Recaps

Chang Geng used the Human King Woodcarving to improve his concentration, while Yang Huai cultivated the Little Vajra Incantation and was ordered to slaughter a Blackwater Pig-Dragon. The bound beast suddenly attacked Yang Huai with a streak of black light, which struck his golden defenses.

• Chang Geng discovered that the Human King Woodcarving helped him focus on comprehending the Twenty-Two Primordial Glyphs, and he decided to work toward Dao citizen status to strengthen his Senior Brother's reputation.
• Yang Huai mastered the Little Vajra Incantation's initial protection and used the Heavenly Yang Golden Light Talisman to summon a golden spear.
• Yang Huai arrived at the Slaughter Hall and learned from the red-robed Daoist that a Blackwater Pig-Dragon had devoured tribal people near the Luo River.
• The red-robed Daoist gave Yang Huai a heavy boning blade and ordered him to kill the beast, so Yang Huai pierced its windpipe and caught its valuable vital blood.
• After the Blackwater Pig-Dragon seemed to lose its strength, it suddenly fired a streak of black light at Yang Huai, who raised golden barriers with the Little Vajra Incantation.

Yang Huai survived the Blackwater Pig-Dragon’s final attack, learned to process the beast under Flame Daoist’s guidance, and advanced his cultivation to the Purple Palace realm. He continued practicing the Suiren Spirit-Aspect Visualization Diagram and carving spiritwood as disturbances arose at the Yang Family Hunting Grounds.

• The Blackwater Pig-Dragon struck Yang Huai with a hidden mineral fragment, but his boning knife blocked it, and Flame Daoist explained the beast’s trick before guiding him through skinning and butchering it.
• Flame Daoist absorbed the beast’s remaining black qi and promised Yang Huai its hide armor as a reward, then told him to return the next day for more work.
• Yang Huai noticed his Soul-Calming Spirit-Severing Technique had gained proficiency after the battle and returned to the kitchen to practice carving spiritwood.
• Yang Huai completed a blazing-yang cloud-patterned carving, refined the spiritual qi it released, and broke through to the Purple Palace realm by forming a seed of dharma power in his dantian.
• Cloudmist Daoist observed Yang Huai’s breakthrough as he began a lotus-petal-patterned carving, while a clearer Suiren Sacred Aspect gradually formed in Yang Huai’s sea of consciousness.
• At the Yang Family Hunting Grounds, the quiet mountain forest was disturbed by galloping horses, torches, and barking dogs.

Wild Dog Daoist Luo Zifu helped the leaders of Hengling Stockade recover Fifth Brother’s remains, and the Lone-Walker Heavenly King ordered him and two others to find the killer. At the Daoist temple, Feng Ying offered two thousand-year Vermilion Fruits for Yang Huai’s cloud-patterned Human King carving, leaving Mao Hong unable to compete.

• Luo Zifu used his magic to retrieve Fifth Brother’s bones from a deep cave, and the Lone-Walker Heavenly King vowed to avenge him.
• The Lone-Walker Heavenly King ordered Fourth Brother and Sixth Brother to help Luo Zifu track down the killer while he carried Fifth Brother’s remains away for burial.
• Luo Zifu set his vicious dogs on the scent from Fifth Brother’s bloodstained clothes and began the search.
• Mao Hong offered Yang Huai a five-hundred-year Green Jade Spirit Peach for the second cloud-patterned Human King carving.
• Feng Ying claimed the carving and offered two thousand-year Vermilion Fruits, leaving Mao Hong speechless.

Yang Huai traded a Heavenly Yang Human King Woodcarving for two thousand-year-old vermilion fruits, then accepted Feng Ying’s challenge to spar at the Demonstration Hall. After refining one fruit, he advanced his cultivation and considered how to defeat Feng Ying the next day.

• Yang Huai accepted the two thousand-year-old vermilion fruits from Mao Hong and examined them, while Feng Ying admired the woodcarving he had received.
• Feng Ying challenged Yang Huai to a spar at the Demonstration Hall, and Yang Huai agreed to meet him there the following afternoon after refining the fruits.
• Yang Huai consumed one vermilion fruit and used the Heavenly Yang Golden Light Talisman to refine its medicinal power, strengthening his magical power and opening hidden apertures.
• Yang Huai’s Lesser Circulatory Cycle Method reached the pinnacle of Great Mastery, and he considered how the Nine Heavens Orthodox Path might complement the Daoist temple’s cultivation methods.
• Yang Huai assessed Feng Ying’s strengths and realized that he had a powerful ally.

