Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan and his allies destroyed the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and the cultivators of the Abyssal Continent hailed him as its new ruler. A mysterious Nascent Soul Peak Daoist appeared and moved to seize Fairy Mei, but High Person Qianzhen intervened.

• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord stunned White Elder with the Soul-Shaking Gong, then destroyed his body and crushed his Nascent Soul.
• After White Elder died, Ji Yuan and his allies killed the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators of the Black-and-White Divine Hall.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord saluted Ji Yuan as the Lord of the Abyssal Depths, and cultivators across the mountain and Black-and-White City joined in the acclaim.
• Ji Yuan and the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord detected a hidden Nascent Soul Peak old Daoist, who revealed that he had once appeared in Fallen Immortal Ravine.
• The old Daoist crossed to Fairy Mei, asked what Tian Wenjing would choose between his great Dao and his mother, and reached for her.
• High Person Qianzhen appeared beside Fairy Mei and stopped the old Daoist's hand.

Tian Wenjing revealed himself as High Person Qianzhen and fought the mysterious old Daoist over their divided Clone Dao technique, then agreed to a temporary truce. Ji Yuan learned the old Daoist was Icefire Old Man’s true body and encountered the Giant Toad again.

• Tian Wenjing revealed his identity as High Person Qianzhen, freed Fairy Mei, and explained that he had been searching for the old Daoist and the other half of their technique.
• The old Daoist and Tian Wenjing agreed to fight elsewhere, leaving the summit while Ji Yuan appointed the Formation Old Freak to oversee the aftermath of the Black-and-White Divine Hall’s defeat.
• Ji Yuan and the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord followed the two Nascent Soul Peak cultivators to the Northern Wilderness and watched them battle to a standstill with their clone techniques and divine abilities.
• Tian Wenjing and the old Daoist stopped fighting and agreed to resume their conflict later, with the old Daoist saying he would travel to the Desolate Orchid Continent.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord departed, and the old Daoist revealed that he was Icefire Old Man’s true body before summoning the Giant Toad before Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan reunited with the Giant Toad and learned that Spirit-Communing High Person’s clone art let a person live an independent life while sharing his cultivation insights. After consolidating his rule over the Abyssal Continent, Ji Yuan founded Immortal Prison and became its Prison Lord, then asked Ghost Envoy why he had urged him to choose that name.

• Ji Yuan recognized the Giant Toad he had once left on Mist Island, and the toad joyfully reunited with him.
• Spirit-Communing High Person explained that his clone art reincarnated a wisp of spiritual light, allowing a clone to live as an independent person while its experiences returned to him.
• Spirit-Communing High Person departed, and Ji Yuan returned to the Black-and-White Divine Mountain to stabilize the Abyssal Continent.
• Ji Yuan’s forces uprooted the Black-and-White Divine Hall’s remaining power, restored order in Black-and-White City, established laws for the sects, and distributed the fallen hall’s resources.
• When his allies urged him to name a new sect, Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan to call it Immortal Prison; Ji Yuan accepted and declared the mountain Immortal Prison Mountain, the city Immortal Prison City, and himself the Prison Lord.
• The Nascent Soul experts and cultivators across the city hailed Ji Yuan as Prison Lord, and he asked Ghost Envoy why he had chosen the name.

Ji Yuan followed the Ghost Envoy’s directions to a colossal Bronze Gate beneath Immortal Prison Mountain and entered an immense prison in the Void. The Ghost Envoy revealed that the Abyssal Continent had once been the Immortal Court’s Outer Prison and explained that the Court fell after the Ascension Path was severed and a true demon descended from the Demon Realm.

• Ji Yuan established Immortal Prison’s Elders’ Council, assigned seven elders their duties, and left to investigate a private matter.
• Ji Yuan traveled through the Northern Region’s main earth vein to a vast Bronze Gate above an abyss, where Long Fei and Long Yun guarded the entrance.
• Ji Yuan pushed open the gate and entered the endless prison, where he met the Ghost Envoy.
• The Ghost Envoy revealed that the Immortal Court had ruled the Human Realm and that the Abyssal Continent had been its Outer Prison, while the prison beyond the gate was its Inner Prison.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Ascension Path had been severed, throwing the Immortal Court into fear and conflict, before a true demon descended from the Demon Realm.

