Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan escaped the Black-and-White Fiends into the Serene Nether Sea, where he discovered that the Purple-Gold Gourd had swallowed his Corpse Yin Demonfire. He found Dream-Demon True Lord’s hidden Qiankun Island and its cultivation legacy, and began considering where to safely form his Nascent Soul.

• Ji Yuan fled south on the Star-Treading Wheel, leaving Mei Zhuang and the Black-and-White Fiends unable to catch him; the three turned back to discuss the Teleportation Formation and the growing turmoil between continents.
• Ji Yuan reached the empty Serene Nether Sea, discovered that Tuesday retained his awareness, and renamed the two Chi Dragons Long Fei and Long Yun.
• The Purple-Gold Gourd escaped Ji Yuan’s sword formation and swallowed his Corpse Yin Demonfire, leaving him unable to control or communicate with the treasure.
• Long Fei carried Ji Yuan to inhabited islands, where an elder directed him toward Qiankun Island; Ji Yuan used his Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to locate and breach the island’s Fourth-Tier Formation.
• Ji Yuan uncovered Dream-Demon True Lord’s hidden Cave Abode and copied the Great Dream Demon Scripture, the Soul-Seeking Art, and other techniques from its walls.
• Ji Yuan decided that his next priority was finding a safe place to form his Nascent Soul, since returning to the Lesser Abyss Continent seemed too dangerous.

Ji Yuan discovered a method that could improve his chances of forming a Nascent Soul and continued south through the Serene Nether Sea, where he encountered the Hundred-Blossom Immortal and learned about the Star-River Archipelago. The chapter ended with him questioning a group of cultivators about the region and learning that the archipelago’s famed beauty was the Hundred Flowers Maiden of the Cloud-Rain Sect.

• Ji Yuan found the Five-Element Pure-Spirit Method, decided to seek a safe place to form his Nascent Soul, destroyed Dream-Demon True Lord’s inheritance, and departed Qiankun Island with Long Yun.
• Yun Qianzai and Feng Zhitáo discussed Wen Ling’er’s cultivation, the Water Dragon Sect’s precarious position, and their hopes of returning to Cangluo to reunite with Ji Yuan and Ran Kui.
• Ji Yuan crossed the Serene Nether Sea, disguised himself, and encountered the Hundred-Blossom Immortal, who gave him a Cloud-Rain Sect token before flying south.
• Ji Yuan questioned Foundation Establishment cultivators aboard a tower ship and learned that he had reached the Star-River Archipelago, near the Desolate Ancient Continent and the Star-River Three Sects.
• Ji Yuan took a sea chart and learned that the region’s celebrated beauty, Hundred Flowers Maiden, belonged to the Cloud-Rain Sect.

Ji Yuan visited the Star-River Three Sects to decide where to pursue cultivation, ruling out the Heavenly Sword Sect and Pill Cauldron Sect before choosing the Cloud-Rain Sect. At its mountain gate, he contacted Hundred-Blossom Immortal, whose connection to the archipelago remained a mystery.

• Ji Yuan learned about the Star-River Three Sects and the Four Demonic Dao Sects, then traveled to Heavenly Sword Island to observe the Heavenly Sword Sect's disdain for Rogue Cultivators.
• Ji Yuan visited Alchemy Cauldron Island, saw the Pill Cauldron Sect's relentless pressure to refine pills, and ruled it out as a place to join.
• Daoist Carefree proposed that the Cloud-Rain Sect, Heavenly Sword Sect, and Pill Cauldron Sect seize the Blood Shadow Cult's Spirit Vein on Copper Turtle Island, and Gu Qing and True Person Dan Hui agreed to consider joining forces.
• Ji Yuan explored Cloud-Rain Island, saw its disciples help mortals and treat people well, and decided to join the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• At the Cloud-Rain Sect's mountain gate, Ji Yuan sent a message to Hundred-Blossom Immortal announcing his arrival.

