Recaps

Zhang Xiaofan and his companions retrieved Fire Crystals from the magma well and explored the second level, where they found a stone platform marked Mysterious Fire Mirror. Zheng Dali recognized the object as the jade ring he had been carrying, now encased in Cheng Liquid, and the group considered how to separate them.

• Zhang Xiaofan broke through the ice sealing the well, fell toward the magma, and Zheng Dali rescued him after retrieving Fire Crystals below.
• Luo Yunji opened Zheng Dali’s bundle and found a dozen large Fire Crystals, then sealed the well with ice.
• Zhang Xiaofan led the group up to the second level, where they followed a faint glow through the darkness.
• The group found a color-shifting stone platform engraved with Mysterious Fire Mirror, and Zheng Dali recognized it as his jade ring.
• Zheng Dali asked Luo Yunji whether the Cheng Liquid encasing the ring could be removed, and Zhang Xiaofan suggested having Little Junior Brother bite it open.

Luo Yunji and the others opened a passage to the icy third level of the Profound Fire Altar and encountered a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox. The Heavenly Fox recognized the Mysterious Fire Mirror and urgently asked what had happened to Xiao Liu, while Luo Yunji gleefully clung to her tails.

• Luo Yunji bit the Mysterious Fire Mirror back into shape, and it opened the stone platform’s passage to the level above.
• Zheng Dali checked the entrance, and Zhang Xiaofan led the group up onto a freezing sheet of ice.
• Luo Yunji slid across the ice, knocked Wild Dog Daoist down, and played while Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali guarded the group.
• A woman’s voice called out from the darkness, and Luo Yunji rolled the Night-Shining Pearl toward her.
• Luo Yunji rushed up to a huge white fox and grabbed her tails; the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox halted her attack when she heard him mention Xiao Liu.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali told the Heavenly Fox they knew Xiao Liu, drawing her attention as the Quadruplets and Wild Dog Daoist trembled under her gaze.

Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali reunited with the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, told her that her son Xiao Liu and the Fox Clan survivors were safe, and learned she was imprisoned by the Mystic Fire Chain. Zhang Xiaofan brought the Mysterious Fire Mirror to unlock it while Luo Yunji tried to bargain for the Sky Fox’s tails.

• The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox asked Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali about Xiao Liu, and Zhang Xiaofan told her how he had met Xiao Liu and Xiao San in Black Stone Cave.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali told the Sky Fox that Xiao Liu, Xiao San, and the surviving Fox Clan bloodlines were living in Sanfu Town and the Two Mountains.
• The Sky Fox explained that the Mystic Fire Chain held her captive and could be opened with the Mysterious Fire Mirror, so Zhang Xiaofan went to retrieve it.
• Luo Yunji claimed he knew the Incense Valley secret incantation and tried to bargain with the Sky Fox for some of her tails.
• Zhang Xiaofan returned with the Mysterious Fire Mirror, and the Sky Fox directed him to place it on a stone platform behind her.

Luo Yunji bit through a Mystic Fire Chain instead of using the Mysterious Fire Mirror, and Zhang Xiaofan led everyone back to the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox. After Luo Yunji touched a sensitive spot on the fox and was swatted away, she ordered everyone to turn around.

• Luo Yunji tried to bite through the Mystic Fire Chain, burned his tongue, then eventually gnawed through one link while Zhang Xiaofan put away the Mysterious Fire Mirror.
• Zhang Xiaofan and the Quadruplets carried the broken chain back, and Luo Yunji told the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox he would bite through the chain around her waist later.
• The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox asked whether Luo Yunji was a yao, and Zhang Xiaofan and Zheng Dali turned away, understanding her curiosity about his teeth.
• Luo Yunji examined the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox and pinched a lump of flesh on her abdomen, so she angrily struck him and sent him flying into the darkness.
• After Zhang Xiaofan and the Quadruplets brought Luo Yunji back, the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox ordered everyone to turn around.

The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox escaped the Profound Fire Altar with Zhang Xiaofan and the others, enduring Luo Yunji’s persistent and embarrassing questions along the way. At their campsite, she recognized the Bloodthirsty Bead and Soul Eater in Zhang Xiaofan’s treasure and warned that their power could corrupt him, leaving Zheng Dali to ask how she knew about them.