Yang Huai sought advice from Yuan Xiuxiu about defeating a stronger opponent, then continued his cultivation while she resolved to find herbs to help him. At the Slaughter Hall, Flame Daoist learned of Yang Huai’s duel with Feng Ying and began planning how to help him win.

• Yuan Xiuxiu told Yang Huai that he would need to find Feng Ying’s weakness and create an opening, and she decided to search the mountains for herbs to speed his cultivation.
• Yang Huai continued opening apertures, mastered the Little Vajra Incantation, and strengthened his soul through the flow of qi and blood.
• The old donkey sensed something in the mountains, and Yuan Xiuxiu emerged from the courtyard.
• Yang Huai refined a second Millennium Vermilion Fruit and went to the Slaughter Hall, where Flame Daoist revealed that he had already dealt with the day’s azure goat exotic beast.
• Flame Daoist questioned Yang Huai about his arranged duel with Feng Ying and assessed Feng Ying’s wind-and-lightning foundation and secret arts.
• Yang Huai demonstrated his Soul-Calming Spirit-Cleaving Technique against Flame Daoist’s Little Vajra Incantation, and Flame Daoist decided he could help Yang Huai win, though he would have to suffer first.

Flame Daoist brought Yang Huai to Slaughter Hall’s Spirit-Slaying Jade Disc to force him to grow stronger before Flame Daoist’s dangerous departure. Yang Huai survived its three-hour trial without accepting its demonic inheritance, and left with his soul techniques greatly improved.

• Flame Daoist activated the Spirit-Slaying Jade Disc for Yang Huai, while Hou Feng Daoist warned that the trial could damage him.
• Yang Huai was repeatedly killed by an asura fiend inside the disc and discovered the Spirit-Slaying Treasure Wheel Secret Cache, but refused to cultivate its evil inheritance.
• Yang Huai realized he could nurture the killing thoughts required by the Soul-Calming Spirit-Severing Technique by dying repeatedly, and refined his soul defenses through hundreds of rebirths.
• Yang Huai endured the asura fiend’s attacks until a golden force pulled him out of the disc after three hours.
• Flame Daoist praised Yang Huai for emerging unstained, then dismissed him; as Yang Huai left, secret arts in his sea of consciousness transformed.

Yang Huai’s gains from repeated deaths let Qingli enter his arranged duel with Feng Ying far better prepared than expected. Feng Ying seized control of the platform with powerful wind techniques, but Qingli countered with his golden defense and struck toward Feng Ying just as he unleashed lightning.

• Yang Huai saw that the Little Vajra Incantation, the Suiren Spirit-Aspect Visualization Diagram, the Soul-Calming Spirit-Cleaving Technique, and the Heavenly Circuit Spirit-Light Protective Incantation had improved after hundreds of deaths.
• Daoist apprentices gathered at the Practice Hall to watch Qingli’s duel with Feng Ying, while Yuan Sheng rebuked Hou Sheng for disparaging Qingli.
• Qingli arrived and called Feng Ying onto the platform, and Feng Ying asked Elder Yu Qingzi to ensure the duel was fair.
• Feng Ying summoned fierce winds that formed tornadoes across the platform, but Qingli covered himself in golden light and endured their force.
• Qing Xian noted that lightning could make Feng Ying’s wind techniques more troublesome, and Feng Ying then unleashed lightning from a tornado as a golden streak shot toward it.

Yang Huai defeated Feng Ying in a spell-testing duel, earning Feng Ying’s respect and drawing the attention of Yuanlu and other Daoist youths. After returning home exhausted, Yang Huai slept while Yuan Xiuxiu prepared him medicinal chicken soup, and Yang Huan rushed in with wonderful news.

• Yang Huai overcame Feng Ying’s defenses with the Soul-Calming Spirit-Severing Technique and brought a golden spear to his neck, then called the duel a draw.
• Feng Ying accepted the loss and declared Yang Huai his senior brother, while Yuanlu explained that Feng Ying had underestimated him and expressed interest in recruiting him.
• Yang Huai woke at the Yang Family Hunting Grounds exhausted, and Yuan Xiuxiu told him his parents were fine and urged him to sleep longer.
• Mother Yang gave Yuan Xiuxiu an old hen to make nourishing soup for Yang Huai, while the old donkey protested from its shed.
• Yang Huai woke to the smell of medicinal chicken soup and began eating as Yang Huan rushed into the courtyard with wonderful news.