Ji Yuan joined the Cloud-Rain Sect under the name Xu Beimu and chose its neglected Wine-Brewing Peak so he could cultivate in peace. After restoring the peak and entering seclusion, he emerged twenty years later at the peak of Golden Core Formation.

• Daoist Carefree welcomed Ji Yuan into the Cloud-Rain Sect, where he completed his admission and received a Soul Lamp.
• Ji Yuan declined the chance to establish a new peak and chose Wine-Brewing Peak, where Old Drunkard became his fellow peak master.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang discussed the sect’s troubles, including the threat to its holdings and the absence of Senior Brother Huang and Senior Brother Zhao.
• Ji Yuan arranged a Cave Abode, had Wine-Brewing Peak cleaned and repaired, and set up a protective Formation.
• Ji Yuan entered seclusion to cultivate and study his inheritances, then emerged twenty years later at the peak of Golden Core Formation.

After twenty years in seclusion, Ji Yuan emerged to find the Cloud-Rain Sect under pressure from rival sects and suppressed two Nascent Soul visitors with a display of Divine Sense. He agreed to lead the sect’s disciples into Blood Sword Island, then continued refining his Blood Core as he prepared for Nascent Soul Formation.

• Ji Yuan discovered that rumors of Elder Xuanji’s death had drawn the Heavenly Sword Sect and Pill Cauldron Sect to demand his appearance, while Old Drunkard had been injured and worn down by the sect’s troubles.
• Ji Yuan used Divine Sense Manifestation to frighten Jian Wuya and Dan Xuzi into leaving the Cloud-Rain Sect, then gave Old Drunkard a healing pill and urged him to attempt a breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan learned from his surveillance that Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang knew an unknown Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator had intervened, and he kept his identity hidden.
• Ji Yuan welcomed Old Drunkard’s return to cultivation and turned down other peak masters’ messages, but received Daoist Carefree and agreed to lead Cloud-Rain Sect disciples into Blood Sword Island.
• Ji Yuan considered improving his Blood Core into a Violet Core before forming a Nascent Soul, worried about the Purple-Gold Gourd in his Dantian, and swallowed a Four-Color Spirit Egg to continue purifying his core.

Ji Yuan led the Cloud-Rain Sect disciples toward Blood Sword Island and humiliated the arrogant Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator Xing Jian when he tried to provoke a fight. After the three sects reached Sword Gate Island to rest, Ji Yuan sensed a ghost among the Heavenly Sword Sect disciples.

• Ji Yuan accepted the Blood Sword Island mission and token from Daoist Carefree, then departed with nearly three hundred Cloud-Rain Sect disciples in a carriage pulled by two Winged Sky-Soaring Tigers.
• On the way, Ji Yuan confronted Xing Jian, who aimed the Heavenly Sword Sect’s flying sword at the Cloud-Rain Sect carriage, and left him terrified after trapping him in an illusion and nearly striking him down.
• Huang Xiu of the Pill Cauldron Sect tried to prevent the sects from fighting, then led her group after the Heavenly Sword Sect while Ji Yuan followed with the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• The three sects arrived at Sword Gate Island, where the Qi Refining disciples set up camp to rest before continuing to Blood Sword Island.
• Ji Yuan examined the Pill Cauldron Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect disciples with his Divine Sense and discovered a ghost among the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Ji Yuan uncovered and killed Zhou Po, a Blood Shadow Cult infiltrator who had entered Blood Sword Island to sow a blood-fed demonic seed, then helped open the island for the three sects’ disciples. When the disciples began dying in huge numbers inside, Ji Yuan and the other elders could only wait for the passage to reopen; a brutal Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator named Zhu Guang arrived and killed Xing Jian, leaving Ji Yuan and Huang Xiu facing him.