• The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox transformed into a woman, and Luo Yunji stared and asked her embarrassing questions until she slapped him away twice.
• Zhang Xiaofan covered the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox with his Mysterious Gauze robe, and Zheng Dali urged everyone to leave before people from Incense Valley arrived.
• The group escaped the Profound Fire Altar and flew to their earlier campsite, where Wild Dog Daoist collapsed from exhaustion.
• The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox recognized Zhang Xiaofan’s treasure as a weapon refined from the Bloodthirsty Bead and Soul Eater using the Blood Refining Method.
• The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox warned that the artifacts could invade Zhang Xiaofan’s soul, and Zheng Dali asked whether she knew what they were.

Zheng Dali, Zhang Xiaofan, and Luo Yunji spoke with the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox about Zhang Xiaofan’s Fire Poker, their stolen Bamboo Bag, and the Fish Monster’s lair. She told them to call her Xiaobai and gave them a lead, but Jin Ping'er arrived as their conversation ended.

• The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox questioned Zhang Xiaofan about resisting the Fire Poker’s evil aura, and he kept his cultivation secret while she urged him to wear the Mysterious Fire Mirror.
• Luo Yunji explained that Zhang Xiaofan cultivated by absorbing evil aura because he had modified the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao, then asked to see Xiaobai’s tails.
• Zheng Dali asked where the Fish Monster’s lair was, and Zhang Xiaofan explained that they had traveled to the Southern Border to retrieve their magical, spacious Bamboo Bag.
• Xiaobai agreed to guide them to the Fish Monster’s former location and insisted they call her Xiaobai rather than Senior.
• Jin Ping'er flew up to the group, and Zhang Xiaofan stood and watched her with a darkening expression.

Zhang Xiaofan and his companions discussed Incense Valley’s dealings with the fish monsters and prepared to search for their lair. Xiaobai warned that the search might lead them toward the Beast God, while Luo Yunji questioned whether immortality was worth enduring endless loneliness.

• Zhang Xiaofan confronted Jin Ping'er for hiding things, and Jin Ping'er said she had helped him during the chaos at Incense Valley.
• Jin Ping'er questioned Xiaobai about her identity, and Xiaobai explained that Zhang Xiaofan had lent her clothes after rescuing her from bad men.
• Jin Ping'er said Incense Valley had some kind of deal with the fish monsters, and Zheng Dali reflected on wrongdoing among both righteous and demonic sects.
• Xiaobai agreed to help the group search for the Bamboo Bag and mentioned a village to the west, though the fish monsters’ lair lay deeper in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Xiaobai asked whether the group knew of the Beast God, and Luo Yunji described immortality as a lonely existence after everyone else had died.

At camp, Luo Yunji unsettled Jin Ping'er and Xiaobai by claiming he knew a way to attain immortality, then explained his view of cultivation as insight into Heaven, Earth, and himself. After breakfast, the group prepared to follow Xiaobai to the Fish Monster’s lair and search for Luo Yunji’s Bamboo Bag.

• Zhang Xiaofan explained that Luo Yunji suppressed his cultivation so he could remain weaker than his senior brothers and let them protect him.
• Luo Yunji claimed that hearing his way to attain immortality would make someone immortal, but Xiaobai and Jin Ping'er reacted with alarm, and Wild Dog Daoist remained shaken.
• Luo Yunji complained that sleeping without his Bamboo Bag and Golden Bed had been uncomfortable, and Zhang Xiaofan promised to search for the bag after breakfast.
• Xiaobai praised Zhang Xiaofan’s cooking, and Luo Yunji challenged her to consider the true meaning of cultivation, describing it as insight into Heaven, Earth, and himself.
• Jin Ping'er told Xiaobai that Luo Yunji had improved the Azure Cloud Sect’s Taiji Mystic Purity Dao and created wondrous Dao arts, renewing Xiaobai’s interest in him.
• Luo Yunji urged everyone to finish eating so they could find his Bamboo Bag, while Wild Dog Daoist continued to avoid listening to him.

Luo Yunji and his companions searched the Hundred Thousand Mountains for the Fish Monsters’ lair, enduring poisonous plants and bickering along the way. Xiaobai and Jin Ping'er tricked Luo Yunji into entering the foul-smelling cave by promising him a Bamboo Bag and a trip to a stockade full of food.