The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan how a True Demon’s promise of ascension through killing shattered the Immortal Court and plunged the Human Realm into the Chaotic Era. She explained that the Abyssal Continent had been the Immortal Court’s prison and revealed that she had served as Registrar of its Immortal Prison, leaving the origin of the Yin Ghost Sect unexplained.

• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that the True Demon settled on the Demon God Continent and revealed that killing ten Mahayana Cultivators of the same level could grant ascension.
• The Ghost Envoy recounted how a friendly Mahayana Cultivator secretly killed nine peers and then his father, ascended before Lingxiao Hall, and triggered the Immortal Court’s collapse and the Chaotic Era.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Immortal Court’s last lord and two other Mahayana Cultivators led a campaign against the True Demon on the Desolate Ancient Continent, where all three leaders and the demon died.
• The Ghost Envoy described how the ensuing chaos lasted more than ten thousand years and how the Abyssal Continent’s prisoners and guards dispersed after the Immortal Court fell.
• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that the Abyssal Continent had been the Immortal Court’s prison and revealed that she had served as Registrar under its last warden.

Ji Yuan learned the Immortal Prison’s history and its power to control even Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, then accepted the title of Lord of the Immortal Prison and refined its seal. He discovered that the prison and the Abyssal Continent’s protective Formation were badly damaged, while Registrar Pei Ming bowed to him and the Panel listed the Immortal Prison as Lv1, unable to be upgraded.

• Ji Yuan learned that the Yin Ghost Sect descended from the Yin God Sect, whose disciple had inherited the ruined Immortal Prison but never entered its Inner Prison.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Immortal Prison could punish and ultimately control cultivators, absorbing their cultivation knowledge and insights even at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that becoming Lord of the Immortal Prison would make him the rightful successor to the Immortal Court, and Ji Yuan agreed to inherit the position.
• The Ghost Envoy presented Ji Yuan with the Immortal Prison Seal, and Ji Yuan refined it to become master of the prison.
• Ji Yuan sensed that the Abyssal Continent’s colossal Formation was ruined and that only two of the Immortal Prison’s weakest cells remained intact.
• Registrar Pei Ming bowed to Ji Yuan as Prison Lord, and the Panel displayed [Immortal Prison: Lv1 (Cannot be upgraded)].

Ji Yuan learned the Immortal Prison’s powers, limitations, and hidden treasures, then received a Dao-Watching Stone to help him create his own cultivation method. After making the Inner Prison portable, he delegated sect affairs and entered the Dao Comprehension Chamber to study.

• Ji Yuan examined the Immortal Prison’s effects and upgrade requirements, then learned from the Ghost Envoy that the Soul-Eroding Ants were extinct and the Voidbright Stones had crumbled.
• The Ghost Envoy explained how damaged Spirit Transformation cells could be rebuilt and revealed four dangerous treasures sealed in the Inner Prison, warning Ji Yuan against taking them out.
• The Ghost Envoy gave Ji Yuan a Dao-Watching Stone and urged him to create his own cultivation method as he prepared to pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Ji Yuan learned that he could carry the Inner Prison and Bronze Gate with him, shrank the gate, and returned to Immortal Prison Mountain with Long Fei and Long Yun.
• Ji Yuan told Feng Zhitáo, Yun Qianzai, Liu Yuan, and the others to manage the sect while he went into seclusion, then left Long Yun to guard the Bronze Gate and entered the Dao Comprehension Chamber.

Ji Yuan spent ten years in seclusion creating Sword Nine, a nine-level sword art that fused swordsmanship, body cultivation, and soul cultivation. He completed its first four levels, corresponding to Qi Refining through Nascent Soul, and emerged from the Dao Comprehension Chamber while the Cangluo Continent’s leaders awaited his judgment.