• Ji Yuan detected that a square-faced Heavenly Sword Sect disciple was secretly a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator and used Dream Butterfly to isolate him from the others.
• Ji Yuan used the Soul-Seeking Art on the man, learned he was Zhou Po of the Blood Shadow Cult, discovered his plan to plant a blood-fed demonic seed, and took his soul and corpse.
• Ji Yuan returned to Sword Gate Island, checked the other cultivators, and helped Huang Xiu and Xing Jian open the passage so the Qi Refining disciples could enter Blood Sword Island.
• Five days later, the Life-Guiding Plates showed that disciples from all three sects were dying rapidly inside the island, while the elders were unable to reopen the passage or enter themselves.
• Xing Jian summoned a helper, and after the disciples’ numbers dwindled to fewer than ten per sect, Zhu Guang arrived; Huang Xiu identified him as a murderous Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator once imprisoned beneath Sword Cliff.
• Zhu Guang killed Xing Jian with sword qi and asked Ji Yuan and Huang Xiu which of them would die first.

Ji Yuan killed Zhu Guang after thwarting his attempt to open Blood Sword Island, then stopped a demonic beast and rescued the surviving disciples. Back at the Cloud-Rain Sect, he learned that the small blood-red sword was the Spirit-Piercing Blood Sword, which could weaken the Nascent Soul Heart Demon during Nascent Soul Formation.

• Zhu Guang attacked Ji Yuan with demonic blood swords, but Ji Yuan’s Zixiao Divine Thunder broke his weapons and overwhelmed his sword arts.
• Zhu Guang fled to Blood Sword Island and tried to activate its formation, but Ji Yuan caught and killed him, then captured his ghost in the Thousand-Soul Banner.
• A Late Third Tier Bloodthirsty Moon-Swallowing Hound and a disguised Heavenly Sword Sect disciple emerged from the passage, and Ji Yuan killed the disciple and subdued the beast.
• Ji Yuan escorted the surviving disciples away and brought the Bloodthirsty Moon-Swallowing Hound to Daoist Carefree, who agreed that the Four Demonic Dao Sects must answer for the incident.
• After Ji Yuan returned to Wine-Brewing Peak, he searched the sect records and identified the unstoreable blood-red sword as the Spirit-Piercing Blood Sword, which weakened the Nascent Soul Heart Demon.

After reaching the Golden Core Peak Stage, Ji Yuan learned the methods and risks of Nascent Soul Formation from Hundred-Blossom Immortal and prepared to attempt the breakthrough. After years of cultivation and eating Four-Color Spirit Eggs, he perfected his Violet Core, and the Purple-Gold Gourd opened to reveal a mysterious woman’s voice.

• Ji Yuan stored the Spirit-Piercing Blood Sword and planted the demonic seed in Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang discussed the Blood Sword Island incident and agreed to support Ji Yuan’s Nascent Soul Formation despite uncertainty about his loyalty to the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• The Star-River Three Sects allied against the Four Demonic Dao Sects, which eventually offered compensation after negotiations and conflict.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal explained core-shattering and the Heart-Demon Tribulation to Ji Yuan, and offered to lend him a personal treasure for his breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan cultivated the Five-Element Pure-Spirit Method, consumed Four-Color Spirit Eggs, and refined his Blood Core into the Violet Core Realm.
• The Purple-Gold Gourd opened, and a woman inside asked Ji Yuan where his endless Four-Color Spirit Eggs came from.

Ji Yuan trapped the Purple-Gold Gourd inside Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, killed its remnant soul Zi Qi, and recovered a method for creating an artifact spirit. He used the method to give Tu Yue consciousness, leaving her newly alive and in his arms.

• Ji Yuan moved the Purple-Gold Gourd from his Dantian into Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and confronted the woman inside it.
• The woman revealed herself as Zi Qi and offered treasures, knowledge, and a pact in exchange for help seeking revenge and obtaining a body.
• Ji Yuan rejected Zi Qi’s proposals because she knew too much, then attacked her with the God-Slaying Spear and used the Soul-Seeking Art to recover her memories.
• Ji Yuan found the artifact-spirit method in Zi Qi’s memories and chose Tu Yue to become the spirit of Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan completed the fusion, and Tu Yue gained consciousness before collapsing into his arms.

