Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Triggering the Restriction”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shen Luo ignores Misu’s warning and pursues a strange aura to an octagonal altar halfway up Qingqiu Mountain, where an Ever-Burning Lamp is lit.
• Although Shen Luo cannot find any lingering trace of the aura with his Spirit Eye, Misu realizes they have trespassed into the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s ancestral land.
• The mountain’s guarding restriction activates. Scarlet flames form a ring and transform into a fire dragon, trapping Shen Luo, Misu, and Hu Bugui.
• A gigantic Flame Giant emerges from the formation and declares that intruders must die. Shen Luo’s attempt to explain their intrusion is rejected.
• The Flame Giant attacks with an enormous flaming saber. Shen Luo uses the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff to block the blow, but the impact and heat severely strain him.
• Shen Luo draws on the Huangting Scripture and forces himself upright under the giant’s overwhelming strength.
• He launches his Pure Yang Flying Sword, which transforms into a giant firebird. The attack destroys the Flame Giant’s shield but loses momentum and strikes the giant’s chest.
• Shen Luo unexpectedly loses all connection with the Pure Yang Flying Sword and cannot recall it, suggesting the restriction possesses unusual power over magical treasures.
• The Flame Giant continues its assault while the fire barrier prevents escape. Misu urges Shen Luo and Hu Bugui to flee, but they remain trapped.
• Shen Luo counters directly, using the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff’s “Carry Mountains and Chase the Moon” technique along with two crimson sword lights.
• Their combined attack collides with the giant’s saber, producing a massive shockwave that temporarily breaks apart the surrounding fire walls.
• Hu Bugui’s jade pendant creates a protective barrier for himself and Misu, but Shen Luo, who takes the attack head-on, is driven nearly into the stone ground and suffers the greatest impact.

Character Developments

• Shen Luo demonstrates his characteristic decisiveness and courage, but also his recklessness by entering the forbidden area despite Misu’s warning. His endurance and combat strength are emphasized as he withstands the Flame Giant’s immense power and continues fighting even after losing control of his flying sword.
• Misu shifts from warning Shen Luo to openly acknowledging their grave mistake. Her fear and despair reveal how dangerous Qingqiu Mountain’s restriction is, but she still tries to warn the others when the attack escalates.
• Hu Bugui remains alert and protective, pulling Misu away from the flames and using his jade pendant to shield them both.
• The Flame Giant is presented as an impersonal guardian of the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s ancestral land. It follows the restriction’s command without negotiation or mercy.

Significant Themes

• Recklessness versus responsibility: Shen Luo’s refusal to heed Misu’s warning directly causes the crisis.
• The power of ancient protections: The mountain’s restriction is strong enough to threaten even extremely powerful cultivators and can interfere with Shen Luo’s bond to his own magic treasure.
• Courage under overwhelming pressure: Shen Luo repeatedly chooses to resist rather than surrender or retreat, even when escape appears impossible.
• Loyalty and protection: Hu Bugui protects Misu, while Shen Luo instinctively pushes her out of danger and bears the brunt of the Flame Giant’s attacks.
• The danger of forbidden territory: The Qingqiu Fox Clan’s ancestral land is shown to be heavily guarded and hostile to outsiders.

Character Interactions

• Misu initially warns Shen Luo, but he disregards her caution. Once the restriction activates, she blames herself and fears that all three will die.
• Hu Bugui questions Shen Luo about the mysterious aura and later supports Misu physically and defensively.
• Shen Luo attempts diplomacy with the Flame Giant, but the guardian refuses to recognize his explanation or intentions.
• During the battle, Shen Luo protects Misu, while Hu Bugui protects her from the fire barrier and shelters her with his jade pendant.

