Recaps

Yang Huai survived the Bear King’s soul attack and learned that Flame Daoist had built his foundation on the Slaughter Hall inheritance. After meeting the Silver Fox Tu Shan Bai and learning its origins, he considered saving it from being skinned.

• Flame Daoist rebuked Yang Huai for lowering his guard, learned that his defensive ability was a divine talent, and told him to leave high-ranked beasts to him.
• Yang Huai finished processing the beasts and collected several cauldrons of blood to exchange with Martial Uncle Yun Zheng for spirit beast jerky.
• The Silver Fox explained that it had warned Yang Huai because it and its playmate had been trapped by humans, and it described the teachings of its Ladyship.
• Yang Huai learned that the Silver Fox belonged to the Celestial Fox Clan and had never eaten humans.
• The Silver Fox swore that its name was Tu Shan Bai, and Yang Huai considered sparing it from being skinned.

Yang Huai tested the Silver Fox and Mountain Giant Bear, then agreed to rescue the Silver Fox after they each put the other’s safety first. He arranged to buy her from the Rockfolk Tribe warrior with three evil-warding artifacts, and the warrior accepted the trade.

• Yang Huai warned the Silver Fox to act dumb, and the Mountain Giant Bear asked him to save it too.
• The Mountain Giant Bear and Silver Fox each insisted Yang Huai rescue the other, and the bear secretly gave him the location of its cave treasure.
• Yang Huai decided to save the Silver Fox, whose registration as an ordinary spirit fox left an opportunity to secure her.
• Yang Huai asked Flame Daoist to negotiate with the Rockfolk Tribe warrior after learning someone had offered ten pieces of Taiyi Azure Sky for the Silver Fox.
• Yang Huai offered three evil-warding artifacts, and the Rockfolk Tribe warrior accepted the trade after inspecting the Composite Cloud-Pattern Wood Carving.

Yang Huai freed Silver Fox, then fought off a Water Hall disciple who tried to abduct him. After spending half a month refining spirit medicines and helping at the Slaughter Hall, he completed the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram.

• Flame Daoist tried to persuade the Mountain Giant Bear to trust him, but the bear refused and praised Yang Huai instead.
• Yang Huai released Silver Fox, who gave him a jade-green pearl as a token of gratitude before leaving.
• A Water Hall disciple ambushed Yang Huai and attempted to take him to the Water Hall, but Yang Huai wounded him and escaped when other auras approached.
• Yang Huai returned to the Slaughter Hall and stayed there for half a month, refining spirit fruits and medicines while helping Flame Daoist slaughter beasts.
• After the final piece of Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bone formed, Yang Huai completed the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram.

Yang Huai underwent a profound transformation in Slaughter Hall, combining his innate Geng Metal Sword Body with the Lesser Circulatory Cycle Method to form an unparalleled foundation. The Temple Master promoted him to true disciple and ordered him to visit Peaceful Lake after completing the transformation.

• Yang Huai gained a fortuitous insight from the metal spiritual radiance and began Lesser Circulatory Cycle Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Huai’s qi and blood collapsed into his middle dantian, where a crimson essence-fire began tempering his body through a Circulatory Cycle Cicada Molt.
• Yang Huai’s Innate Geng Metal Spirit Bones formed further, transforming him toward the body of a pure innate being.
• Flame Daoist and Hou Feng Daoist watched the sword phantom rise, and Hou Feng regretted not taking Yang Huai as his disciple.
• The Temple Master examined Yang Huai’s innate metal spirit body, promoted him to true disciple, and ordered him to visit Peaceful Lake after his transformation.

Yang Huai completed his transformation into an incomplete Innate Geng Metal Dao Body and was promoted to a true disciple, becoming the Temple Master's eighth personal disciple. He prepared to honor Qingli's wishes, while Qingli wondered whether Yang Huai was about to leave.

• Bai Lingzhen and the Daoist boys learned that Qingli had impressed the elders and been granted true disciple status, and Bai warned Junior Brother An to stop causing trouble.
• Daoist Yuanlu and Feng Ying heard the news; Feng Ying wondered what had enabled Qingli's transformation and considered the implications of the Lesser Circulatory Cycle Method.
• Yang Huai's porcelain-like skin cracked away after a day and night of burning, revealing an incomplete Innate Geng Metal Dao Body with powerful control over Geng Metal spiritual qi.
• Flame Daoist told Yang Huai that the temple had promoted him to a true disciple, and Yang Huai went to pay his respects to the Temple Master at Peaceful Lake.
• Yang Huai returned as the Temple Master's eighth personal disciple and told Qingli he could now fulfill their agreement; Qingli asked whether Yang Huai was preparing to leave.