• Luo Yunji complained about going without fresh food as the group followed a river upstream to find the Fish Monsters’ lair.
• Jin Ping'er wounded her leg on a thorny plant, and Luo Yunji dug up several plants for Sixth Senior Brother instead of helping her.
• Zhang Xiaofan found medicinal herbs with Xiaobai’s help, and Xiaobai treated Jin Ping'er's wound while she and Luo Yunji traded insults.
• Xiaobai identified a cave as the Fish Monsters’ lair and explained that underground river veins ran through it.
• Xiaobai promised Luo Yunji a Bamboo Bag and a visit to a food-filled stockade, persuading him to enter the cave with Zheng Dali and Zhang Xiaofan.
• Jin Ping'er praised Xiaobai for arranging to make Luo Yunji carry the cave’s foul stench for days.

Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, Zheng Dali, and the Quadruplets searched the Fish Monsters’ lair for the Bamboo Bag and discovered that the underwater passages behaved impossibly. The six of them drifted into a seemingly endless, dark waterway with no exit in sight.

• Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, and Zheng Dali found no Bamboo Bag in the cave and learned from a captured Fish Monster that it was hidden underwater.
• Luo Yunji entered a water cave alone but repeatedly emerged at the same spot, so Zhang Xiaofan joined him to find the way through.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji tried the passage four times, each time returning to the cave entrance despite never turning back.
• Zheng Dali and the Quadruplets joined Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan in water bubbles and followed the passage together.
• The six companions drifted for a long time through darkness without finding an exit, as their sense of time and sound faded.

Luo Yunji and his companions discovered an ancient underwater city and fought through swarms of Fish Monsters while heading toward its largest building to find Bamboo Bag. After Luo Yunji froze the area with his Ice Technique, the city appeared divided between an ancient city and a natural seabed, and Feng Feng spotted a distant light.

• Luo Yunji and Zheng Dali saw a vast, star-lit ancient city beneath them and suspected Bamboo Bag was in its largest building.
• Luo Yunji steered the water bubble toward the city, where Fish Monsters attacked and damaged the ruins.
• Luo Yunji fought the Fish Monsters with Water Ribbons as Zheng Dali and the Quadruplets watched from inside the bubble.
• Luo Yunji unleashed the Ice Technique, freezing the creatures and himself, while Zheng Dali guided the bubble away from the spreading ice.
• The Quadruplets noticed the city had split into an ancient upper half and a lower half of reefs and seaweed, and Feng Feng pointed out a distant light.

Luo Yunji, Zheng Dali, and the Quadruplets found the underwater ruins and recovered the Bamboo Bag, though the Fish Monsters had eaten Luo Yunji’s food. They left the mysterious inverted city unexplored, and after they departed, it slowly turned upright and glittered with treasure-light.

• Luo Yunji and Zheng Dali discovered that the ancient city was an illusion concealing a real, upside-down city inside a hole in the seabed, but Zheng Dali stopped Luo Yunji from breaking through the rock.
• Luo Yunji and the others searched the underwater hills and found the Bamboo Bag on a stone platform, surrounded by its contents, including Luo Yunji’s ruined bedding and eaten food.
• Zheng Dali retrieved the undamaged Bamboo Bag and led the group back through the passage, realizing that a curved hollow in the rock had made Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan circle back earlier.
• Zhang Xiaofan welcomed the group and reassured Luo Yunji that he would replace the food the Fish Monsters had eaten.
• After the group left, the ancient city inside the hole slowly rotated upright and shone with brilliant treasure-light.

After returning from the cave, Luo Yunji and his companions headed back to report, while Xiao Yicai told Azure Cloud’s leaders that the Big Bamboo Peak disciples had transformed the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor into a powerful cultivation ground. Tian Buyi agreed to let Azure Cloud disciples use it, then led the first group to the Dead Swamp, where they arrived as Luo Yunji’s group returned.

• Luo Yunji asked Zheng Dali and Zhang Xiaofan whether they should return to Senior Brother and the others, and they agreed to report back before visiting the Dead Swamp.
• Xiao Yicai and the others reported their journey to Daoxuan True Person and the branch leaders, then Xiao Yicai revealed the Big Bamboo Peak disciples’ plans for the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor.
• Lin Jingyu explained that the treasury contained a natural Spirit Gathering Array and golden spiritual water, allowing unusually rapid cultivation.
• Tian Buyi agreed to let Azure Cloud disciples cultivate in the treasury and asked to visit the Dead Swamp to check for hidden dangers.
• Tian Buyi led more than a hundred Azure Cloud disciples to the Dead Swamp, where they marveled at the immense tree as Luo Yunji and his companions arrived.