Chapter Summary: Take One of My Moves

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shen Luo survives the Flame Giant’s devastating attack, though he is severely injured. His Great Dissection Technique begins healing him automatically.
• The Flame Giant prepares an even more powerful killing blow, transforming into a massive Nine-Tailed Sky Fox formed from flames.
• Shen Luo and Hu Bugui stand together to protect Misu, realizing they may not survive the attack. Shen Luo considers summoning Zhao Feiji for additional support.
• Before the attack can land, the Flame Giant unexpectedly disappears. The fire barrier parts, revealing the Qingqiu Kingdom Lord, the Great Elder You Su Strategist, and several Qingqiu elders. They have intervened and blocked the formation’s final attack.
• Misu is relieved to see her grandmother, but the You Su Strategist immediately orders Shen Luo, Hu Bugui, and Misu arrested. All three surrender without resistance.
• Shen Luo explains that they entered the forbidden grounds after sensing the aura of the enormous fox that had appeared in Chang’an. He suggests that someone may have deliberately lured them into the ancestral altar.
• The Qingqiu elders react angrily, accusing Shen Luo and the others of being spies from the Human or Immortal Races attempting to sabotage Qingqiu’s guardian formation.
• The You Su Strategist and several elders demand execution under Qingqiu law. The Kingdom Lord initially declares that the matter should not be pursued, asserting her authority as ruler.
• To compromise, Su Xiao proposes that Shen Luo take one of his attacks as punishment, claiming he will not use his full strength.

Character Developments

• Shen Luo: Demonstrates resilience and responsibility by enduring severe injuries and standing between Misu and danger. He accepts arrest peacefully and attempts to defend himself through reason rather than force. His suspicion that the group was deliberately lured into the altar shows his growing awareness of a larger conspiracy.
• Hu Bugui: Supports Shen Luo during the crisis and helps protect Misu, showing loyalty and courage despite the overwhelming danger.
• Misu: Becomes frightened and emotional upon seeing her grandmother. Although she tries to defend Shen Luo and Hu Bugui, she is also arrested, highlighting her vulnerable position between her companions and her clan.
• You Su Strategist: Acts harshly and suspiciously, prioritizing clan law and ancestral dignity. Her hostility toward Shen Luo and her challenge to the Kingdom Lord reveal her strong influence and willingness to oppose even Qingqiu’s ruler.
• Qingqiu Kingdom Lord: Appears more measured and fair-minded than the elders. She intervenes to prevent immediate execution but hesitates when pressured by the Great Elder, revealing tension between her authority and the clan’s traditional faction.
• Su Xiao: Emerges as one of Shen Luo’s strongest accusers. Rather than directly demanding execution, he proposes a personal test or punishment, likely intending to assert Qingqiu’s dominance.

Significant Themes

• Authority versus tradition: The Kingdom Lord’s attempt to spare the intruders clashes with the elders’ insistence on ancestral law, showing a conflict between centralized leadership and traditional clan power.
• Suspicion and political tension: The characters’ actions are interpreted through the lens of the wider conflict between Qingqiu, the Human Race, and the Immortal Race. Even a possible rescue mission is treated as hostile infiltration.
• Justice versus vengeance: The elders demand execution, while the Kingdom Lord argues for leniency. Su Xiao’s proposed attack represents a compromise that may still function as intimidation or revenge.
• Loyalty and protection: Shen Luo and Hu Bugui risk their lives to shield Misu, while Misu attempts to speak on their behalf despite her fear of her grandmother.
• Hidden conspiracy: Shen Luo’s discovery that they entered the forbidden altar without resistance, then triggered an attack only after arrival, suggests that someone may have manipulated events.

Important Character Interactions

• Shen Luo and Hu Bugui silently agree to protect Misu, establishing their mutual trust.
• Misu’s reunion with her grandmother quickly turns tense when the You Su Strategist orders all three prisoners bound.
• Shen Luo confronts the Great Elder’s accusations by questioning why the group was allowed into the forbidden grounds without obstruction.
• The Qingqiu Kingdom Lord asserts her authority by overruling the demand for execution, but the You Su Strategist challenges her decision.
• Su Xiao redirects the dispute toward Shen Luo personally, offering to punish him by making him withstand a single move—setting up the chapter’s cliffhanger.

Shen Luo accepted Su Xiao’s challenge to test him with one move, but Su Xiao secretly used an illusion to launch a lethal follow-up attack. Shen Luo’s Heavenly Fiend Corpse King blocked the strike, securing his victory and leaving Su Xiao humiliated.

• Shen Luo accepted Su Xiao’s offer to test him with one move, and the Qingqiu Kingdom Lord allowed the match to proceed.
• Su Xiao attacked Shen Luo, who dodged and countered with his Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff and Pure Yang Flying Sword.
• Shen Luo struck Su Xiao and believed the test was over, but Su Xiao’s illusion concealed a renewed attack aimed at Shen Luo’s heart.
• The Qingqiu Kingdom Lord ordered Su Xiao to stop, but Shen Luo’s Heavenly Fiend Corpse King appeared and blocked the attack.
• Su Xiao retreated after the corpse countered, and the Qingqiu Kingdom Lord declared Shen Luo the winner.