Yang Huai completed Qingli’s inheritance and returned to the Daoist temple, where Qingli chose to continue his work of saving wronged souls. After awakening in his own body, Yang Huai gained enough Essence Origin Points to fuse and repair the Innate Sword Bone Fate Template, beginning an eight-day fusion.

• Yang Huai visited Qingli’s family in Wanqu City and saw that A Yu had fallen for someone else; Qingli, overwhelmed with resentment and emptiness, decided how to deal with her.
• Yang Huai returned to the kitchen as Qingli, where the fire-working Daoists welcomed him as a true disciple despite Flame Daoist’s sarcasm.
• Yang Huai worked to save the wronged souls in the Slaughter Hall, and Qingli swore to inherit that task before a blue beast-hide scroll carried him away.
• Yang Huai awoke at the Yang Family Hunting Grounds and received Essence Origin Points for his carpentry legacy, Daoheart Salvation, and completing Qingli’s wishes.
• Yang Huai fused the Innate Sword Bone Fate Template and began an eight-day countdown to its completion.

Yang Huai chose to pursue immortality, and Yuan Xiuxiu laid out a route for him to enter the Azure Peak Sect and improve his aptitude. She then set out to obtain an immortal medicine to transform him, while the old donkey hurried after her to provide support.

• Yang Huai told Yuan Xiuxiu that he would seek the Dao of immortality, though he felt reluctant to leave his aging parents.
• Yuan Xiuxiu said Yang Huai could improve his aptitude through Foundation Establishment and might enter the Azure Peak Sect with a sect token.
• Yuan Xiuxiu explained the importance of aptitude and fate, and Yang Huai began cultivating to fuse his Innate Sword Bone fate with his Innate Geng Metal Dao Body.
• The old donkey warned that Yang Huai would struggle in the Azure Peak Sect, and Yuan Xiuxiu resolved to prepare an immortal medicine to transform him.
• Yuan Xiuxiu created a duplicate and vanished, prompting the old donkey to make a duplicate of itself and follow her.

Yang Huai discovered that Liu Jingjing was being drained of her life and destiny by a scheme involving Huang Liang and a Taoist. After learning the Seven-Star Life-Adding Method would kill Liu Jingjing the next day, Yang Huai gave her a Suiren Wood Carving to protect her.

• Yang Huai noticed that Qingli's body had more bones and unusual structures than his own, so he avoided risking the Metal Origin Five Aggregates Diagram on his body.
• Mother Yang and other village women discussed Liu Jingjing's worsening condition and speculated that Huang Liang had taken her vitality; Yang Huai slipped away when they praised his changed appearance.
• Yang Huai sensed evil aura linking Liu Jingjing to Huang Liang and saw that Huang Liang's health had improved while Liu Jingjing was near death.
• Yang Huai carved a Suiren Wood Carving and secretly followed Huang Liang to hear a Taoist explain that the Seven-Star Life-Adding Method would save Huang Liang by taking Liu Jingjing's destiny, leaving her one day to live.
• Yang Huai went to Liu Jingjing's window, explained the danger, and told her to keep the Suiren Wood Carving close to her body.

Liu Jingjing’s sandalwood carving disrupted Daoist Xuanzhen’s ritual to transfer her fate to Huang Liang, leaving Huang Liang dead and Xuanzhen injured. After Xuanzhen killed Master Huang and went to investigate the carving’s power, Yang Huai killed him, and the Huang Family fell into chaos.

• Liu Jingjing felt the sandalwood carving ease her weakness and the eerie chill in her body as she prepared to sleep.
• Daoist Xuanzhen performed the Seven-Star Life-Adding Method, briefly restoring Huang Liang by transferring Liu Jingjing’s essence, qi, spirit, and fate to him.
• The carving struck down the black-qi toad attacking Liu Jingjing, causing the Golden Toad Coin to explode and the ritual to rebound; Huang Liang collapsed, and Daoist Xuanzhen realized Liu Jingjing’s fate had become flawless.
• Master Huang attacked Daoist Xuanzhen after learning the ritual had failed, but Xuanzhen killed him with a silver sword light.
• Daoist Xuanzhen headed toward Liu Jingjing’s boudoir, but Yang Huai killed him with two beams of white light and took his corpse.
• The servants discovered Master Huang and Huang Liang dead, and the Huang Family descended into chaos.

