Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ying and the Black Tower Tribe inspected the Sea-Exploration Tower’s enormous Buddhist immortal warship during its handover. Zhu Yin described its spiritual veins, formations, and facilities, and Xiao Ying agreed it was an excellent deal if the inspection found no major problems, then asked her to explain its weaknesses.

• Guihai Canglan explained to Xiao Ying that Mulberry Elm Island’s wealth and traffic did not reflect ordinary conditions across Heavenfall Sea.
• Zhu Yin led Xiao Ying, Luo Wei, and the others to the Sea-Exploration Immortal Ship and gave the Island Lord’s Manor and the Black Tower Tribe the handover records.
• Guihai Canglan led the Black Tower Tribe’s inspection as tribespeople and clerks entered the ship to examine its functions and structure.
• Zhu Yin showed the leaders the ship’s spiritual veins, Buddhist formations, expanded interior spaces, and potential upgrades for the Black Tower Tribe.
• Xiao Ying said the ship was worth its price if it had no major problems and asked Zhu Yin to describe its drawbacks and weaknesses.

Chapter Summary: “Heavenfall Sets Sail (Part 2)”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The parties complete their inspection of the mid-grade Earth Grade immortal warship, later identified in the contract as the Galan Immortal Warship.
• Guihai Canglan confirms that the vessel’s main framework and formations are intact, though its supplementary weapons—including Sea Emperor Spikes, Spellcraft Towers, and Sky-Capturing Nets—have been forcibly removed.
• Zhu Yin justifies the dismantling by claiming Sea-Exploration Tower urgently needs Immortal Crystals. Since these installations are legally considered separate from the warship itself, Xiao Ying accepts the vessel as-is.
• Luo Wei, representing Mulberry Elm Island, warns Xiao Ying that the ship resembles the missing Galan Immortal Warship, which the powerful Galan Temple is searching for. Xiao Ying chooses to proceed, relying on the official contract and the island’s protection.
• The transaction is formally completed through three magical jade agreements, signed with Primordial Spirit strands and blood essence. The Black Tower Tribe pays eighty million Immortal Crystals for the ship, while all parties pay transaction fees totaling two hundred and forty thousand Immortal Crystals.
• Xiao Ying confirms that ownership—and the right to kill trespassers—now belongs to the Black Tower Tribe, while Mulberry Elm Island guarantees the ship’s safety within its territory.
• Xiao Ying unexpectedly offers to buy back the dismantled equipment. Shang Wuhen agrees to sell the used installations at seventy percent of market price, despite Zhu Yin’s hesitation.
• Xiao Ying also arranges for large quantities of food, water, seeds, saplings, gathering tools, and other supplies needed to relocate the entire Black Tower Tribe onto the vessel. Luo Wei grants them a ten-percent discount on these provisions.
• Before departing, Luo Wei warns that Sea-Exploration Tower may attack once the ship leaves Mulberry Elm’s waters, even if it dares not act within the harbor.
• The immortal warship finally rises into the sky, marking the beginning of the Black Tower Tribe’s voyage and Xiao Ying’s formal entry into the wider Immortal Realm.

Character Developments

• Xiao Ying demonstrates caution, confidence, and strategic foresight. He accepts the warship’s flaws without allowing them to derail the purchase, secures legal protection through the contract, and immediately begins restoring the vessel’s combat and survival capabilities.
• He also reveals that he possesses considerable personal wealth, contradicting the claim that the Black Tower Tribe has exhausted all its resources. His extravagant purchases appear intended to unsettle and pressure Sea-Exploration Tower.
• Zhu Yin remains outwardly graceful but is visibly frustrated by Xiao Ying’s scrutiny and unexpected buying power. Her attempt to minimize the ship’s deficiencies fails to prevent Xiao Ying from acquiring replacement equipment.
• Shang Wuhen acts as Sea-Exploration Tower’s official representative and proves more flexible and politically astute than Zhu Yin by accepting Xiao Ying’s offer. His genial farewell conceals the hostility between the two sides.
• Guihai Canglan displays expert knowledge of immortal warships and carefully inspects the vessel, establishing her value to the Black Tower Tribe’s future operations.
• Luo Wei moves beyond his formal role as transaction witness by warning Xiao Ying about the ship’s possible connection to Galan Temple and the danger of an ambush after departure. He also assists the tribe by arranging discounted supplies.