Tian Buyi and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples visited the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasury, where Luo Yunji explained that retrieving its inner core required rare alchemy materials and a suitable furnace. After Tian Buyi asked about the Southern Border expedition, Luo Yunji revealed how foul he and Zhang Xiaofan smelled, sparking a quarrel that ended with Luo Yunji stripping off his stench-soaked clothes and overwhelming everyone nearby.

• Luo Yunji opened the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasury for the Azure Cloud Sect disciples, and Tian Buyi learned that only Luo Yunji could lead them inside.
• Luo Yunji explained that the treasury’s inner core had to be refined immediately after removal, but the group lacked materials and a proper alchemy furnace.
• Tian Buyi considered finding a furnace on Azure Cloud Mountain or borrowing one, while Du Bishu reminded him that his own furnace had nearly been ruined by Luo Yunji.
• Tian Buyi asked about the Southern Border expedition, and Luo Yunji held out his sleeve to show that the Fish Monster nests had left him and Zhang Xiaofan with a terrible stench.
• Tian Buyi scolded Luo Yunji and tried to drive him away, so Luo Yunji stripped off his clothes and moved upwind with Zhang Xiaofan, making the others nearly vomit.

Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan returned to Inner Swamp reeking so badly that Wu Dayi made them soak in soap liquid while Tian Buyi went to find a pill furnace. Meanwhile, Xiaobai arrived in Sanfu Town with Jin Ping'er and Wild Dog Daoist to search for her kin, and Wild Dog Daoist led her to meet Sixth Master.

• Zhang Xiaofan pulled Luo Yunji away before he could provoke the others and offered to cook for him.
• Luo Yunji's stench drove Yellow Bird away, made Little Dragon vomit and learn to fly, and kept Long Zi and Dahei at a distance.
• Wu Dayi made Luo Yunji, Zhang Xiaofan, and the others soak in soap pod liquid until the stench disappeared, while Tian Buyi left to look for a pill furnace.
• Xiaobai, Jin Ping'er, and Wild Dog Daoist reached Sanfu Town, where Wild Dog Daoist asked the soldiers to let them visit Sixth Master.
• The Old General and Old Prime Minister recognized Wild Dog Daoist and learned that Xiaobai had come to search for kin, then allowed the group to continue to Sixth Master.

Wild Dog Daoist brought Xiaobai to the government office, where she reunited with her son Xiao Liu after three hundred years apart. Xiao Liu learned how she survived and urged her to stay with him and the Fox Clan in the Two Mountains.

• Wild Dog Daoist led Xiaobai and Jin Ping'er to Xiao Liu's office, where Xiao Liu was busy reviewing official documents.
• Wild Dog Daoist stepped aside, and Xiao Liu recognized Xiaobai as his mother and wept as they embraced.
• Jin Ping'er and the others quietly left the room to give Xiaobai and Xiao Liu privacy.
• Xiaobai told Xiao Liu that Incense Valley had imprisoned her in the Profound Fire Altar for three hundred years until Luo Yunji and the others rescued her.
• Xiao Liu told Xiaobai that the Little State Preceptor and his senior brothers had saved him too, and asked her to stay with him and the Fox Clan in the Two Mountains.
• Outside, Wild Dog Daoist noticed Jin Ping'er's sadness and began to say that the Little State Preceptor had been right.

Jin Ping'er left to visit her married sisters after Wild Dog Daoist upset her, while Xiaobai comforted Xiao San. In the Western Dead Marsh, Luo Yunji and his companions finished soaking off the Soap Locust Liquid and prepared to refine pills in the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor, where Luo Yunji began stirring the liquid in a wooden cup.