Yang Huai converted Innate Sword Bone into an auxiliary Fate, awakening the Innate Geng Metal Dao Body and deciding to seek an opportunity at the Profound Mystery Sect. After traveling toward Yama Demon Valley, he arrived at a rainbound inn where unfamiliar Daoists and students were gathered, and several people reacted to him with surprise.

• Yang Huai buried Daoist Xuanzhen, concealed the Seven-Star Copper Coin Sword, and burned the Seven-Star Golden Toad Life-Enhancing Method.
• Yang Huai chose to convert Innate Sword Bone into an auxiliary Fate, awakening Swordheart Clarity and the first layer of the Geng Metal Dharma Body.
• Yang Huai asked Yuan Xiuxiu to test his aptitude and said he wanted to contend for an opportunity at the Profound Mystery Sect; Yuan Xiuxiu agreed to tell him where Yama Demon Valley was if he persuaded his parents to let him go.
• More than half a month later, Yang Huai reached Pingshan Town in Shangwu Commandery during torrential rain and overheard Daoists discussing their mission to escort Dao students to the Profound Mystery Sect.
• A voice upstairs invited Yang Huai to join the gathering, where a richly dressed woman and two Daoists in yellow flying-crane robes looked at him with astonishment.

Yang Huai met two instructors from Dachang Dao Academy and discovered that his innate qualities were unusually apparent. After a spirit snake named Jin Meng sought his help with a flood dragon transformation tribulation, Yang Huai lent him innate essence qi, and Jin Meng transformed and flew away as flooding threatened Pingshan Town.

• Yang Huai spoke with Chang Ling and Wang Wu, who warned him that his exceptional appearance and aptitude could attract trouble near the Profound Mystery Sect.
• Yang Huai noticed two mysterious men playing Go in the tavern, chose not to approach them, and went to an inn for the night.
• Jin Meng, a wounded spirit snake near Pingshan Town, entered Yang Huai's dream and asked for help controlling the floods caused by his transformation tribulation.
• Yang Huai questioned Jin Meng about his past and intentions, then agreed to help after Jin Meng promised to resolve the floods and avoid harming people.
• Yang Huai gave Jin Meng a strand of innate essence qi, enabling him to burn away his yin dregs, transform into a flood dragon, and fly off; a golden snakeskin vest appeared beside Yang Huai's bed.
• The traveler with the ancient sword watched the flood dragon rise, then looked toward another streak of light near the moon and vanished.

Yang Huai traveled toward Yanxian Town after the flood around Pingshan Town receded, drawing the attention of Zhang Qingning and the Dao students. On the road, he recognized a hidden mystery in two elders’ Go game, and the middle-aged swordsman declared that Yang Huai shared a great affinity with him.

• A golden flood dragon cleared the flooding from the Clearwater River after a straw-caped swordsman spared it and warned it to honor its promise.
• Yang Huai left Pingshan Town by ox cart and declined Zhang Qingning’s invitation to ride with him, despite the interest and hostility of the Dao students.
• Yang Huai spotted the white-haired Daoist and the middle-aged swordsman playing Go near Yanxian Town and sensed something extraordinary in their board.
• Chang Ling, Wang Wu, Zhang Qingning, and the other Dao students could not perceive the board’s mystery, while the swordsman’s rebuke made a burly student faint.
• Yang Huai saw the hidden significance of the Go game, and a golden glow enveloped him before withdrawing as the swordsman said Yang Huai shared a great affinity with him.

Yang Huai gained a deep understanding of swordsmanship while watching two Daoists’ chessboard duel, and the middle-aged swordsman of the Profound Mystery Sect decided to await him there. Yang Huai continued to Yanxian Town, where young candidates searched for tokens to enter Yama Demon Valley, and he asked an old woman for hers.

• Yang Huai focused on the golden sword radiance in the chessboard vision, comprehended a thread of sword intent, and impressed the middle-aged swordsman.
• The white-haired old Daoist left, while the middle-aged swordsman chose not to grant Yang Huai special entry and planned to test him through the usual process.
• Yang Huai learned the middle-aged swordsman belonged to the Profound Mystery Sect and continued toward Yanxian Town, expecting to enter the sect by braving Yama Demon Valley.
• A group of mounted riders rushed into town, knocking an old woman’s sack of flour into the mud; children and the chubby boy compensated her while hoping she would reveal a token.
• After the children left disappointed, Yang Huai approached the old woman and asked for her token.