Significant Themes

• Power and vulnerability: Earth Grade immortal warships are powerful against weaker enemies but inflexible and vulnerable against equal or superior foes. Their size and strength do not guarantee safety.
• Law versus hidden conflict: The transaction is legally valid, yet the ship’s possible identity as the Galan Immortal Warship creates dangerous political consequences. Contracts offer protection, but not necessarily from future violence.
• Strategic deception and negotiation: Xiao Ying uses apparent vulnerability, legal safeguards, and displays of wealth to manipulate the balance of power. Sea-Exploration Tower’s polite business dealings conceal potential hostility.
• Beginnings and transformation: The warship is not merely a purchase; it becomes the foundation of the Black Tower Tribe’s migration, expansion, and rise.
• Trust and calculated loyalty: Luo Wei’s warning reflects genuine concern, while Xiao Ying’s trust in Sea-Exploration Tower is cautious and transactional rather than sincere.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Ying challenges Zhu Yin to acknowledge the warship’s shortcomings, but she avoids direct criticism.
• Guihai Canglan’s inspection confirms the vessel’s condition and exposes the removal of its weapon systems.
• Luo Wei repeatedly looks to Xiao Ying for the final decision, then warns him about Galan Temple and Sea-Exploration Tower’s possible retaliation.
• Xiao Ying and Shang Wuhen negotiate the sale of the removed equipment, while Zhu Yin objects until Shang Wuhen silences her.
• Xiao Ying requests logistical assistance from Luo Wei, who responds with discounts and encouragement.
• The chapter ends with Xiao Ying and the Black Tower Tribe departing aboard Heavenfall, beginning a new stage of their development amid the dangers of the Immortal Realm.

Xiao Ying completed refining the Galan Immortal Warship and prepared the Black Tower Tribe to leave Bloodstone Harbor, despite its dwindling funds. He checked on the restoration of his ancient ship and warned Lan Yan that its puppets would temporarily lose spiritual energy when he stored their supplies away.

• The Black Tower Tribe moved onto the Galan Immortal Warship and began forging its Heaven-Supporting Pagoda and miniature totem pillars for a new formation.
• Xiao Ying refined the ship’s central control hub, and Guihai Canglan reported that the tribe was ready to sail but nearly out of immortal crystals.
• Xiao Ying ordered the tribe to depart at midnight and refused Guihai Canglan’s proposal to recruit the many people seeking to join them.
• Xiao Ying visited the guarded cavern where Lan Yan oversaw the ancient ship’s repairs, learned the work would take about ten years, and warned her to keep the puppets from exhausting their power when he stored the materials away.

The Galan Immortal Warship set out against the current as Xiao Ying and Guihai Canglan planned to use Shattered Star Shoal as a defensive ambush site against the Sea-Exploration Tower and other pursuers. As the Black Tower Tribe prepared to reach the shoal and face its resident demon beasts, rival factions began monitoring the warship’s movements.

• The Galan Immortal Warship officially departed, and Xiao Ying’s forces studied a sea map while Guihai Canglan recommended Shattered Star Shoal as an ambush location.
• Guihai Canglan explained that the shoal’s narrow passages could let the Galan Immortal Warship block pursuing origin-grade warships, though King Lihuo warned that a defeat could trap the tribe.
• Xiao Ying approved the plan, learned the voyage would take a little over a month, and ordered the tribe to prepare while jade shamans guarded the warship.
• Guihai Canglan warned that demon beasts comparable in strength to the Mulberry Elm Sky Bow Tribe occupied the shoal, and Xiao Ying decided to hunt them as a training exercise.
• The Sea-Exploration Tower reported the departure to Shang Wuhen, while Mulberry Elm Island’s lord chose to observe without intervening; other factions also received news of the warship’s voyage.

As the Galan Immortal Warship sailed toward Shattered Star Shoal, Xiao Ying introduced Lan Yan and Lan Yu as the tribe’s guardians and prepared to transfer most of the tribespeople away. When several people resisted, he ordered the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair to kill, and they uncovered and slaughtered numerous spies aboard the vessel.

• Priest King Lihuo urged Xiao Ying to install hunting equipment because demonic beasts fled from the warship, but Xiao Ying said they had time before reaching Shattered Star Shoal.
• Lan Yan and Lan Yu appeared, reported that hidden observers had withdrawn, and were introduced by Xiao Ying as guardians of the tribe.
• Xiao Ying activated the Galan Infinite Myriad-Buddha World-Suppressing Formation and ordered everyone to submit to a transfer without resisting.
• Nearly nine thousand tribespeople were transferred, but Guihai Canglan, King Lihuo, and others remained, prompting Xiao Ying to command their deaths.
• Lan Yan and Lan Yu returned with corpses and three captives after killing spies from several clans and races hidden aboard the warship.

