yang pool of cold spring water and molten lava, then directed him to a corner prepared for talisman work.
• Yu Ci wondered why Xu Yang, a renowned weapon-crafting master, had become involved in talismans.

Xu Yang examined Yu Ci’s talisman design and explained how talisman arts, artifact refining, and sacrificial refinement worked together. He revealed that Third Master Xu was preparing to craft a Dharma artifact from Yu Ci’s design, and asked him to keep the arrangement secret.

• Xu Yang studied Yu Ci’s talisman fractals, praised their structure, and noted that they were not well suited to Xue Pingzhi.
• Xu Yang questioned Yu Ci about the talisman’s functions while Third Master Xu brought tools to the Water-Fire Eye.
• Yu Ci realized Xu Yang intended to refine an artifact and understood that the design could help Xue Pingzhi avoid relying on others to make talismans.
• Xu Yang explained his views on artifact refining and sacrificial refinement, arguing that artifacts should be crafted to work fully for any user.
• Xu Yang disclosed that Third Master Xu would make the artifact mold from Yu Ci’s talisman and asked him not to tell anyone.

Yu Ci helped Xu Yang and Third Master Xu refine a talisman-based artifact, received Xu Yang’s sword Hidden Star, and later began secluded cultivation. Meanwhile, Guiyan arrived in the overseas cultivation world, where rumors spread about a deadly sea mist in the north.

• Xu Yang guided Yu Ci through artifact design while Third Master Xu forged the Heart-Piercing Thorn mold.
• Xu Yang demonstrated the Edge Washing technique, forged the sword Hidden Star, and gave it to Yu Ci.
• Xue Pingzhi received the completed artifact and returned to Hundred Flowers Valley with Luo Yuniang, while Yu Nan disappeared nearby.
• Yu Ci settled into Sword Hiding Manor and began secluded cultivation in the Longevity Sword Realm.
• Guiyan came ashore in disguise and heard cultivators discussing a spreading northern sea mist that had killed Old Seventh Wu and others.

Ghost Weary searched for clues about Little Five’s disappearance and investigated rumors of a ten-thousand-li mist near Wu Gou City. While posing as South Lake, he accepted an invitation from Island Master Mi to a gathering where he hoped to learn more about the mist.

• Ghost Weary concluded that Little Five might have been trapped in the ten-thousand-li mist and traveled to Purple Rock Island to investigate.
• Ghost Weary examined a coral-branch artifact at a stall and haggled with its owner while probing him for information about the mist.
• Mi Tuo introduced himself as the island master of Heng Fan Island and invited Ghost Weary, using the name South Lake, to a gathering about the mist.
• Ghost Weary accepted Mi Tuo’s invitation because the gathering offered a chance to learn more about the mist.

Gui Yan attended a trade gathering at the Sea Merchant Guild on Purple Rock Island while considering the flaws in his Netherworld Nine Hidden Secret Art. He met Feng Yu and learned about the gathering’s influential attendees, but a clear chime interrupted their conversation.

• Gui Yan reflected on the dangers of relying on his demonic incarnation against Longevity sword cultivators and recognized that repairing his art would require secluded cultivation.
• Gui Yan arrived at the Sea Merchant Guild’s courtyard gathering using the jade slip Mi Tuo had given him.
• Gui Yan met Feng Yu, who explained that cultivators had come from across the Eastern Sea to trade items from the Ten Thousand Li Mist.
• Feng Yu introduced Steward Huang’s role in the gathering and described the Sea Merchant Guild’s growing influence through Seagull Market.
• Feng Yu pointed out Hai Wuya, a respected Void-Stepping rogue cultivator, and offered to arrange an introduction for Gui Yan.
• More than ten people entered as others left, and a clear chime rang before Feng Yu could finish identifying someone.

At the trading gathering, Gu Yan encountered Immortal Master Xuanyuan and examined the artifacts brought from the fog with Fan Ruolei. The chapter ended with Gu Yan recognizing that the artifacts were crafted by following the natural grain patterns of unusual deep-sea materials.

• Immortal Master Xuanyuan opened the trading gathering and warned the cultivators not to pass off items that had not come from the fog.
• Gu Yan concealed his divine intent after Xuanyuan noticed it probing the area.
• Feng Yu introduced Gu Yan to Fan Ruolei, who recognized Gu Yan as a Void-Stepping expert but did not offer to take him to meet Hai Wuya.
• Gu Yan, Fan Ruolei, and Feng Yu discussed artifact-crafting, and Fan Ruolei bought two artifacts and helped Feng Yu trade for another.
• Gu Yan compared the gathered artifacts with his coral branch and concluded that their makers had followed the materials’ natural grain patterns.

Gui Yan, Fan Ruolei, and Feng Yu learned that a second gathering would bring powerful cultivators to investigate the mist, believed to conceal an ancient ruin. As the garden’s trade fair ended, Feng Yu declined to join the expedition, and a stealthy stranger approached Gui Yan and Fan Ruolei asking to buy their Jade Talisman.

• Fan Ruolei and Gui Yan discussed the magical instruments in the mist and concluded that they likely came from a shared inheritance.
• Mi Tuo told Fan Ruolei, Gui Yan, and Feng Yu that the mist was thought to surround a near-ancient ruin and that powerful cultivators would attend a subsequent gathering.
• Mi Tuo gave the three Jade Talismans and explained how to use them, while Gui Yan considered joining an expedition to search the mist for Xiao Wu.
• Feng Yu returned his Jade Talisman to Gui Yan and chose not to join the expedition, fearing he would be used as a pawn.
• As Gui Yan and Fan Ruolei prepared to leave, a tall, weathered stranger with exceptional stealth asked whether they would sell their Jade Talisman.

Gui Yan traded the Jade Talisman for an incomplete artifact that fascinated Fan Ruolei, then used the talisman to join a distant gathering of cultivators. The gathering’s array formed a network of divine intents over the sea, where Wanderer Hai Hong appeared to greet the attendees.

• A tall old man offered Gui Yan a miniature underwater-world artifact in exchange for the Jade Talisman, and Gui Yan accepted the trade.
• Fan Ruolei recognized the artifact’s unusual, layered technique, and Gui Yan let him study it.
• After two days, Gui Yan activated the Jade Talisman, sending his divine intent thousands of miles to the gathering’s talisman array.
• Cultivators’ divine intents settled onto Intent-Bearing Plates, which moved into rings according to their owners’ strength and formed a communication network.
• An Intent-Bearing Plate rose from the central waters, and Wanderer Hai Hong appeared and greeted the gathered cultivators.