Yang Huai investigated reports of enormous wild dogs and sensed that one carried a foul, demonic aura, but the villagers chased it into the forest despite his warnings. Wild Dog Daoist prepared an ambush and pursued Yang Huai after learning the Dog King considered him unusually nourishing, while his brothers went after the villagers’ targets.

• Yang Huan told Yang Huai that Yang San Laizi had been badly bitten by one of several huge wild dogs.
• Yang Huai joined Yang Daxin and the villagers as they organized a hunt, then saw a monstrous dog flee toward the forest.
• Yang Huai warned Liu Si and Liu Da not to chase the dog into the forest, but they ignored him and joined the pursuit.
• Wild Dog Daoist gathered his gray-eyed vicious dogs and learned that one man had wandered off alone.
• Wild Dog Daoist decided to pursue Yang Huai himself, while Fourth Brother and Sixth Brother went to attack their assigned targets among the villagers.

Yang Huai was ambushed by Wild Dog Daoist, who sought revenge for the peddler, but he killed the Daoist and his Dog King with his soul techniques. After burying them, Yang Huai hurried toward the forest to check on his fellow villagers and find out about Hengling Stockade.

• Yang Huai destroyed Wild Dog Daoist’s paper men after they cut his new clothes, then learned the Daoist was avenging the peddler he had killed.
• Wild Dog Daoist attacked Yang Huai with a venomous vine whip, but Yang Huai blocked it with the Little Vajra Incantation and immobilized him with the Soul-Calming Spirit-Cleaving Technique.
• The Dog King attacked Yang Huai from the grass, but Yang Huai struck it back and killed it with his soul technique.
• Yang Huai found no valuable manual among Wild Dog Daoist’s possessions and buried the Daoist and the Dog King in a mountain pit.
• Yang Huai reflected on the differences between heterodox practitioners and the Nine Heavens Orthodox Path, then hurried toward the forest to check on his fellow villagers and question survivors about Hengling Stockade.

Yang Huai defeated and interrogated two leaders of Hengling Stockade, then disguised himself and set out to eliminate the bandit stronghold. He returned to the village after a slaughter, where Yuan Xiuxiu warned him that killing could bring karmic hindrances, while the old donkey silently cursed his claim that nothing could disturb his heart.

• The fourth and sixth leaders of Hengling Stockade prepared to attack the people in the forest, but Yang Huai arrived and shattered the fourth leader’s hand with the Little Vajra Incantation.
• Yang Huai defeated the sixth leader, learned the stockade’s leadership and layout from both men, and forced them to kill themselves.
• Yang Huai took a human-skin mask, disguised himself, and headed toward Hengling Stockade to remove the threat.
• A slender figure watched Yang Huai leave, judged his plan likely to succeed, and hurried back to eat and drink.
• Yang Huai returned to the village at night after a slaughter, while villagers celebrated Yang Dalang and the Liu Family mourned their eldest brother.
• Yuan Xiuxiu warned Yang Huai that killing karma could hinder his cultivation, and the old donkey silently condemned his boast that no one could disturb his heart.

Yang Huai learned the Pure Spirit Evasion Art from Hou Feng Daoist and continued advancing his cultivation through woodcarving. When Bai Lingzhen praised his craft, Yang Huai’s Carpenter Fate Pattern changed, and its azure resonance began nourishing his Main Fate Pattern.

• Yang Huai asked Hou Feng Daoist for a soul-based movement technique and received the Pure Spirit Evasion Art after agreeing not to pass it on.
• Yang Huai memorized the art, and the Bronze Mirror recorded it as a beginner technique.
• Yang Huai carved woodcarvings through the day, pushing his Purple Mansion mana toward liquefaction.
• Bai Lingzhen visited with other Daoist acolytes, examined Yang Huai’s woodcarving, and praised his craftsmanship.
• Bai Lingzhen’s praise transformed Yang Huai’s Carpenter Fate Pattern and caused its azure resonance to nourish his Main Fate Pattern.

Yang Huai traded his Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings to Bai Lingzhen for spiritual fruits and gave two boxes to Daoist Wu Feng to keep using the kitchen’s spiritwood. He then consumed a Millennium Purple Lingzhi Fruit to cultivate his Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bone, pursuing a stronger foundation before advancing his other cultivation method.