Xiao Ying moved the Black Tower Tribe into the Heaven-Earth Bell, stored the Galan Immortal Warship in the Lingji Cosmos Ring, and fled toward Shattered Star Shoal with Lan Yan and Lan Yu. At the ship’s last known location, Golden Light High Person arrived and used the memories of sea creatures to investigate its disappearance, but could not determine how it had vanished.

• Xiao Ying punished Guihai Canglan and the others for disobeying orders, then moved the Black Tower Tribe into the Heaven-Earth Bell.
• Xiao Ying stored the Galan Immortal Warship in the Lingji Cosmos Ring and set off toward Shattered Star Shoal with Lan Yan and Lan Yu.
• Lan Yu used Blue Wave Escape to carry the three of them rapidly through the sea.
• Golden Light High Person arrived at the warship’s last known location, killed the old man who had tracked it, and drove off the concealed observers.
• Golden Light High Person summoned sea creatures and extracted their memories, but the images of the warship’s sudden disappearance left him baffled.

Xiao Ying trained the Black Tower Tribe to deploy rapidly aboard the Galan Immortal Warship, repeating the drills until their response time improved and exhausting his own Primordial Spirit. After a brief recovery, he had the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair use their mermaid sonic abilities as the tribe prepared to hunt.

• Xiao Ying brought the Galan Immortal Warship to a new stretch of sea and ordered the Black Tower Tribe to take their assigned positions before a predicted miniature beast tide.
• After the tribe deployed too slowly, Xiao Ying criticized its lack of discipline and made the tribespeople repeat the deployment drills.
• Guihai Canglan reported that the tribe’s response time had improved, while Xiao Ying grew visibly exhausted from repeatedly transporting everyone.
• Xiao Ying ordered the tribe to rest for a hundred breaths before hunting, then recovered using the Cosmic Reincarnation Scripture and Myriad Spirits Method.
• Xiao Ying told the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair to begin, and they summoned mermaid Primordial Spirits and used Sea’s Illusory Melody and Call of the Sea.

The Yan-Yu Mystic Pair used their Mystifying Voice to draw sea creatures to the Galan Immortal Warship, but their first hunt produced only a modest haul. Xiao Ying considered the limits and dangers of hunting at sea, then prepared to amplify their ability with the Heaven-Earth Bell.

• The Yan-Yu Mystic Pair summoned fish, seabirds, and more than a dozen demonic beasts, which the Black Tower Clan attacked with Sea Emperor Spikes and Stupa Pagodas.
• Xiao Ying and Guihai Canglan realized that the Stupa Pagodas wasted crystals and destroyed valuable catches, while the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair worried that their ability reached only a few hundred leagues.
• Silver Wing praised the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair, restoring the Black Tower Clan's enthusiasm by reminding them that their catch was impressive for a hunt that had barely begun.
• Xiao Ying rejected Chief Cloudsplitter's suggestion to move the Galan Immortal Warship and considered the dangers posed by the Sea-Exploration Tower and other factions.
• After thinking through a way to strengthen the Mystifying Voice, Xiao Ying linked the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair with War God's Power and the Heaven-Earth Bell, then asked them to cast their ability again.

Xiao Ying used the Heaven-Earth Bell to unleash a powerful sound that left the Black Tower clanspeople briefly dazed and attracted beasts to the Galan Immortal Warship. The bell’s childlike spirit drew four fifth-tier seabed beasts as well, leaving Xiao Ying to face a far more dangerous threat than he had intended.

• Xiao Ying discovered that the Heaven-Earth Bell could produce a stronger Mystifying Voice effect on its own and used it to bewilder everyone around him.
• Several thousand beasts gathered around the Galan Immortal Warship, and Xiao Ying calmed the Black Tower clanspeople by telling them the group was manageable.
• Guihai Canglan identified eight fourth-tier beasts and warned Xiao Ying that their separate groups could overwhelm the tribe and exhaust its immortal crystals.
• Xiao Ying resolved to defeat the leaders quickly, but four enormous fifth-tier beasts emerged from the sea around the ship.
• Xiao Ying realized the Heaven-Earth Bell’s spirit had directed its sound into the depths and deliberately drawn the four fifth-tier beasts to the surface.