After leaving Qingqiu, Shen Luo traveled to Heavenly Mechanism City to seek help with treasure refining, but found the city missing. He learned that it relocated periodically and reunited with Yan Wushi and other disciples, who confirmed the preparations for his request were complete.

• The Qingqiu Kingdom Lord declared Shen Luo the winner, and Shen Luo left Qingqiu while Hu Bugui stayed to investigate his origins and the Chang'an Turmoil.
• Shen Luo flew to the Boundless Sea of Sand using seven linked Pure Yang Swords and discovered Heavenly Mechanism City was gone from its oasis.
• Shen Luo searched the area and tried to contact Little Master, but found no trace of the city or response from him.
• Shen Luo encountered Yan Wushi, Lin Han, Zhou Ming, and other Heavenly Mechanism City disciples, who told him the city lord had gathered the materials for his treasure-refining request.
• Yan Wushi explained that Heavenly Mechanism City periodically used a Spatial Relocation Formation to move the entire city elsewhere.

Shen Luo returned to Heavenly Mechanism City with Yan Wushi and learned that Yan’s despair stemmed from Beigong Ying, who had been turned into a corpse king by Ghost Yan. The Little Master agreed to repair Shen Luo’s Jade Pillow, and Shen Luo planned to shop for materials and improve his magic treasures while he waited.

• Yan Wushi invited Shen Luo to return with him to Heavenly Mechanism City, where the group was searching for items Ghost Yan had left behind.
• Shen Luo entered the city and learned from Zhou Ming that Yan Wushi had been despondent since returning from the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern and that Beigong Ying, his former close companion, had disappeared years earlier.
• Shen Luo realized Ghost Yan had turned Beigong Ying into an earthly fiend corpse king, likely causing Yan Wushi’s despair.
• The Little Master received Shen Luo and confirmed that preparations to repair the Jade Pillow were complete.
• Shen Luo handed over the Jade Pillow and two other treasures for the repair, then agreed to browse the city’s new wares and seek materials to strengthen his magic treasures.

Shen Luo discussed the Jade Pillow and the attack on Chang'an with Little Master, then sought rare materials in Heavenly Mechanism City. At the Golden Pavilion, he found four valuable items he needed and began arranging to buy them.

• Shen Luo told Little Master that the attack on Chang'an had been orchestrated by the Jing River Dragon King and that Qingqiu Fox Clan members might have been controlled.
• Yan Wushi agreed to have Heavenly Mechanism City disciples search for the materials Shen Luo needed.
• Shen Luo went into the city with Zhou Ming and learned that a recent expedition had brought back lingxiao copper for new puppet armor and weapons.
• At the Golden Pavilion, manager Taoxiang found four materials from Shen Luo's list in stock: netherworld grass, soul condensation stone, wind-floss vine, and hundred-wheel flower.
• Shen Luo asked to buy as much as possible of the four materials.

Shen Luo attended an underground trade gathering in Heavenly Mechanism City after hearing that Myriad Waters True Immortal might know where to find nine-heavens metal essence. The gathering had just begun to assemble when Shen Luo recognized the blacksmith Zhou Tie accompanying a mysterious old man.

• Shen Luo received the talisman materials from Taoxiang, then spent two days searching Heavenly Mechanism City for spiritual materials.
• Zhou Ming told Shen Luo that a lead on nine-heavens metal essence had surfaced, and Shen Luo disguised himself to attend the Lianxiang Association's underground trade gathering.
• Shen Luo rejected the young women offered to attend him and traded insults with Yan Lie before Gu Cangfeng introduced the gathered cultivators.
• Shen Luo learned that Myriad Waters True Immortal held the lead on nine-heavens metal essence, while Gu Cangfeng waited for one final attendee to arrive.
• A gaunt old man entered with a short, stocky servant, and Shen Luo recognized the servant as Zhou Tie, the blacksmith he had known in Chang'an.

At Gu Cangfeng’s trading gathering, Shen Luo recognized Ghost Vine Venerable as a possible lead in the mystery of Xie Yuxin’s corpse refinement, but prioritized obtaining the nine-heavens metal essence. The gathering began, and Myriad Waters True Immortal revealed an Azure Sea Ray Egg instead of the metal essence, leaving Shen Luo to wait for the exchange stage.

