Xituo Commandery.
Within a grand temple of the White Bone Way.
Atop the White Bone Lotus Platform, the twin dharma images of Lord Shilintuo were enshrined.
His male and female twin images both presented white bone forms, crowned with five skulls, their three eyes wide and glaring, their four arms each grasping a bone staff, a bone bowl, a white conch, and a carefree flower branch—
Seated beneath the dharma image of the Lord of the Charnel Forest was an upper master wearing tiger-skin monk robes with a fierce visage, precisely Sangji.
At a certain moment, he awoke from his meditative trance and spoke, calling out, "Miaoshui!"
A female draped in translucent gauze and possessing a delicate figure immediately kneeled forward, holding a white bone bowl in both hands, the interior filled with a crimson liquid.
Sangji drained the liquid inside the skull bowl in a single gulp, then spoke: "Just now, as I entered meditation, I suddenly beheld the Mandala of Grace, where the Auspicious Goddess gave instruction that Miaohuo has passed away—his true spirit has already returned to the Great Snow Mountain, awaiting reincarnation."
Wisdom Consort Miaoshui was startled; although Miaohuo was crude and unliked by the other four, the Fire Raksha Bowl in his possession was of infinite might—to think it was broken with such ease?
"Miaohuo was slain by the outer Dao while subduing them—"
Sangji continued, "That outer Dao practitioner cultivates the Winnowing Basket Water dao foundation and possesses a White Bone Soul Banner, which deeply suits my desires—
You are to transmit word to Mia Feng and Qingjing that they must be cautious of the talismans on that outer Dao practitioner, which possess nearly the might of a late dao foundation—"
"That outer Dao practitioner is merely at the early dao foundation stage, and