Xiao Ying launched the Galan Immortal Warship’s attack against the beasts surrounding it, using its formations and battle platforms to seize the initiative despite their heavy spiritual-energy costs. As the beasts counterattacked, Xiao Ying transformed into his Sky-Supporting Witch Body and rose to confront the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape.

• Guihai Canglan warned Xiao Ying that the beasts might still be confused and that attacking could provoke them, but Xiao Ying decided they could not wait and ordered an assault after a hundred breaths.
• Xiao Ying assigned the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair to attack a fifth-tier beast, ordered King Lihuo to control the defensive formations, and directed the witches to target the weaker beasts.
• After a hundred breaths, Xiao Ying activated three offensive formations against the Deep-Sea Ancient Crocodile, Underground Dragon Earthworm, and Deep-Sea Li Turtle, while the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair wounded the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape.
• The Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape roared and triggered a charge by thousands of beasts, but King Lihuo activated the warship’s principal formation and its battle platforms killed or injured many of the attackers.
• The offensive formations consumed nearly half the warship’s spiritual energy, while the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape attacked and the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair struck it again.
• Xiao Ying activated the Heaven-Supporting Dharma Form and Heaven-and-Earth Transformation, growing into a powerful Sky-Supporting Witch Body to face the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape.

Xiao Ying used his divine abilities and the Godslaying Spear to kill the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape, whose hidden mermaid poison had spread after his grievous wound. As the remaining beasts battered the Galan Immortal Warship, Xiao Ying deployed spirit-infused puppets to sustain its defenses and turned the spear on the Deep-Sea Ancient Crocodile, piercing its scales but not its body.

• Xiao Ying blocked the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape’s attacks with Heaven-Supporting Palm and Taiji Reincarnation, then injured himself when Taiji Reincarnation shattered.
• Xiao Ying enlarged and hurled the Godslaying Spear, piercing the Blue-Blooded Dragon Ape; mermaid poison from the Yan-Yu Mystic Pair spread through its body and killed it.
• The Underground Dragon Earthworm struck the Galan main formation, draining a vast amount of its reserves, so Xiao Ying ordered Lan Yan to mobilize the army and King Lihuo to activate the Heaven-Supporting Primordial Formation.
• Lan Yan sent tens of thousands of spirit-infused puppets to supply power, and King Lihuo activated the formation, stabilizing the Galan Immortal Warship and bolstering its defenses.
• Xiao Ying ordered Lan Yan, King Lihuo, and Lan Yu to support the battle, then hurled the Godslaying Spear at the Deep-Sea Ancient Crocodile and pierced its thick scales without penetrating its body.

Xiao Ying killed the Deep-Sea Ancient Crocodile and discovered that his shattered Game Dragon Ring had awakened the Heaven-Mending Mandate, a passive divine ability that restored his strength and advanced his cultivation. He returned to battle against the Deep-Sea Li Turtle, whose shell resisted his attacks as it submerged beneath the sea.

• Xiao Ying ordered King Lihuo to stop the Deep-Sea Ancient Crocodile from escaping, and King Lihuo trapped it with the Myriad Buddhas Paying Homage Formation.
• Xiao Ying repeatedly struck the trapped crocodile with the Godslaying Spear until he pierced its body and killed it.
• A surge of power restored Xiao Ying's strength, and his Game Dragon Ring shattered, granting him the Heaven-Mending Mandate and deep insights into its connection to Otherworlders and Pangu.
• Xiao Ying turned his attention to the Deep-Sea Li Turtle and struck its shell, leaving a small web of cracks without reaching its flesh.
• The Deep-Sea Li Turtle released crimson flames, filled the area with steam, and slipped beneath the sea as Xiao Ying prepared to attack again.

Xiao Ying killed the Deep-Sea Li Turtle, subdued the Underground Dragon Earthworm, and advanced both his immortal and witch cultivation. With much of the beast horde defeated, he turned to attack the Ancient Thousand-Tentacled Octopus.