• Ji Yuan used the Dao-Watching Stone to review his battles and cultivation, then resolved to create a sword art spanning all nine cultivation realms.
• Ji Yuan built Sword Nine around the unity of sword, body, and soul, refining its framework throughout ten years of contemplation.
• Immortal Prison’s rule brought peace to the Abyssal Continent, while six sacred grounds of the Desolate Ancient Continent established ties with Ji Yuan’s domain.
• New sects formed under Immortal Prison’s authority, and the Cangluo Continent’s Flame Palace and Orthodox Dao Sect sent gifts and the captured Blood Luo King’s Nascent Soul, awaiting Ji Yuan’s decision.
• Ji Yuan completed Sword Nine’s first four forms—Dawnbreak, Mountain-Forging, Starpoint, and Body in Fire—then emerged from seclusion.

After ten years in seclusion, Ji Yuan returned to Immortal Prison Mountain, assessed the sect’s affairs, and dealt with old enemies as a war loomed on the Desolate Ancient Continent. The chapter ended when Mu Xueyao showed him a Spirit Beast Bag and a Sound Transmission Talisman belonging to someone he recognized.

• Ji Yuan emerged from seclusion, and Liu Yuan remarked on how much his bearing had changed despite his cultivation remaining at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Feng Zhitáo reported that the Abyssal and Cangluo Continents were stable, while clashes at the Three Southern Passes threatened to become a Nascent Soul War; Ji Yuan told Yun Qianzai to return ahead of him.
• Liu Yuan told Ji Yuan that Zhou Cang had been troubled for six months, so Ji Yuan asked the Hundred-Blossom Immortal to find out what was wrong.
• Ji Yuan destroyed the Blood Luo King’s Nascent Soul and gave the Palace Master of the Flame Palace and the sect master of the Orthodox Dao Sect one year to root out evil forces and establish order on the Cangluo Continent.
• Ji Yuan handled accumulated sect business, advised promising disciples, and reunited with Bai Yunzi, who was preparing to return to the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Mu Xueyao returned from Southern Border City and showed Ji Yuan a Spirit Beast Bag and a Sound Transmission Talisman, surprising him.

Ji Yuan learned that the Spirit-Communing High Person had left to fight Tian Wenjing and took in the Giant Toad, while Mu Xueyao set out to explore the Desolate Ancient Continent. He agreed to rescue Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang from a dangerous Secret Realm in the Cinnabar Sea, and the chapter ended when Zhou Cang reported that it had emerged.

• Ji Yuan heard the Spirit-Communing High Person's farewell message, learned of his death-or-ascension duel with Tian Wenjing, and welcomed the Giant Toad into the Immortal Prison.
• Mu Xueyao decided to explore the Desolate Ancient Continent, and Ji Yuan gave her three flasks of Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew for protection.
• Zhou Cang told Ji Yuan that Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang had vanished inside a Cinnabar Sea Secret Realm said to hold the Secret of Spirit Transformation, and Ji Yuan agreed to rescue them.
• Ji Yuan opened the Purple-Gold Gourd and revealed a Form-Spirit Pill, then sealed it away while preparing for the Secret Realm.
• A month later, Zhou Cang informed Ji Yuan that the Secret Realm had emerged.

Ji Yuan arranged for Feng Zhitáo to bring the Water Dragon Sect back from the Desolate Ancient Continent and sent Liu Yuan to help Long Ba unify the Sea Ruins. As Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang prepared to detonate their Secret Realm’s core to escape, Ji Yuan arrived at the Cinnabar Sea, where the Secret Realm gate had drawn powerful cultivators from across the continent.