• Wild Dog Daoist suggested Jin Ping'er go to Two Mountains to find a husband, and she kicked him before leaving for a visit with her sisters.
• Xiao San arrived at dusk, and Xiaobai comforted her while teasing her about possibly being pregnant.
• Tian Buyi told Luo Yunji and Zhang Xiaofan to stop soaking in Soap Locust Liquid and announced that they would soon refine pills.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Luo Yunji checked the gathered medicinal ingredients and confirmed that everything was ready.
• After Xiao Yicai and the other Azure Cloud disciples finished cultivating, Luo Yunji led them out and had Wu Dayi and Du Bishu stay behind.
• Luo Yunji reached through the Deity's crystal barrier and stirred the liquid in a wooden cup inside the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor.

Luo Yunji explained how the Tree Sap could benefit his senior brothers, then helped Tian Buyi refine an ancient beast's inner core into pills. The furnace produced twenty-seven tiny pills instead of the expected nine, leaving the group unsure whether the alchemy had succeeded.

• Luo Yunji revealed that the Tree Sap could strengthen Du Bishu's mental power and serve as a tonic for the wood-attribute spiritual power of his Sixth Senior Brother.
• Luo Yunji admitted that he had forgotten to bring Duan Ming to receive some Tree Sap, but assured everyone that there was no rush because it would not run dry if used properly.
• Tian Buyi began refining the inner core in the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor, and Zheng Dali joined the effort with his Earth Vein Fire after the furnace fire proved too weak.
• After forty-nine days, Tian Buyi and his disciples found twenty-seven fingernail-sized pills in the furnace instead of the nine dragon-eye-sized pills the Deity had described.
• Luo Yunji suggested testing the pills on Long Zi, then proposed Big Yellow and Little Gray when Tian Buyi objected, prompting Tian Buyi to protest that he would not let Luo Yunji harm Big Yellow.

Luo Yunji’s additions to the pill recipe enraged Tian Buyi, but Tian Buyi still gave him nine of the twenty-seven pills. Luo Yunji fed them to the four spirit beasts, then faced his master’s fury after confessing, and the chapter ended with Tian Buyi beating him again at dawn.

• Tian Buyi scolded and beat Luo Yunji for adding golden spirit liquid and Great Yellow Pills while refining pills, then collected the twenty-seven pills from the furnace.
• Tian Buyi gave Luo Yunji one bottle containing nine pills as the group left the Treasury of the Heavenly Emperor.
• Luo Yunji fed one pill each to Long Zi, Dahei, Yellow Bird, and Little Dragon, who went off to cultivate.
• Luo Yunji confessed at dinner that he had fed the pills to the spirit beasts, alarming Tian Buyi and the disciples of Big Bamboo Peak.
• Tian Buyi beat Luo Yunji again by dawn, leaving his cheeks swollen and painful.

Tian Buyi watched the spirit beasts for signs of trouble from the pills while the disciples prepared Crystal Tablets and strengthened ties between Two Mountains and Big Bamboo Peak. Luo Yunji persuaded Xiaobai to take him to the Southern Border for Tasty Things, and they set off with the Quadruplets in a Golden Sedan Chair.

• Tian Buyi observed the four spirit beasts for two days without finding anything unusual, then followed Wu Dayi and the others back to Two Mountains.
• He Dazhi and Luo Yunji made Crystal Tablets for entering and leaving the treasury, and He Dazhi promised to send more after returning to Two Mountains.
• Xiaobai visited Luo Yunji with her son and daughter-in-law, and Wu Dayi and the others welcomed the family and reassured Xiao Liu that Xiaobai could stay long-term.
• Luo Yunji woke Xiaobai and insisted she take him to eat Tasty Things in the Southern Border.
• Xiaobai found a note saying they had gone to eat Tasty Things, then saw the Quadruplets and a Golden Sedan Chair waiting outside.

Luo Yunji ran away with Xiaobai and the Quadruplets to the Southern Border in search of new foods, and Zhang Xiaofan set out after them. A month later, the group was sampling local dishes when Big Yellow and Little Gray noticed someone at the inn entrance.

• Zhang Xiaofan discovered Luo Yunji was missing and learned that he had taken Xiaobai and the Yin Orb toward the Southern Border.
• Zhang Xiaofan volunteered to pursue Luo Yunji, while Wu Dayi and the other senior brothers agreed to inform Master.
• A month later, Xiaobai and Luo Yunji ordered Southern Border specialties at a village inn, where the innkeeper could serve only Black-Heart Fruit, Roasted Bear Tail, and Earth-Braised Yellow Sparrow.
• Luo Yunji eagerly ate the Black-Heart Fruit, while Little Gray and Big Yellow dragged the plate to their table and devoured it.
• As the two tables waited for more food, Big Yellow and Little Gray stopped eating and turned toward a figure standing in the doorway.