Ji Yuan prepared to form his Nascent Soul after learning how to awaken the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed, and he obtained the missing Six-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass and a talisman from Hundred-Blossom Immortal. He returned to Wine-Brewing Peak and began seclusion, while Hundred-Blossom Immortal ordered the sect’s grand formation activated.

• Ji Yuan learned from Zi Qi’s memories that Tu Yue’s Corpse-Liberation Body had nurtured a new Divine Soul, and he left her in charge of Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan discovered a method to awaken the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed for his Heart-Demon Tribulation, but he still needed Six-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass.
• Ji Yuan learned that Daoist Carefree was away and contacted Hundred-Blossom Immortal to request the spiritual plant.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal gave Ji Yuan a stalk of Six-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass and a Spirit-Guarding Talisman to help with his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan returned to Wine-Brewing Peak and began seclusion, while Hundred-Blossom Immortal ordered Formation Peak to activate the sect’s grand formation.

Ji Yuan shattered his Violet Core, formed a Nascent Soul, and endured a Heart-Demon Tribulation that confronted him with life without his Panel. After affirming his resolve to pursue the Great Dao even if he died, he overcame the Heart Demon, but the Nascent Soul Phenomenon began as he awoke in the Spirit Vein.

• The Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Zhou Cang that Xu Beimu had entered seclusion to attempt Nascent Soul Formation, and the sect prepared to protect him.
• Ji Yuan and Tu Yue revived the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed, and Ji Yuan entered seclusion inside the Spirit Vein with supplies for his breakthrough.
• Ji Yuan used giant Azure Waves Swords to shatter his Violet Core, then gathered its fragments to form his Nascent Soul.
• Ji Yuan swallowed the remaining Nascent-Soul Fruit and the Void Sacred Heart Lotus seed as his Heart-Demon Tribulation began, plunging him into illusions of his earlier life and possible deaths without the Panel.
• Ji Yuan faced his Heart Demon and declared that he would continue pursuing the Great Dao even if he died, overcoming the tribulation.
• The Heart Demon congratulated Ji Yuan on becoming a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Ji Yuan awoke to find that the Nascent Soul Phenomenon had begun.

Ji Yuan formed his Nascent Soul and emerged from seclusion, then met with Zhou Cang and the Hundred-Blossom Immortal to discuss staying in the Cloud-Rain Sect. He revealed that Xu Beimu was an alias and that his real name was Ji Yuan, the Ji of Old Devil Ji.

• Ji Yuan formed his Nascent Soul while concealing most of the phenomenon, and cultivators across the region mistook his restrained display for a weak breakthrough.
• Dan Yangzi and Dan Xuzi, then Jian Wuchen and Jian Wuya, sensed the phenomenon and underestimated Ji Yuan's strength.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Ji Yuan discovered a formation-hidden cave beneath a waterfall and decided to speak with the Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang before investigating it.
• Ji Yuan emerged from seclusion, heard Old Drunkard report on events across the continents, and accepted Zhou Cang's invitation to the Founders' Hall.
• Zhou Cang and the Hundred-Blossom Immortal asked Ji Yuan to stay in the Cloud-Rain Sect, and Ji Yuan revealed that Xu Beimu was an alias and his real name was Ji Yuan, the Ji of Old Devil Ji.

Ji Yuan revealed his identity to Zhou Cang and Hundred-Blossom Immortal, joined the Cloud-Rain Sect, and learned that it shared a hidden connection with the Wave-Listening Pavilion. After discovering both sects were weakened by two missing Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators, Ji Yuan settled at the Pavilion to cultivate and began studying the Azure Billow Sword Formation.

• Ji Yuan revealed his true appearance, and Zhou Cang and Hundred-Blossom Immortal welcomed him as a fellow Cloud-Rain Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Zhou Cang and Hundred-Blossom Immortal showed Ji Yuan the Flowers in the Mirror, Moon on the Water Formation, which connected the Cloud-Rain Sect to the Wave-Listening Pavilion.
• Ji Yuan learned that the Cloud-Rain Sect and Wave-Listening Pavilion were one sect, with only Zhou Cang, Hundred-Blossom Immortal, and Ji Yuan remaining as Nascent Soul Cultivators after Senior Brother Huang and Senior Brother Zhao disappeared in a Secret Realm.
• Zhou Cang planned to return to the Cloud-Rain Sect while Hundred-Blossom Immortal stayed at the Pavilion, and Ji Yuan chose to cultivate in seclusion there.
• Ji Yuan named a peak Worry-Free Peak, installed several buildings inside the Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and began studying the Azure Billow Sword Formation.