• Ji Yuan asked Feng Zhitáo to retrieve the Water Dragon Sect from the Taiyi Immortal Sect and gave her gifts to present in thanks.
• Ji Yuan tasked Liu Yuan with helping Long Ba take control of the Sea Ruins, explaining that Long Ba would guard the seas and keep Immortal Prison’s disciples vigilant.
• Trapped in the Secret Realm for seventy-eight years, Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang prepared to blow up its core as two Fifth Tier Demon Beasts fought nearby.
• Zhou Cang gave Ji Yuan the Cloud-Rain Sect Leader’s Seal and a Sound Transmission Talisman to prove his identity to Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang.
• Ji Yuan flew to the Cinnabar Sea, where cultivators gathered around the blood-red gate, and Dan Xuzi and Jian Wuchen greeted him as Lord of the Abyssal Depths.

Ji Yuan faced several Nascent Soul Peak cultivators at the Cinnabar Sea while waiting for the Ancient Secret Realm to open. The Secret Realm collapsed, but Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang escaped, and Ji Yuan stood between them and Duan Qianchui, who hesitated to attack.

• Dan Xuzi identified Duan Qianchui, Mo Zhenzi, and Xu Danzi as Nascent Soul Peak cultivators gathered above the Cinnabar Sea.
• Duan Qianchui tried to claim the Secret Realm for himself, drove away weaker cultivators with his pressure, and warned Ji Yuan about competing for its treasures.
• The Ultimate Dao Devil Lord arrived, while Dan Xuzi and Jian Wuchen tried to leave; Ji Yuan warned them he would visit their sects, and they fled.
• The Ghost Envoy told Ji Yuan that someone inside was forcing the Secret Realm gate open, and Ji Yuan realized Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang might be in danger.
• Mo Zhenzi wrongly declared that a Treasured Artifact was emerging as the Secret Realm collapsed; the resulting shockwave injured Duan Qianchui and Mo Zhenzi, and the Secret Realm broke into fragments.
• Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang escaped after seventy-eight years inside the Secret Realm, recognized Ji Yuan through Zhou Cang's seal and message, and were protected by him when Duan Qianchui confronted them.

Ji Yuan rescued Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang from the Cinnabar Sea and brought them back to the Cloud-Rain Sect, where they recounted their seventy-eight years trapped inside the Secret Realm. Meanwhile, two Fifth-Order Great Demons escaped the collapsed realm, and Mo Zhenzi reported their flight to a Spirit Transformation ancestor.

• Duan Qianchui backed down from confronting Ji Yuan, and Zhao Fuguang revealed that the Secret of Spirit Transformation remained inside the fallen Secret Realm.
• After the Nascent Soul Peak cultivators entered the Secret Realm fragments, Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang warned Ji Yuan about two Fifth-Order Great Demons, and he rushed them away toward the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• Ji Yuan reunited Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang with Zhou Cang, who told them how much the Abyssal Continent had changed during their absence.
• Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang explained that they had been trapped for seventy-eight years while hiding from the Mountain-Suppressing Black Tortoise and the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King.
• Huang Bingzhu and Zhao Fuguang agreed to let Ji Yuan choose first from the treasures they had brought out of the Secret Realm.
• Mo Zhenzi reported to a white-bearded ancestor that the two Fifth-Order Great Demons had escaped in opposite directions after clashing and suffering injuries.

Ji Yuan accepted two rare Immortal Resources from Zhao Fuguang and Huang Bingzhu, then forced the Heavenly Sword Sect to submit and destroyed its mountain-protecting formation as a warning. He flew to the Pill Cauldron Sect, where the Ghost Envoy sensed something puzzling.

• Zhao Fuguang and Huang Bingzhu offered Ji Yuan eight treasures to repay him for saving their lives, and he accepted the Profound Nether Soil and Divine Spirit Sand he needed to upgrade his [Spirit Field].
• Zhao Fuguang and Huang Bingzhu recounted how they stole the two Immortal Resources from the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King's lair during a battle between two Fifth-Tier demon kings.
• A green-robed old man entered the Heavenly Origin Tree and vanished into its trunk, causing the tree to stop shaking and draw in its spiritual energy.
• Ji Yuan confronted Jian Wuchen and Jian Wuya, demanded the Heavenly Sword Sect submit, and accepted their apology gifts.
• Ji Yuan destroyed the Heavenly Sword Sect's mountain-protecting formation with a precise sword strike and warned its cultivators to behave.
• Ji Yuan arrived at the Pill Cauldron Sect, where the Ghost Envoy voiced puzzlement.