Yang Huai obtained a Profound Mystery Sect jade sword token and drew the attention of the sect’s hidden elders, who discovered that he possessed an innate spirit body. In Yanxian Town, he then challenged a butcher he suspected was a disguised Daoist True Person, ending the chapter by revealing terrifying killing intent.

• Yang Huai saw through an old woman’s disguise, received a jade sword token from her, and subdued Shen Miaoyu when she tried to take it.
• Yang Huai kept the token rather than activating it and entered Yanxian Town as Shen Miaoyu vowed to surpass him.
• The Profound Mystery Sect elders watched candidates through a treasured mirror, recognized Zhang Qingning’s aptitude, and discovered Yang Huai radiating the sign of an innate spirit body.
• Yang Huai identified Butcher Zhao as a likely hidden expert and asked him for an entry token, but Butcher Zhao denied being anything more than a butcher.
• Yang Huai unleashed a chilling golden-red sword radiance and killing intent, frightening the onlookers and leaving Butcher Zhao visibly shocked.

Yang Huai collected five Jade Sword Talismans in Yanxian Town and entered Yama Demon Valley, where the Reincarnation Mirror began revealing his past and extraordinary fate. The mirror showed both metal and wood fates, leaving the watching Daoists uncertain whether the two elements would clash or complement each other.

• Butcher Zhao gave Yang Huai a Jade Sword Talisman after acknowledging his pure killing intent, while Daoists argued over which peak should recruit him.
• Yang Huai abandoned his attempt to buy a hairpin after Daoist students crowded the stall, then collected tokens by shopping and using Swordheart Clarity at a tofu stall.
• After obtaining five Jade Sword Talismans, Yang Huai sensed growing hostility and vanished from Yanxian Town before Wu Hanyao and his armored companion could steal his tokens.
• Zhang Qingning and her companion watched Yang Huai leave, then decided to seek a Jade Sword Talisman themselves.
• The Daoists shifted their mirror's image to Yama Demon Valley and watched the Reincarnation Mirror reveal fragments of Yang Huai's life and his metal and wood fates.
• The Daoists debated whether Yang Huai's metal and wood fates would clash and hinder him or take distinct roles and support each other.

Yang Huai passed the Reincarnation Mirror and the mountains of blades and seas of fire, impressing the Profound Mystery Sect elders with his aptitude and resolve. After learning that Martial Granduncle had already taken him as a disciple, he met Luo Xiang and asked about the sect’s inheritances, only to hear that focusing solely on Verdant Gold Peak’s sword art would waste his exceptional foundation.

• The elders recognized Yang Huai’s Innate Geng Metal Dao Body and watched him break free of the Reincarnation Mirror’s visions in one-third of an incense stick, earning a top grade A disposition evaluation.
• Yang Huai threw his four Jade Sword Talismans into the sea of fire, then crossed the trial while the Infernal True Fire tempered his soul and sharpened his Swordheart Clarity.
• Shao Lingzong told the elders that Martial Granduncle had already taken Yang Huai as a disciple, ending their hopes of recruiting him for their peaks.
• Yang Huai reached the cloud-sea platform and met Luo Xiang, who explained the six peaks and their inheritances after Yang Huai asked which peak excelled at flying sword arts.
• Luo Xiang praised Verdant Gold Peak’s White Tiger Spirit Sword Art, but an unseen voice warned Yang Huai that cultivating only one of the Six Divine Powers’ Origins would waste his exceptional foundation.

Jiang Yuexin brought Yang Huai to Chaoshou Peak, where Daoist Guangrong accepted him as a disciple of the Profound Mystery Sect. Daoist Guangrong promised to seek the sect master's approval for Yang Huai to enter the Patriarch Hall and learn the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register.

• Jiang Yuexin recognized Luo Xiang as Danqing's disciple, then revealed that Yang Huai's Spirit-Link Sword Intent connected him to the same master lineage.
• Jiang Yuexin carried Yang Huai to Chaoshou Peak to meet Daoist Guangrong, while Luo Xiang remained behind to await the other trial passers.
• Yang Huai formally asked Daoist Guangrong to accept him, and Daoist Guangrong welcomed him as a disciple and explained the sect's Yue generation naming convention.
• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai he would study in the scripture halls and confirmed that his Lesser Circulatory Cycle Method was a recognized Foundation Establishment text.
• Daoist Guangrong explained the Profound Mystery Sect's two orthodox scriptures and promised to ask the sect master to open the Patriarch Hall so Yang Huai could receive the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register.