• Shen Luo saw Zhou Tie beside Ghost Vine Venerable and suspected the corpse-refining cultivator might know how Xie Yuxin had become an earthly fiend corpse king.
• Gu Cangfeng introduced Ghost Vine Venerable, who demanded ten Lianxiang Association disciples as cultivation cauldrons, then warned the guests against dishonest trading while displaying the Chaste Maiden Ghost King.
• Ghost Vine Venerable and a man in black presented rare spiritual materials, and Myriad Waters True Immortal offered an Azure Sea Ray Egg without revealing the nine-heavens metal essence.
• Shen Luo displayed several spiritual materials, including two Demon Clan materials from the Jing River Dragon King’s Storage Magical Artifact, and the cultivators finished presenting their goods.

Shen Luo traded a Demon Cloud Vine to Ghost Vine Venerable and secretly marked it so he could track him. Myriad Waters True Immortal withdrew his Azure Sea Ray Egg after a fierce bidding war, leaving several cultivators eyeing him and the egg with suspicion.

• Shen Luo gave Ghost Vine Venerable a Demon Cloud Vine in exchange for two Heavenly Eye Pearls and secretly planted a trace of divine sense in the vine.
• Lady Yunxia bought the black-robed man's millennial cold marrow and earth ganoderma essence with four bottles of pills.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal offered his Azure Sea Ray Egg, and Tian Sanqi, Ghost Vine Venerable, and the curly-bearded man drove its price up to fifty thousand pieces of Immortal Jade and a Taiyi Stage dragon tendon.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal returned the curly-bearded man's payment and took back the egg, saying he had another use for it.
• Gu Cangfeng and the Chaste Maiden Ghost King stopped the curly-bearded man from starting a fight, while Ghost Vine Venerable, Tian Sanqi, and other cultivators watched Myriad Waters True Immortal with suspicious interest.

Shen Luo followed Myriad Waters True Immortal to the Boundless Sea of Sand and watched him trick three pursuers with a fake Azure Sea Ray Egg that became a Kui Water Immortal-Annihilating Pearl. Myriad Waters True Immortal escaped with powerful treasures, but the three cultivators caught up and renewed their assault.

• Shen Luo secretly followed Myriad Waters True Immortal from the trading gathering to abandoned ruins in the Boundless Sea of Sand, where three other groups also lay in wait.
• The curly-bearded man, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable demanded the Azure Sea Ray Egg, and Myriad Waters True Immortal tossed it to the curly-bearded man before fleeing.
• The supposed egg transformed into a Kui Water Immortal-Annihilating Pearl and exploded, blasting the curly-bearded man, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable with blue lightning.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal used the Cloud-Chasing Lightning-Pursuing Boots to flee, but a huge white net blocked his path, and his pursuers escaped the blast and caught up.
• The curly-bearded man, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable attacked Myriad Waters True Immortal with their treasures, while he defended himself with the Golden Dragon Twin Shears.

Shen Luo learned that the Azure Sea Ray Egg held the location of Donghua Loose Immortal’s Hidden Residence, and several factions fought to seize Myriad Waters True Immortal and his treasures. A mysterious figure used the Soul-Seizing Demonic Sound to escape with Myriad Waters True Immortal, leaving the other pursuers behind.

• Myriad Waters True Immortal used the Separation Fire Pearl to drive back Yan, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable before fleeing at increased speed.
• Yan revealed that the Azure Sea Ray Egg recorded the location of Donghua Loose Immortal’s Hidden Residence, and Shen Luo sent Zhao Feiji underground.
• Taoxiang and two Golden Pavilion cultivators ambushed Myriad Waters True Immortal, but Lady Yunxia intercepted them and escaped with him on her Starlight Shuttle.
• Lady Yunxia’s Starlight Shuttle created phantom copies, but the Soul-Seizing Demonic Sound disrupted the pursuers and weakened her control of Myriad Waters True Immortal.
• A blurred figure seized Myriad Waters True Immortal and his treasures, then escaped as a crimson sword streak while the flute music faded.

Shen Luo rescued Myriad Waters True Immortal and asked him about the nine-heavens metal essence he sought. Myriad Waters revealed where he had found it, and Shen Luo realized its source had been swallowed by a spatial rift.