Ji Yuan learned that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King was possessing the Pill Cauldron Sect’s Heavenly Origin Tree to gain a stronger foundation, and decided to capture it for the Immortal Prison. He returned to the sect claiming he could cure the tree, preparing to use his Meteor Cannon against the helpless great demon.

• The Ghost Envoy revealed that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King was fused with the Heavenly Origin Tree and too injured to attack Ji Yuan.
• Dan Xuzi apologized for the Pill Cauldron Sect’s past actions, gave Ji Yuan compensation, and offered to move the sect into the Immortal Prison; Ji Yuan accepted the gift but refused the offer.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi described the Heavenly Origin Tree’s decline, and Ji Yuan advised them to seek spirit-plant experts on the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• The Ghost Envoy explained that the Banyan King was using the Heavenly Origin Tree to improve its foundation and could not resist without ruining its possession.
• The Ghost Envoy proposed that Ji Yuan capture the immobile Banyan King as the Immortal Prison’s guardian spirit plant and offered to restore its Fifth-Tier strength.
• Ji Yuan returned to the Pill Cauldron Sect and told Dan Xuzi he had come back to cure the Heavenly Origin Tree.

Ji Yuan exposed the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King hiding inside the Heavenly Origin Tree and tricked Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi into powering the Meteor Cannon. After Ji Yuan blasted the tree’s core, the wounded Fifth-Order Great Demon formed a treant and threatened him.

• Ji Yuan examined the withered Heavenly Origin Tree and learned from the Ghost Envoy that the Ten-Thousand-Year Ancient Banyan King was consuming its essence from within.
• Ji Yuan claimed he could cure the tree, led Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi to reinforce a hill, and set up the Meteor Cannon facing the tree’s core.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi fed 4,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones into the cannon before the Ancient Banyan King revealed itself and warned that firing would destroy the tree.
• Ji Yuan revealed the demon’s hiding place, stopped Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi from attacking him, and sealed the Pill Cauldron Sect inside a Fourth-Tier Strange Gate Eight Trigrams Formation.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi chose to trust Ji Yuan, who fired the Meteor Cannon and pierced the Heavenly Origin Tree’s core.
• The wounded Ancient Banyan King gathered the tree’s branches into a towering treant and threatened Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan fought the Ancient Banyan King's Nascent Soul Peak avatar, enduring its attacks and turning the battle around with his sword art and Demon Venerable Black Baleful transformation. After defeating the treant, Ji Yuan sentenced the Ancient Banyan King to eternal confinement in the Immortal Prison.

• The Ancient Banyan King wounded Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi, but Ji Yuan's Strange Gate Eight Trigrams Formation kept them safe.
• Ji Yuan attacked with his fused cyan fire and Sword Nine, severing the Ancient Banyan King's arm with Sword Three: Starpoint before the treant regenerated and overwhelmed him.
• Ji Yuan activated the [Pigsty] Spirit Effect, transformed into Demon Venerable Black Baleful, and drove the Ancient Banyan King back with powerful punches.
• The Ancient Banyan King trapped himself inside a wooden cage and waited out Ji Yuan's hundred-breath transformation, then impaled him with a wooden sword.
• Ji Yuan used Sword Nine's fourth form, Body in Fire, to heal his wound and restore his strength, then transformed again and destroyed the Ancient Banyan King's avatar.
• Ji Yuan condemned the Ancient Banyan King for his crimes and sent his ruined body into the Immortal Prison.