Yang Huai received the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register as a core true disciple of the Profound Mystery Sect and began his studies at Chaoshou Peak. As he prepared for his second cyclic cicada molt, a winged tiger appeared in his dream and asked whether he remembered his former household’s old retainers.

• Daoist Guangrong told Yang Huai that the Six Divine Powers Origin Art was a secret inheritance and promised to explain it once Yang Huai cultivated dharma power.
• Yang Huai met Luo Xiang, Zhang Qingning, Wu Hanyao, Cheng Yunzhu, and Shen Miaoyu, and the six disciples attended the Ancestral Hall ceremony.
• The patriarchs bestowed the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register upon Yang Huai, while Luo Xiang and Zhang Qingning received the Primordial Mystery Orthodox Method.
• Daoist Guangrong and Jiang Yuexin encouraged Yang Huai and told him that his senior sister had prepared a flying sword for him to receive after Foundation Establishment.
• Yang Huai registered at the Scripture Hall, collected Daoist scriptures, and focused on preparing for his second cyclic cicada molt to mend his Innate Geng Metal Dao Body.
• A winged tiger appeared in Yang Huai’s dream and asked whether he remembered the old retainers of his former household.

Yang Huai received a rare immortal medicine from Yuan Xiuxiu and used it to complete his Innate Geng Metal Dao Body during his second Great Cycle Cicada Molt. After awakening his sword-related abilities, he began cultivating dharma power at an exceptional speed, leaving the Profound Mystery Sect disciples astonished.

• In Yang Huai's dream, the donkey revealed itself as the Winged Tiger, delivered Yuan Xiuxiu's jade box, and told him that she was injured and needed to recover.
• Yang Huai opened the box, recognized the Nine-Leaf Wishful Snow Jade Lingzhi, and resolved to cultivate until he could help Yuan Xiuxiu face her powerful enemies.
• Daoist Guangrong advised Yang Huai before his foundation-establishment attempt and supplied pills and medicinal fluids for his cultivation.
• Yang Huai consumed a branch of the lingzhi and began his second Great Cycle Cicada Molt, drawing crowds as immense metal spiritual qi gathered above his cave.
• Yang Huai completed his Innate Geng Metal Dao Body, awakened Man and Sword as One, and effortlessly activated Daoist Xuanzhen's silver sword pellet.
• Yang Huai began cultivating dharma power with the Mysterious Heaven Golden Register and found he could complete Gathering Qi in about three months.

Yang Huai emerged from seclusion after cultivating Golden Register dharma power, and his senior siblings explained how the All-Spirits Ranking aided the Profound Mystery Sect’s Six Divine Powers Origin Art. He chose to cultivate the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art, and Jiang Rongyue gave him a flying sword.

• Yang Huai left the mountain cave after half a month of cultivation, and Jiang Yuexin welcomed him and took him to Daoist Guangrong.
• Jiang Rongyue and Jiang Yuexin explained that the All-Spirits Ranking contained Dao attainments needed to cultivate the Six Divine Powers Origin Art and described the six peak inheritances.
• Yang Huai learned about the divine beast arts and chose the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art to develop his Innate Geng Metal Dao Body.
• Daoist Guangrong agreed to notify Verdant Gold Peak and told Yang Huai he could seek guidance from him or his Eldest Senior Brother.
• Jiang Rongyue gave Yang Huai an emerald-gold flying sword and asked him to see whether it suited him.

Yang Huai drew the ancient sword Junting and began learning sword-nurturing methods and sword arts from Jiang Yuexin, while discovering the sword’s former master had been the fallen Sword Immortal Liyang. After two months of rapid cultivation, Yang Huai completed all 108 strands of magic power, and the Bronze Mirror announced that anchored-object reorganization was complete.