• Bai Lingzhen bought Yang Huai’s Radiant Cloud-Pattern Wood Carving for two Millennium Purple Lingzhi Fruits and four more carvings for eight Millennium Lingzhi Fruits.
• Bai Lingzhen invited Yang Huai to bring him exotic-beast materials and spirit souls from Slaughter Hall for the alchemy hall to purchase.
• Daoist Wu Feng scolded Yang Huai for wasting kitchen firewood, then accepted two rosewood-heart boxes after Yang Huai offered them as a gift.
• Daoist Wu Feng warned Yang Huai to consume his new resources quickly, and Yang Huai hurried away from the kitchen.
• At Inquiry Cliff, Yang Huai swallowed a Millennium Purple Lingzhi Fruit and used its medicinal power to cultivate the Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bone in his left hand.

Yang Huai refined spirit fruits, advanced his cultivation, and awakened Swordheart Clarity as his sword body grew stronger. When rival wood carvings threatened his income, he gave Chang Geng two Millennium Vermilion Fruits and asked him to deliver a message.

• Yang Huai refined six Millennium Purple Lingzhi Fruits, condensed jade liquid in his violet palace, and awakened Swordheart Clarity.
• For over a month, Yang Huai carved Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings and traded them for spirit fruits and medicines while cultivating the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram.
• Chang Geng told Yang Huai that pill-room acolytes had begun selling similar carvings for one millennium spirit fruit each.
• Yang Huai's Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bones surpassed one hundred and transformed into the Innate Geng Metal Sword Body, while his jade liquid neared completion.
• Yang Huai gave Chang Geng a box containing two Millennium Vermilion Fruits and asked him to deliver a message.

An Sheng’s woodcarving business collapsed after Qingli’s new composite Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings drew buyers across the Daoist temple. Yang Huai sold the carvings at the dining hall, while his newly transformed Craftsman God Destiny helped explain their extraordinary quality.

• An Sheng learned that Hundred Beasts Cave’s senior brothers wanted to return his woodcarvings after Qingli released powerful composite carvings and lowered the price of the single-pattern ones.
• An Sheng admitted he had already used the spirit fruits and herbs, then worried that rejecting the returns would anger Eldest Senior Brother Bai and damage his place in the alchemy quarter.
• Yang Huai’s carvings drew a crowd at the dining hall as an acolyte advertised their prices and limited supply.
• Feng Ying praised Yang Huai for turning the situation around, and Yang Huai reflected that his destiny had changed from white [Unique Craftsmanship] to red [Craftsman God Destiny] after azure qi entered him.
• Several fire-working Daoists watched the sale in astonishment.

Yang Huai sold his Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings to the Daoist youths for a large haul of rare spirit fruits and medicines, then gave half his earnings to the kitchen’s firework Daoists. Hou Feng Daoist accepted the offering and promised the kitchen’s protection, leaving Yang Huai with a place at the kitchen’s small dining room.

• Yang Huai gave Feng Ying a Composite Cloud-Pattern Wood Carving in exchange for spirit fruits, and Feng Ying accepted it despite the price.
• A Trough Hall inner disciple and other Daoist youths bought Yang Huai’s remaining carvings, including custom orders from Water Hall disciples.
• Yang Huai sold out his Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings and gained more than thirty millennium-old spirit fruits and medicines, along with additional preorder requests.
• Yang Huai gave half of his nearly sixty spirit fruits to Hou Feng Daoist as a token of respect for the kitchen’s martial uncles.
• Hou Feng Daoist divided the offering among himself and four other firework Daoists, who promised to protect Yang Huai’s business.
• Hou Feng Daoist invited Yang Huai to eat in the kitchen’s small dining room from then on, and Yang Huai agreed.

Yang Huai joined the kitchen's inner circle and used its nourishing spirit food to strengthen his Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bones. Half a month later, he had awakened the first form of Geng Metal Dharma Body and moved closer to completing his foundation.

• Daoist Yun Zheng brought Yang Huai into the main kitchen and served him Green Ram meat, spirit fish, Pig-Dragon jerky, and roasted rabbit.
• Hou Feng Daoist advised Yang Huai to eat Green Ram meat sparingly and favor the mild spirit fish as he replenished his vital essence.
• Yang Huai refined the Green Ram meat's potent wood spirit energy into his Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bone while sharing the meal with the fire-worker Daoists.
• Over the following half month, Yang Huai formed thirty-four more Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bones, bringing his total to 135.
• Yang Huai's Bronze Mirror recorded the awakening of Geng Metal Dharma Body's first form, and he resolved to complete the remaining bones and advance his cultivation.