After being installed as the Cloud-Rain Sect’s Grand Elder, Ji Yuan discovered that the Daoheart Demon Seed had been influencing his judgment and fought off its attempt to take control of him. He fully refined the seed and began considering his next cultivation and building upgrades.

• Ji Yuan returned to the Cloud-Rain Sect, received Dan Xuzi’s Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Jian Wuchen’s Sword-Soul Stone, and heard about a future Nascent Soul Trade Fair in Beihuang City.
• Hundred-Blossom Immortal formally presented Xu Beimu as the Cloud-Rain Sect’s newly appointed Grand Elder before the sect’s disciples and elders.
• Ji Yuan examined the Daoheart Demon Seed and realized it had fueled his recklessness and could influence him even while he was refining it.
• When the Demon Seed sent black light at his Divine Soul, Ji Yuan crushed it with his Nascent Soul power and God-Slaying Spear, then completed its refinement.
• Ji Yuan moved the subdued Demon Seed beside the Soul-Calming Bell in his Sea of Consciousness and decided to resume studying the Sword Canon and try upgrading the Spirit Vein, which required a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.

Ji Yuan planned upgrades for his cultivation buildings, mastered the Thousand-Whorl Sword Domain, and refined the Purple-Gold Gourd before gathering leads from the Hundred-Blossom Immortal. After learning the Soul-Refining Hall controlled a Spirit Vein with a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, he upgraded his Thousand-Soul Banner and set out to take the stone.

• Ji Yuan listed the Immortal Resources needed to upgrade four buildings and decided to seek the Hundred-Blossom Immortal's advice after comprehending the Thousand-Whorl Sword Domain.
• Ji Yuan refined the Purple-Gold Gourd and released its flames, startling the Hundred-Blossom Immortal; he then asked her about the resources he needed and the Soul-Refining Hall.
• The Hundred-Blossom Immortal told Ji Yuan where to find Heavenly Origin Resin, the Heart-Corroding Locust Tree, and the Heart-Devouring Willow, and agreed to provide intelligence on the Soul-Refining Hall's Spirit Veins and defenses.
• Ji Yuan studied the intelligence, identified a remote Soul-Refining Hall Spirit Vein that contained a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, and decided to strike before the Many-Ghost Devil Master could pose a threat.
• Ji Yuan refined Ying Changkong's yin soul into his Thousand-Soul Banner, advancing it into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• After finishing his preparations, Ji Yuan informed the Hundred-Blossom Immortal that he was leaving and headed west to take a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone from the Soul-Refining Hall.

Ji Yuan infiltrated Northwatch Mountain to seize the Soul-Refining Hall’s Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, but discovered that the Many-Ghost Devil Master was guarding it. He defeated the Devil Master’s manifested form, planted demonic qi in the part that escaped, and claimed the Spirit Stone.

• Ji Yuan ambushed two Soul-Refining Hall Foundation Establishment cultivators, killed them, and searched their memories for information about Northwatch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan used his Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to breach Northwatch Mountain’s Fourth-Tier Formation and found no Nascent Soul aura, then descended into the Spirit Vein toward the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.
• As Ji Yuan began dismantling the Formation around the Spirit Stone, the Many-Ghost Devil Master appeared and revealed that he was gathering power from the Core Formation Cultivators in the mountain.
• Ji Yuan refused the Many-Ghost Devil Master’s offer to join the Soul-Refining Hall and released the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, sending its ghosts to attack the cultivators and plunder Spirit Stones.
• The Many-Ghost Devil Master used his Dharma Treasures against Ji Yuan, but Tu Yue damaged the Myriad Ghost Lamp and Ji Yuan’s Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain crushed the Devil Master’s manifested form.
• The Many-Ghost Devil Master escaped as ghostly qi, but Ji Yuan sent demonic qi into him before crushing the remaining wisps and claiming the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.