• Yang Huai used Unity of Man and Sword to draw Junting, and Jiang Rongyue gave him the sword while warning him to honor its former master’s aspirations.
• Jiang Yuexin gave Yang Huai the annotated Sword-Nurturing Art and taught him the Three Lives Sword Method and Great Five-Star Sword Art, which Yang Huai quickly mastered.
• Jiang Yuexin revealed that Junting had belonged to Liyang, one of the Twelve Sword Immortals who fell during a demonic calamity, and warned Yang Huai that the sword carried trouble.
• Yang Huai studied the Sword-Nurturing Art, nourished Junting with his magic power, and received the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art at Verdant Gold Peak.
• Over the next two months, Yang Huai cultivated and practiced swordsmanship until all 108 strands of his magic power reached completion, and the Bronze Mirror reported that anchored-object reorganization was complete.

Yang Huai broke through to the Mystic Light realm and began his third projection, becoming an innate strange vine in a mountain medicinal garden. He resolved to cultivate and fulfill the vine’s wishes before a dangerous white rabbit reached him.

• Yang Huai condensed his dharma power into Mystic Light, collected Mystic Light cultivation texts and a stipend, and received medicinal pills from Daoist Guangrong.
• Yang Huai used the Junting Ancient Sword as a warning guard and entered his third projection through the Bronze Mirror.
• Yang Huai found that he had become a ten-year-old innate strange vine whose wishes were to take human form and win the Daoist temple mistress’s favor.
• Yang Huai examined the vine’s memories, learned that the unguarded garden was vulnerable to beasts, and decided to cultivate toward fulfilling the vine’s wishes.
• Yang Huai spotted a big white rabbit approaching the medicinal garden and recognized it as his nemesis.

Yang Huai strengthened the Innate Exotic Vine while observing powerful spirit beasts at night, including a golden toad and a true dragon. Back at the Profound Mystery Sect, he asked Jiang Yuexin to let him cultivate the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art alongside his current cultivation.

• A spirit rabbit entered the medicinal garden, ate a Green Pearl Grass plant, Solomon's Seal leaves, and a thousand-year fruit, then left Yang Huai alone.
• Yang Huai guided the Innate Exotic Vine to absorb gold spirit power, strengthening its roots and vines, and tested his soul arts, including the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art.
• At night, Yang Huai hid his presence as a golden toad gathered moonlight and a colossal golden dragon flew beyond the peaks.
• The next day at the Profound Mystery Sect, Yang Huai went to Chaoshou Peak and asked Jiang Yuexin about cultivating the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art alongside his current cultivation.
• Yang Huai explained that he hoped studying the Azure Dragon art would help him understand the White Tiger True Form Diagram, while privately intending to learn from the true dragon he had seen and aid the vine's growth.

Yang Huai convinced Jiang Yuexin and Daoist Chaoyuan that he had mastered the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art, earning permission to learn Starlight Peak’s Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art. After learning about demon transformation, he returned to his innate strange vine identity and found a beautiful woman inspecting him as a strange weed.

• Yang Huai demonstrated the White Tiger Spirit Sword Art at minor mastery, and Jiang Yuexin took him to meet Daoist Chaoyuan at Starlight Peak.
• Daoist Chaoyuan agreed to teach Yang Huai the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art and keep his White Tiger mastery secret for several years.
• Yang Huai studied the Azure Dragon Everlasting Spring Art and considered using his innate strange vine body to master it and combine its true intent with his swordsmanship.
• Jiang Yuexin explained how demons cultivate and transform by condensing their essence into a demon core, a process that can attract a lightning tribulation.
• Yang Huai returned to his innate strange vine identity and found a beautiful woman crouching before him, wondering aloud about the strange weed.

Yang Huai survived the temple master’s attention, grew stronger as a Primordial Strange Vine, and discovered the Golden Dragon among the beasts gathered to eavesdrop on Daoists at the temple. Seeing a chance to learn how to cultivate his Azure Dragon form, he offered the Golden Dragon a way to get closer in exchange for guidance.

• The temple master watered the herb garden with silvery jade liquid, and Yang Huai absorbed its power into his roots instead of tempering his true body.
• Yang Huai began absorbing heaven-and-earth metal spiritual energy freely, expanded his roots underground, and waited for the Golden Dragon to appear.
• Several powerful Daoists visited the temple, and Yang Huai stopped listening to their profound discussion when it strained his spiritual perception.
• The Golden Toad, a white rabbit, several spirit beasts, and a disguised Golden Dragon gathered near the temple to eavesdrop.
• Yang Huai briefly formed an Azure Dragon shadow from the Golden Dragon’s presence, then stopped when its dragon nature threatened to affect his soul and body.
• Yang Huai offered to help the Golden Dragon get closer to the courtyard’s Dao sounds in exchange for guidance.