Yang Huai visited Glory Hall, where Daoist Yuanlu and the others introduced him to the ancient gods’ cultivation path and its reliance on inherited divine blood and secret arts. Feng Ying later warned him that the path was difficult and had become a dead end, then revealed that the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram was an incomplete ancient-god secret inheritance.

• Daoist Yuanlu invited Yang Huai to learn about the ancient gods’ path, and Daoist Huayang demonstrated its powerful vital essence and innate nature.
• Yang Huai asked whether the path required divine blood, and Qing Xian explained that descendants of ancient gods had inherited methods while others had to forge a path without guidance.
• Daoist Yuanlu said Glory Hall lacked a complete inheritance but could connect Yang Huai with the Lesser Yang Tribe, the Star Tribe, or the Wind Clan.
• After the banquet, Feng Ying told Yang Huai that the ancient gods’ path was extremely difficult and that Glory Hall mainly borrowed its strengths to support other cultivation.
• Feng Ying revealed that the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram he had given Yang Huai was an incomplete ancient-god secret inheritance.

Yang Huai awakened the Geng Metal Dharma Body and continued seeking ways to advance his cultivation. After refusing to join the upcoming Hunt of the Various Tribes, he saw a chance to profit from it by arranging a wood-carving deal with Feng Ying.

• Yang Huai awakened his second innate divine ability, the Geng Metal Dharma Body, and discovered its powerful protection had a weaker layer over his lower body.
• Yang Huai decided to refine the metal, yang, and purity mysteries in his Heavenly Yang Golden Light Talisman rather than advance using only Innate Metal Qi.
• Yang Huai asked Flame Daoist about secret arts for refining harmonious yang qi and pure spirit qi, and Flame Daoist promised to find a kitchen art while suggesting he ask at the Daoist temple for the other inheritance.
• Flame Daoist told Yang Huai that a Hunt of the Various Tribes would take place near Wanqu City in half a month, but Yang Huai refused to participate.
• Yang Huai asked Feng Ying whether Glory Hall would join the hunt and proposed selling Cloud-Pattern Wood Carvings to a major buyer through Feng Ying's outside channels, splitting the profits.

Yang Huai arranged sales of his Cloud-Pattern Human King Woodcarvings to tribes preparing for the joint hunt, while Feng Ying persuaded Feng Lin to buy them for the Fangfeng Tribe. As orders poured in, Yang Huai neared his goal of gathering materials for two hundred and six Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bones, but the kitchen fire-worker Daoists warned him that his wealth could put him in danger.

• Feng Ying showed Feng Lin a woodcarving made by Qingli, and Feng Lin agreed to buy six for the Fangfeng Tribe’s hunting squad.
• Feng Ying finalized woodcarving deals with Daoist Yuanlu and Daoist Huayang, while explaining his arrangement with Qingli to Feng Lin.
• Yang Huai negotiated with Bai Lingzhen to sell woodcarvings at a higher price, agreeing to give him two thousand-year-or-greater spirit fruits for each one sold.
• As the joint hunt approached, Yang Huai carved woodcarvings and received large orders through Feng Ying and Bai Lingzhen.
• Yang Huai expected his sales to provide nearly all the materials needed for two hundred and six Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bones.
• The fire-worker Daoists, concerned that Yang Huai’s earnings could attract danger, advised him to stay in the Slaughter Hall.

Yang Huai refined spirit fruits until his Innate Geng Metal power neared completion, then cleaned the Slaughter Hall and discovered an ancient bronze sword. He asked Flame Daoist who had owned it and whether the hall had a sword technique to go with it.

• An Sheng and Mao Hong discussed how Yang Huai had gone into hiding, while Mao Hong regretted becoming involved in An Sheng’s scheme.
• Yang Huai divided the profits from his wood carvings among himself, the kitchen, and his collaborators, then used his remaining spirit fruits to strengthen his Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bone.
• Flame Daoist sensed Yang Huai’s Dao path nearing fruition as metal spiritual energy gathered over the side hall and formed a sword-shaped phantom.
• Flame Daoist ordered Yang Huai to clean the Slaughter Hall before the hunting assembly ended and exotic beasts arrived.
• Yang Huai cleaned the beast pens and stone halls, noticing malicious remnants purified by his Dao resonance and his King Sui spiritual form growing more like himself.
• Yang Huai found an ancient bronze sword in the weapon room, recognized his affinity for it, and asked Flame Daoist about its former owner and any matching sword art.