• King Lihuo trapped the Deep-Sea Li Turtle in the Ten-Direction Vajra Womb-Treasury Formation while Xiao Ying prepared to attack it.
• Guihai Canglan warned Xiao Ying that the turtle was calling for help, but he ordered Lan Yu to disrupt its mind and repeatedly struck its shell with the Godslaying Spear.
• Xiao Ying killed the Deep-Sea Li Turtle with the Godslaying Spear and Scarlet Sky Sword, while King Lihuo imprisoned the Underground Dragon Earthworm in two formations.
• Xiao Ying threatened the Underground Dragon Earthworm until it stopped resisting, then gained the Heaven-Mending Mandate's feedback and advanced to the middle stages of the true immortal and spirit witch realms.
• Xiao Ying attacked the Ancient Thousand-Tentacled Octopus with the Scarlet Sky Sword and severed hundreds of its tentacles.

Xiao Ying led the Black Tower Tribe to defeat a beast horde, personally killing several powerful beasts and earning the tribe a valuable harvest. After ordering the tribe to leave the area, he considered whether he could subdue the captured Underground Dragon Earthworm as reports of the battle drew a powerful fleet toward them.

• Xiao Ying killed the Ancient Thousand-Tentacled Octopus, pinned the Blue-Blooded Giant Ape with the Godslaying Spear, and helped kill the Demon-Armored Frenzied Shark.
• Xiao Ying returned to the Ritual Altar to assimilate his gains while the Black Tower Tribe finished killing the remaining beasts without casualties.
• Xiao Ying ordered the tribe to clear the battlefield and leave quickly, and the clansmen gathered a haul valued at nearly seventeen million immortal crystals before costs.
• Xiao Ying kept the Underground Dragon Earthworm suppressed beneath the Heaven-Supporting Pagoda while its ferocity and vicious aura were refined away.
• Reports of the battle and the suspected Galan Immortal Warship spread, and Golden Light High Person led a fleet with two earth-grade lower-tier immortal warships toward the area.

Xiao Ying activated more Spirit-Infused Puppets and revealed them to the Black Tower Tribe as he prepared to sell beasts to replenish the tribe’s resources. He then used the Spirit Command Method to subdue the Underground Dragon Earthworm, which became both the tribe’s guardian beast and a devoted demon pet.

• Xiao Ying spent his remaining supreme immortal crystals activating three Fifth-Rank and seven fourth-rank Spirit-Infused Puppets, then prepared to have them sell beasts for the Black Tower Tribe.
• Xiao Ying met the Black Tower Tribe’s elders and leaders, who accepted the newly revealed puppets and prepared to return to the mysterious world.
• Xiao Ying gave the Underground Dragon Earthworm ten breaths to submit or be killed, and it offered its primordial spirit when his countdown reached three.
• Xiao Ying used the Spirit Command Method to place a restriction on the Underground Dragon Earthworm and freed it from the Galan Immortal Warship’s suppression.
• The Underground Dragon Earthworm coiled around the Heaven-Supporting Giant Tower, then shrank into a bracelet around Xiao Ying’s wrist, revealing its complete submission to him.

Xiao Ying detected the Sea-Exploration Tower closing in and hid himself, his companions, and the Black Tower Clan inside the Heaven-Earth Bell. While they waited, he learned about Black Rock Island as a possible place to trade their spoils, and Golden Light High Person arrived too late to catch them.

• Xiao Ying used the Eye of the Three Realms to spot the Sea-Exploration Tower fleet and a rapidly approaching golden light, then moved the Black Tower Clan into the Heaven-Earth Bell and fled with five Mysterious Immortals.
• As the golden light rapidly gained on them, Xiao Ying concealed the five Spirit-Infused Puppets and himself inside the Heaven-Earth Bell, which he hid in a coral island.
• Xiao Ying reassured the Black Tower Clan and observed that the little world inside the Heaven-Earth Bell had expanded, grown brighter, and begun to support grass.
• Guihai Canglan told Xiao Ying about Black Rock Island, where they could sell their hunting spoils, and described its Sacred Garment Sect and mysterious Battle Immortal King.
• Golden Light High Person arrived at the abandoned hunting site, extracted memories from nearby sea creatures, and realized Xiao Ying possessed powerful treasures and could be dangerous to confront alone.

Xiao Ying disguised himself as Ling Jizi and visited the Sea-Connecting Trade Alliance in Black Rock City to sell spoils from the Pangu World. After testing Luo Ziyan’s offer for demonic beast materials, he revealed a trove of powerful treasures and ancient Sacred Armor, leaving her and Senior Sister Shi astonished.