Ji Yuan killed the Ancient Banyan King, imprisoned its remaining Divine Soul essence, and learned how the ancient spirit tree had become a Fifth-Tier great demon. After hearing that a Nascent Soul War was about to begin at the Three Southern Passes, Ji Yuan headed toward the Desolate Ancient Continent as Taiyi Immortal Sect leaders prepared for the conflict.

• Ji Yuan told Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi that he had killed the Ancient Banyan King and ordered them to keep the battle secret, warning that he would kill them if the news leaked.
• Ji Yuan brought the Ancient Banyan King's weakened Divine Soul essence into the Immortal Prison, where the Ghost Envoy used Zixiao Divine Thunder to force it to submit.
• The Ancient Banyan King recounted how a Spirit Transformation patriarch had raised it, how it fought the Mountain-Suppressing Black Tortoise over an Innate Spirit Spring, and why it had tried to seize the Heavenly Origin Tree.
• Ji Yuan left the Ancient Banyan King imprisoned and learned from Liu Yuan that the Nascent Soul War at the Three Southern Passes was imminent, so he traveled toward the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Ye Wuzhen told Perfected Taiyi, True Person Tai'er, and Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal that the two sides had agreed to a Nascent Soul War, and Perfected Taiyi sent Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal to reinforce the Three Southern Passes.
• Ye Wuzhen warned the Taiyi Immortal Sect leaders that Chi Kui, a Nascent Soul Late Stage fighter whose strength matched the Nascent Soul Peak, would fight again.

Taiyi Immortal Sect asked Ji Yuan to fight Chi Kui at the Three Southern Passes, and offered him powerful resources to prepare for the dangerous battle. Ji Yuan weighed the offer and asked which body-cultivator technique they would provide; Perfected Taiyi revealed it was the Stone's-Throw Spear.

• Perfected Taiyi and the elders discussed possible fighters against Chi Kui, but Ye Wuzhen judged Duan Qianchui, Wei Xuantong, and Niu Ben unable to defeat him.
• The elders proposed Ji Yuan as their best remaining candidate, and Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal revealed that Ji Yuan was already in Taiyi City.
• Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal brought Ji Yuan to meet Perfected Taiyi, True Person Tai'er, and Ye Wuzhen, who asked him to face Chi Kui at the Three Southern Passes.
• Ji Yuan agreed in principle but feigned doubt about matching Chi Kui, while Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal warned that Chi Kui had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage and surpassed ordinary Nascent Soul Peak cultivators.
• Perfected Taiyi and True Person Tai'er offered Ji Yuan a top body-cultivator fighting technique, a suitable Dharma Treasure, and a Divine Insight Fruit in exchange for his help.
• Ji Yuan asked which fighting technique the sect would give him, and Perfected Taiyi named the Stone's-Throw Spear.

Ji Yuan accepted the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s combat technique, treasures, and help with his spirit beasts in exchange for fighting Chi Kui at the Three Southern Passes within six months. He upgraded the [Ant Nest] to Level Four and began collecting its newly produced Blazing Flame, while wondering what the next level would bring.

• Ji Yuan accepted the Stone's-Throw Spear, matching armor and spear, and Divine Insight Fruit, and agreed to fight at the Three Southern Passes within six months.
• True Person Tai'er gave Ji Yuan a Sacred Beast Fruit, and Perfected Taiyi arranged for the Hanging Gourd Loose Immortal to guard Dream Butterfly and the Golden-Plume Thunder Roc through their Transformation Lightning Tribulations.
• Ji Yuan fed the Sacred Beast Fruit to the Ant Queen, who broke through to the Fourth Tier while he studied the Stone's-Throw Spear in the Dao Comprehension Chamber.
• Ji Yuan used 30,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones and two Fourth-Order Monster Cores to upgrade the [Ant Nest] to Level Four, unlocking its three Spirit Effects and triggering an increase in the ants’ cultivation.
• Ji Yuan collected the nest’s Blazing Flame with the Purple-Gold Gourd and instructed Tu Yue to keep gathering it, then considered what the [Ant Nest] would become at Level Five.