Yang Huai learned about ink talismans while helping Flame Daoist repair the Slaughter Hall’s rune ground-locks, then watched a tribal convoy deliver exotic beasts, including a juvenile Mountain Giant Bear. The bear broke free as it entered the pens and attacked the people nearby, with Yang Huai caught in the foul wind of its strike.

• Flame Daoist told Yang Huai that the temple had no sword formula but that sword masters sometimes visited to preach the Dao.
• Flame Daoist taught Yang Huai how ink talismans worked and instructed him to learn to repair the Slaughter Hall’s Spirit-Suppressing Talismans.
• Tribal warriors from around Wanqu City brought cages of exotic beasts to Qingping Daoist Temple, including a juvenile Mountain Giant Bear.
• The Mountain Giant Bear burst free of its restraints as it left its cage, striking two tribal warriors and sending them flying.
• The bear’s foul wind swept toward the nearby people, including Yang Huai.

Yang Huai helped subdue a Mountain Giant Bear and learned from Flame Daoist about the dangerous, fragmentary arts of the Rockfolk Tribe. After advancing his cultivation, he asked Yuan Xiuxiu to teach him a way to deliver departed souls using his own power, and she agreed to explain what she knew.

• Yang Huai narrowly escaped the Mountain Giant Bear’s attack before Yan Meng struck the beast into the enclosure, and Flame Daoist praised Yang Huai’s skill.
• Flame Daoist explained the Rockfolk Tribe’s survival-focused cultivation and warned Yang Huai about their destructive arts and curses.
• Two ghostly figures arrived near Qingping Mountain, vowed to infiltrate it to rescue their Young Lord and Lord Bear, then hid in the forest.
• Yang Huai’s Lesser Circulatory Cycle progressed as Yuan Xiuxiu watched and considered how to prepare him for Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Huai asked Yuan Xiuxiu about personally delivering departed souls, and she confirmed such methods existed and asked whether he wanted to learn.

Yang Huai used Daoheart Salvation to soothe the resentful spirits in the Slaughter Hall, discovering that he could save the weakest ones. Meanwhile, Flame Daoist and Hou Feng Daoist realized that two imprisoned beasts might belong to the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s clan, and Yang Huai’s cultivation was interrupted by a beast’s cries.

• Yang Huai tried Daoheart Salvation on the resentful spirits in the beast pens and found that some weak spirits could be saved.
• Flame Daoist rebuked Yang Huai for focusing on a secret art instead of diligent cultivation, while Yang Huai continued saving weaker spirits.
• A silver-white fox offered Yang Huai a scripture for delivering souls, but he ignored it; the fox and a giant bear then discussed their likely fate and the fox’s three lives.
• Flame Daoist and Hou Feng Daoist overheard the beasts mention Her Ladyship and realized they might have imprisoned members of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox’s clan, leaving them unsure whether to keep or release them.
• Yang Huai resumed cultivating outside the Slaughter Hall and studied the Heavenheart Pure Yang Visualization Method, but a beast’s weeping interrupted his concentration.

Yang Huai processed a shipment of Golden-Armored Giant Spirit Bears at the Slaughter Hall, but their enormous bear king launched a lethal attack as he prepared to kill it. Flame Daoist intervened and destroyed the attack, leaving Yang Huai to wonder about the technique he had used.

• Yang Huai argued with the crying Silver Fox in its cage before Flame Daoist summoned him to receive new guests.
• A yellow-robed Daoist delivered several Golden-Armored Giant Spirit Bears to the Slaughter Hall, and Flame Daoist assigned their processing to Yang Huai.
• Yang Huai slaughtered and butchered the bears, using his Suiren Spirit Aspect to disperse the ferocious souls that emerged.
• As Yang Huai approached the largest bear, it expelled a black attack that pierced his Little Vajra Incantation and struck at his brow.
• Yang Huai blocked the attack with his Geng Metal Dharma Body and retreated, while Flame Daoist beheaded the bear and destroyed the black radiance with a blood-red blade.
• Yang Huai recognized Flame Daoist’s technique as a possible Spirit-Slaying Treasure Wheel.