• Xiao Ying arrived in Black Rock City disguised as Ling Jizi and used the alias Heavenly Secrets to request a meeting with the Sea-Connecting Trade Alliance’s highest-ranking representative.
• Luo Ziyan and Senior Sister Shi received Xiao Ying, who declined Senior Sister Shi’s flirtatious invitation to borrow his Heaven-Earth Ring.
• Luo Ziyan offered fifteen million immortal crystals for Xiao Ying’s demonic beast materials, a price well above his expectations.
• Xiao Ying revealed dozens of treasures taken from Descended Immortal Gods in the Pangu World, along with three pieces of ancient Sacred Armor.
• Luo Ziyan and Senior Sister Shi recognized the Beauty-and-Rivers Fan and ancient Sacred Armor, and both reacted with surprise.

Xiao Ying tried to sell a collection of famous immortal treasures to Luo Ziyan, but Sister Shi recognized many of them and appeared to know his origins. Luo Ziyan nevertheless bought the treasures for 453 million immortal crystals, while Sister Shi separately negotiated for Xiao Ying’s three suits of Sacred Armor.

• Xiao Ying offered his collection of immortal treasures to Luo Ziyan, who recognized the Land and Beauties Fan and hesitated over their origins.
• Sister Shi stopped Xiao Ying from putting the treasures away, identified many of them, and asked whether he had the Great Dream Dao Diagram.
• Sister Shi offered to buy Xiao Ying’s three suits of Sacred Armor, and he demanded one hundred supreme immortal crystals, a Sacred Armor refining method, and a Heaven-Piercing Essence Treasure suit.
• Luo Ziyan agreed to buy the treasures at ordinary market prices, explaining that their unusual origins made their full value difficult to realize.
• Luo Ziyan tallied the 35 treasures at 438 million immortal crystals, bringing Xiao Ying’s total proceeds to 453 million, and paid him in lower-grade and supreme immortal crystals.
• Xiao Ying accepted the payment and wondered how to use his new wealth to develop his power.

Xiao Ying accepted the Kunpeng Battle Garment, ten million immortal crystals, and Luo Ziyan’s Sacred Armor refinement method, then studied the armor and activated it. Sister Shi arrived in his room just as he began examining its powers.

• Luo Ziyan brokered a deal in which Sister Shi gave Xiao Ying the Kunpeng Battle Garment and immortal crystals, while Luo Ziyan added a Sacred Armor refinement method.
• Luo Ziyan warned Xiao Ying that few factions would openly attack him, cautioned him about Yun Lan, and offered Heavenheart Island as a refuge.
• Xiao Ying left Tonghai Trading Firm and checked into an inn in Black Rock City, planning to change identities before making purchases.
• Xiao Ying found ten million immortal crystals in Sister Shi’s pouch and studied Luo Ziyan’s Soul-Refining Sacred Garment Secret Art.
• Xiao Ying refined the growth-type Kunpeng Battle Garment, which had been made from the remains of a kunpeng true spirit, into a suit of armor.
• Sister Shi entered Xiao Ying’s room through its restrictions and teased him about using her gift.

Xiao Ying resisted Sister Shi’s attempt to use her allure to make him reveal the Mysterious Supreme Treasure and Great Dream Dao Diagram, then learned she was a peak Immortal King seeking the diagram to advance. He refused to lend it and instead made Sister Shi an ambiguous offer, leaving her drawing close while he secretly prepared to exploit the opening.

• Sister Shi pressured Xiao Ying with her cultivation and allure, asking him to reveal the Mysterious Supreme Treasure and Great Dream Dao Diagram, but the Heaven-Earth Bell’s ring broke her spell.
• Sister Shi threatened Xiao Ying, while he argued that he did not know what the treasures were and warned that possessing the Mysterious Supreme Treasure invited disaster.
• Sister Shi revealed that she was one step from becoming an Immortal Emperor and wanted the Great Dream Dao Diagram; Xiao Ying learned she was a peak Immortal King.
• Linglong told Xiao Ying that the Ten-Thousand Birds Five-Absolutes Fan could dissolve Sister Shi’s cultivation only through physical contact, though a surprise attack was unlikely to succeed.
• Sister Shi offered protection and promised to repay Xiao Ying if he lent her the Great Dream Dao Diagram, but Xiao Ying secretly decided not to give it up.
• Xiao Ying suggested that Sister Shi grant him a small personal favor instead, and she hesitantly moved closer while he scoffed inwardly.