Zhang Xiaofan found Luo Yunji and reunited with the group, then recruited a local chef for the Food Mansion. That night, Zhang Xiaofan reflected on the killings that had troubled his state of mind and the Azure Cloud Sect’s role in them.

• Zhang Xiaofan found Luo Yunji after searching the roads and inns, and Little Gray and Big Yellow greeted him.
• Xiaobai explained that Luo Yunji had given the animals pills, and Zhang Xiaofan questioned his junior brother about leaving without telling anyone.
• Zhang Xiaofan invited the inn’s chef to join the Food Mansion and gave him a plaque to present at any branch.
• The group settled into their rooms, with Big Yellow choosing to stay with Zhang Xiaofan rather than be alone with Luo Yunji.
• Zhang Xiaofan gazed at the moon and considered his troubled state of mind, while recalling that his killings had been both the Ghost King Sect’s plan and the Azure Cloud Sect’s decision.

Zhang Xiaofan and Xiaobai talked about the Fox Clan’s origins in the Southern Border, while Luo Yunji interrupted them and kept Big Yellow awake all night. The next day, Luo Yunji and the Quadruplets enjoyed more dishes at the inn in Tianshui Village.

• Zhang Xiaofan recalled how Luo Yunji, Puzhi, and Daoyan had helped him resist demonic cultivation during a massacre, while his senior brothers kept the incident from Tian Buyi.
• Xiaobai told Zhang Xiaofan that she had grown up in the Southern Border, led the Fox Clan north a thousand years earlier, and that the Ghost King Sect Headquarters now stood on the clan’s former home.
• Luo Yunji interrupted Zhang Xiaofan and Xiaobai to ask to play with Xiaobai’s tails, then took Big Yellow to his room when he could not sleep.
• Zhang Xiaofan found Big Yellow trapped under Luo Yunji as a pillow the next morning, and Big Yellow escaped to seek comfort from him.
• The innkeeper arranged more ingredients for Zhang Xiaofan to cook, and Luo Yunji rewarded him after enjoying the new dishes with the Quadruplets.

Zhang Xiaofan followed a pursuit to an abandoned stronghold, where Jin Ping'er and Wild Dog Daoist faced Li Xun, Lu Xueqi, and another Incense Valley disciple. As reinforcements approached, Jin Ping'er used a feint to attack the Incense Valley disciple, and Zhang Xiaofan’s hidden intervention nearly struck Li Xun.

• After spotting cultivators racing toward the west, Zhang Xiaofan left Xiaobai and Luo Yunji and secretly followed them.
• Zhang Xiaofan found Jin Ping'er and Wild Dog Daoist confronting Li Xun, Lu Xueqi, and an Incense Valley disciple at an abandoned stronghold.
• Li Xun accused Jin Ping'er of taking his junior sister Yan Hong and demanded that she surrender her.
• As reinforcements approached, Jin Ping'er feinted at Li Xun and Lu Xueqi before turning her Violet Mang Blade on the Incense Valley disciple.
• Zhang Xiaofan prepared to intercept the reinforcements, and a sudden attack nearly pierced Li Xun before he blocked it with the Nine Yang Ruler.

Jin Ping'er and Wild Dog Daoist escaped with Zhang Xiaofan after Shangguan Ce attacked him, while Shangguan Ce returned to Incense Valley and entered Yun Yilan's hidden chamber. The chapter left Shangguan Ce questioning a frail, unseen elder about his health and recent events.

• Jin Ping'er killed an Incense Valley disciple and tried to take Wild Dog Daoist with her before Zhang Xiaofan crashed between the pursuers.
• Shangguan Ce fought Zhang Xiaofan and pressured him to hold back while Faxiang watched without intervening.
• Zhang Xiaofan recovered and escaped with Jin Ping'er and Wild Dog Daoist, leaving Shangguan Ce furious and Faxiang quietly pleased.
• Shangguan Ce entered Yun Yilan's secluded residence, opened a hidden passage, and reached a secret chamber behind a screen.
• Shangguan Ce asked the frail elder in the chamber about his health and whether he had learned what happened.