• Shen Luo escaped with Myriad Waters True Immortal while Lady Yunxia fled and Taoxiang, Tian Sanqi, Ghost Vine Venerable, and the curly-bearded man pursued them.
• Shen Luo freed Myriad Waters True Immortal from the Free-and-Easy Mirror and explained that he had rescued him to ask about the nine-heavens metal essence.
• Myriad Waters offered Shen Luo the Azure Sea Ray Egg, but Shen Luo refused it and asked instead about the metal essence.
• Myriad Waters gave Shen Luo a piece of nine-heavens metal essence and said he had found it in the Boundless Sea of Sand alongside yin-attribute ores.
• Shen Luo recognized the ores as coming from the Yin-Yang Cavern and concluded that the cavern’s contents had fallen through a spatial rift after Mo Xin destroyed it.

Shen Luo extracted some Southern Radiance Separation Fire from Myriad Waters True Immortal’s Separation Fire Pearl and learned that the Golden Pavilion pursuers were close behind. Myriad Waters True Immortal invited him to search for Donghua Loose Immortal’s Hidden Residence, and they left together to study the Azure Sea Ray Egg.

• Shen Luo traded One-Origin True Water and Immortal Jade for permission to extract Southern Radiance Separation Fire from the Separation Fire Pearl.
• Fire Spirit Child used the Netherfire Refining Furnace to draw enough fire to refine three Pure Yang Swords, and Shen Luo returned the pearl to Myriad Waters True Immortal.
• Shen Luo warned Myriad Waters True Immortal that Yan Lie, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable were pursuing them.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal apologized for his earlier ambush, offered Shen Luo the Separation Fire Pearl, and proposed that they search together for Donghua Loose Immortal’s Hidden Residence.
• Shen Luo agreed to study the Azure Sea Ray Egg and join the search if the Hidden Residence was nearby, then flew away with Myriad Waters True Immortal.
• The three Golden Pavilion pursuers arrived, and Li Biao’s Gray Dolphin Beast tracked the pair’s scent and indicated their direction.

Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal evaded their pursuers while investigating the Azure Sea Ray Egg. Fire Spirit Child revealed that the egg could lead them to a Hidden Residence once hatched, but Shen Luo did not know how to hatch it.

• Yan Lie and his companions decided to follow the Golden Pavilion group and cautiously pursue Myriad Waters True Immortal.
• Shen Luo used the Pure Yang Swords and Heavenly Demon Eye to keep their pursuers at a distance while Myriad Waters True Immortal examined the Azure Sea Ray Egg.
• Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal found no hidden clues in the egg, even after searching it with divine sense and the Netherworld Ghost Eye.
• Fire Spirit Child examined the egg in the Netherfire Refining Furnace and explained that it was a living map connected to an essence-energy placenta hidden in a Hidden Residence.
• Shen Luo learned that a young Azure Sea Ray could sense its placenta after hatching, but he asked how they could hatch the egg without a male ray.

Shen Luo hatched the Azure Sea Ray Egg and followed the young ray to Cloudmist Mountain, where the Hidden Residence was said to be. Yan Lie and the Golden Pavilion pursuers entered the mountain after him, each protected from its illusory mist by a different treasure.

• Fire Spirit Child helped Shen Luo hatch the Azure Sea Ray Egg, and Shen Luo used the Spirit-Linking Demon-Commanding Art to bond with the newborn ray.
• The young ray led Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal south to Cloudmist Mountain, and they followed it into the illusion-filled mist.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal warned Shen Luo that the mountain's mist could trap explorers in illusions, but Shen Luo continued after the ray toward the Hidden Residence.
• Yan Lie and his companions pursued Shen Luo into Cloudmist Mountain using a Heaven-Stinging Pearl to resist the illusions.
• Taoxiang led the Golden Pavilion group into the mist with the Myriad-Mile Cloud Scroll protecting them.

Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal reached the hidden entrance to the Donghua Secret Mansion in Cloudmist Mountain and opened its passage. Yan Lie and his companions were teleported away before they could enter, and the passage sealed behind Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal.

• Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal pressed on through Cloudmist Mountain's illusion fog, and Myriad Waters True Immortal used a Clear Mind Mantra Talisman to resist it.
• Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal found an enormous cliff where the Azure Sea Ray had led them, and Myriad Waters True Immortal used a jade talisman and three flags to open a passage.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal entered the passage, and Shen Luo followed after concealing a blue light within the mist.
• Yan Lie and his two companions rushed toward the opening, but a blue beam teleported them twenty or thirty li away from the cliff.
• Yan Lie and his companions returned to find the passage sealed and the cliff face unchanged.

Yan Lie and his companions located the Hidden Residence, while Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal entered it and found two sealed jade boxes. Shen Luo discovered that the discarded brocade handkerchief had unusual properties and sent it to Fire Spirit Child for examination.

• Tian Sanqi used the Azure Soul Pearl to identify the aura of a True Immortal Stage Mirror Demon that had teleported Yan Lie, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable away.
• Taoxiang arrived with the Golden Pavilion members, and Yan Lie confirmed that Myriad Waters True Immortal had entered the Hidden Residence.
• Yan Lie revealed that his ancestor had left a diagram of the Jade Void Elixir Cauldron Array, and the group prepared to break the entrance restriction.
• Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal appeared in a white jade hall, where Myriad Waters True Immortal found two jade boxes beneath a brocade handkerchief and began breaking their restrictions.
• Shen Luo noticed that the handkerchief concealed the jade boxes' spiritual energy and made divine sense sluggish, so he put it into the Netherfire Refining Furnace for Fire Spirit Child to examine.

Shen Luo discovered a hidden ocean-patterned wall and received a powerful replica fan while Fire Spirit Child examined a mysterious handkerchief. The chamber opened, and Yan Lie attacked Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal, who repelled the flames with his Myriad Waters Banner.

• Fire Spirit Child burned impurities from the brocade handkerchief while Shen Luo released the Azure Sea Young Fish to search the hall.
• The Azure Sea Young Fish vanished into a wall, and Shen Luo used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to reveal blue spiritual patterns resembling a vast ocean inside it.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal opened the jade boxes and gave Shen Luo a replica Five-Fire Seven-Bird Fan, while he obtained the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin.
• Fire Spirit Child told Shen Luo that the handkerchief could be restored after its impurities were refined but withheld its identity.
• The hall entrance opened, and Yan Lie attacked Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal with black-and-red flames.
• Myriad Waters True Immortal summoned the Myriad Waters Banner and used the Myriad Waters Grand Formation to block Yan Lie's flames and hold back Taoxiang's group.

Shen Luo used his Indigo Sea ability and Zhao Feiji’s flute to turn the battle against Yan Lie and the others, forcing Taoxiang to propose a truce. Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal refused to cooperate and left the hall with Zhao Feiji.

• Yan Lie intensified his Black Flame Fire Domain while Tian Sanqi, Ghost Vine Venerable, and the Golden Pavilion members attacked the Myriad Waters Banner’s waves.
• Shen Luo froze the hall and trapped Yan Lie and the others, then summoned Zhao Feiji to play the Dragon-Burying Flute and attacked Yan Lie with the Bloodstained Demon Blade.
• Taoxiang blocked Shen Luo’s blade with her peachwood sword and proposed a truce, apologizing for Yan Lie’s attack.
• Taoxiang suggested that the nine cultivators join forces to explore the Donghua Secret Mansion, but Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal rejected the offer because of their old grudges.
• Shen Luo stopped Zhao Feiji’s flute and led himself, Myriad Waters True Immortal, and Zhao Feiji through the blue ice and out of the hall.

Shen Luo entered a sprawling manor filled with ancient spiritual herbs and discovered a study containing several powerful treasures. After Taoxiang arrived and fought him for the treasures, she used a talisman to teleport the inkstone and jade brush away while Shen Luo had secured the folding fan.

• Shen Luo and Myriad Waters True Immortal found a passage in the frozen hall and entered it, followed by Taoxiang, Yan Lie, Tian Sanqi, and Ghost Vine Venerable.
• Shen Luo arrived alone in a manor surrounded by dense illusory fog and found medicinal herbs thousands of years old.
• Shen Luo broke through a light barrier and entered a study containing an inkstone, a jade brush, an azure folding fan, and a painting of a young man who seemed familiar to him.
• Taoxiang appeared and tried to seize the treasures, but Shen Luo broke her attack and knocked her back with his staff.
• Shen Luo used the Free-and-Easy Mirror to claim the folding fan, while Taoxiang activated a talisman that transported the inkstone and jade brush into its formation.