Ji Yuan defeated the Many-Ghost Devil Master, took Northwatch Mountain’s Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone, and used it to upgrade his Spirit Vein before deciding to return to Cangluo. After reaching Winterfrost City, he reunited with Xing Shuang, learned the Eight Sacred Grounds and Black-and-White Divine Hall were hunting him, and received a troubling message from a weakened Wen Jiu.

• The Many-Ghost Devil Master persuaded the Soul Hall Master to inspect Northwatch Mountain and consider joining him in attacking the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but they found Ji Yuan gone and the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone taken.
• Ji Yuan upgraded his Spirit Vein to Level Four, cultivated amid the surge of spiritual energy, and saw that the next upgrade required Low-Grade Purple Spirit Stones and other resources.
• Ji Yuan chose to travel to Cangluo rather than return to the Wave-Listening Pavilion, and Long Yun carried Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain toward Winterfrost City.
• The Hundred-Blossom Immortal recognized that Ji Yuan was the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner after hearing he had defeated the Many-Ghost Devil Master and stolen the Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Ji Yuan met Xing Shuang in Winterfrost City, learned that his portrait was circulating and that the Eight Sacred Grounds and Black-and-White Divine Hall were hunting him, then left to see Wen Jiu.
• Wen Jiu replied to Ji Yuan in a notably weak voice, saying he was glad Ji Yuan had returned.

Ji Yuan learned that Wen Jiu’s wife, Yan Lanlan, had been killed in a plot backed by High Person Jin’s family, and revealed that he had formed his Nascent Soul before agreeing to help Wen Jiu seek revenge. Ji Yuan infiltrated Jin Vulture Peak and killed Xue Shou, leaving High Person Jin to respond.

• Ji Yuan found Wen Jiu gravely injured in Winterfrost City and healed most of his wounds with Qi-Blood Pills.
• Wen Jiu told Ji Yuan that Yan Lanlan had died in a sand-bandit attack arranged by Xue Shou, High Person Jin’s legitimate son, after Wen Jiu acquired treasures in the Rakshasa Sea.
• Ji Yuan revealed that he was Old Devil Ji and had formed his Nascent Soul, then learned that High Person Jin was likely a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator based at Jin Vulture Peak.
• Wen Jiu gave Ji Yuan a Jade Slip containing information about Jin Vulture Peak, and Ji Yuan traveled there using concealment techniques.
• Ji Yuan entered Jin Vulture Peak during the funeral for High Person Jin’s younger brother and identified Xue Shou among the mourners.
• Ji Yuan beheaded Xue Shou and threw his head down the steps as a funeral gift, challenging High Person Jin.

Ji Yuan killed Vulture High Person with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye, then learned that the Black-and-White Divine Hall had launched a manhunt for the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Returning to Winterfrost City, he found Wen Jiu gone and hurried toward Cold Bamboo Valley to find him.

• Ji Yuan chased down Vulture High Person, destroyed his treasures with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, and killed him with the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye before capturing his ghost in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Ji Yuan collected Vulture High Person's corpse and belongings, found the Ebony Soul-Nourishing Hairpin, and left a message claiming the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was responsible.
• Black Elder confirmed Vulture High Person's death, ordered a Nascent Soul Gathering, and issued a manhunt for the Master of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• At Wave-Listening Pavilion, Hundred-Blossom Immortal and Zhou Cang suspected Ji Yuan had killed Vulture High Person and agreed to help him if his identity was exposed.
• Ji Yuan returned to Winterfrost City and found Wen Jiu's courtyard empty, then learned from a Voice-Recording Talisman that Wen Jiu had gone to Cold Bamboo Valley.
• Ji Yuan left for Cold Bamboo Valley to find Wen Jiu.