Recaps

Ling Yun and his companions entered Slaughter City and defeated a gang despite the rules sealing Soul Skills, using brute strength and Ning Rongrong’s Thunderclap Bombs. The chapter ended with Tang San arriving, expecting Ling Yun to be helpless, and finding him in control of the captured bandits.

• A black-veiled Guide explained that Slaughter City sealed Soul Rings and Soul Skills, but Ling Yun asked where to find the richest gangs.
• Dai Mubai and Tai Long attacked the gang that threatened the group, while Ning Rongrong used a Thunderclap Bomb to blast many of the bandits.
• Ling Yun used water control to slice through a bald brute’s weapon and arm, then forced him to kneel as the remaining bandits surrendered.
• Ning Rongrong collected the defeated bandits’ valuables while the group waited near the entrance to the inner city.
• Tang San entered Slaughter City expecting to find Ling Yun vulnerable, but instead saw Ling Yun’s group holding the captured gang and looting them.
• Ling Yun mocked Tang San and offered the bandits as sturdy targets for the group to practice on.

Ling Yun and his companions beat Tang San at the entrance to Slaughter City and seized his hidden weapons as payment for an invented toll. Ling Yun then made the black-gauzed Guide recruit newcomers to their new checkpoint business, while Tang San lay humiliated and stripped of his confidence.

• Tang San tried to enter Slaughter City, but Ling Yun confronted him and Dai Mubai and Tai Long demanded a thousand Gold Soul Coins as a toll.
• Tang San attacked Dai Mubai with Bone-Piercing Nails, but Dai Mubai knocked them aside and punched him before Xiao Wu and Ma Hongjun joined the beating.
• Ning Rongrong confiscated Tang San's belt and hidden weapons, dismissing them as cheap scrap iron and declaring that he still owed most of the toll.
• Ling Yun ordered the black-gauzed Guide to bring newcomers to the Ling Clan Security Checkpoint and assigned Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai to collect payment and search them.
• Tang San lay beaten and watched Ling Yun's group plan their checkpoint business, his confidence and ambitions shattered.

Ling Yun’s group turned Slaughter City’s arena into a betting den and cooked pickled-cabbage stew, enraging the King of Slaughter. Tang San searched the arena’s rubbish for iron and ended the night drenched in scalding pot-washing water.

• Ning Rongrong took bets on Dai Mubai’s arena match while Ling Yun lounged nearby, and Dai Mubai killed all nine opponents in seconds.
• Ning Rongrong collected the winnings from the gamblers after Dai Mubai won his third consecutive match.
• The King of Slaughter learned that the newcomers had robbed the gatekeeper, run an illegal betting operation, and cooked stew in the arena’s back room.
• Tang San searched the rubbish heap for discarded iron nails, hoping to rebuild his hidden weapons.
• Ma Hongjun dumped scalding stew-washing water over Tang San, mistook him for a stray dog, and left him clutching a rusty nail in the mud.

The King of Slaughter offered Ling Yun and Blue Tyrant free passage out of Slaughter City, but Ling Yun demanded a trove of treasures as relocation compensation. As Ling Yun’s group departed in comfort, Tang San emerged from the sewers with a crude hidden weapon and collapsed in despair at the sight.

• The King of Slaughter offered Ling Yun six Asura God Tokens, Yellow Springs Blood Dew, and a cleared Hell Road in exchange for Blue Tyrant leaving Slaughter City that night.
• Ling Yun refused to leave for free and demanded the city’s Deep Sea Black Iron Mother Ore, Supreme Yin-Cold Spirit Herbs, and the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core.
• The King of Slaughter agreed to deliver the treasures at midnight and fled, while Ning Rongrong celebrated the haul.
• Tang San finished grinding a Deep Sea Sinking Silver Mechanism Needle Tip in a sewer and vowed to endure the arena until he could take revenge on Ling Yun.
• Tang San saw Ling Yun’s group being escorted toward Hell Road in a palanquin alongside the promised treasures, then spat blood and fell back into the sewer.

Ling Yun and the Blue Tyrant group crossed Hell Road, killed its monstrous guardians, and claimed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core. They emerged from Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter's Domain and their spoils, while Ling Yun complained that Hell Road had no hot flatbread.

• The black-armored knights cleaned the entrance to Hell Road, gave Tai Long two chests of black iron stones, and warned the group not to look back.
• Ning Rongrong injured the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with explosives, Dai Mubai crushed one head, and Ling Yun sliced off another before the beast fell into the blood pit.
• Ma Hongjun countered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s flames while Ling Yun struck it with a blood-water shark, allowing Ma Hongjun to pull out and swallow its inner core.
• Ling Yun and the others absorbed the Blood Qi at Hell Road’s exit and acquired Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Ling Yun and the five others emerged outside Slaughter City carrying their spoils, and Ling Yun complained that Hell Road had no hot flatbread.

Ling Yun and the Blue Tyrant members emerged safely from Hell Road with the Divine Slaughter’s Domain and a haul of treasure, then decided to head for Vast Sea City and become pirates. She Long reported their plans to Qian Renxue, while Tang San crawled out of a sewer and swore to win the Hell Slaughter Arena’s hundred matches and obtain the domain so he could take revenge on Ling Yun.

• She Long watched Ling Yun and the others emerge from Hell Road unharmed, carrying treasure and displaying the Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Ning Rongrong divided up the loot, and Ling Yun used the domain to chill a watermelon for the group.
• Ling Yun proposed traveling to Vast Sea City to become pirate chiefs and plunder pirates and Sea God Island, and the others eagerly agreed.
• She Long sent Qian Renxue a secret report about the group’s survival, treasure, and plans to go to sea.
• Tang San crawled out of a sewer in Slaughter City, vowed to win one hundred matches and gain the Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and swore revenge on Ling Yun.

Qian Renxue learned that Ling Yun’s group planned to sail to Sea God Island and ordered Spirit Hall’s forces in Vast Sea City to arrange their destruction. When the group reached the port, Ling Yun seized the Sea Wolf Gang’s Black Dragon and set sail for the island.

• Qian Renxue received a report that Ling Yun’s group had gained Divine Slaughter’s Domain and planned to become pirates and raid Sea God Island, so she ordered Spirit Hall’s archbishop to alert local pirates and sink them.
• Twenty days later in Vast Sea City, Brass Tooth tried to extort Ling Yun’s group for passage, but Ning Rongrong identified his scheme and pointed out the Sea Wolf Gang’s Black Dragon as a better ship.
• Ling Yun used Divine Slaughter’s Domain to terrify Brass Tooth and his gang, then led his companions aboard the Black Dragon and drove off its crew.
• Ling Yun forced the Sea Wolf Gang’s deputy chief to surrender the ship, while Ning Rongrong demanded additional compensation for the gang’s threats.
• Ling Yun’s group made the captured pirates work the ship as the Black Dragon departed Vast Sea City for Sea God Island.

Ling Yun and his companions sailed the Black Dragon toward Sea God Island when the Sea Devil Pirate Group attacked. Ling Yun destroyed their fleet with his control over water, and the chapter ended with him ordering the ship onward into the storm-tossed deep sea.

• The bearded deputy gang leader abandoned his plan to sabotage the Black Dragon after seeing Ling Yun and his companions’ power.
• Ning Rongrong counted the ship’s supplies and cargo as Ling Yun lounged on deck and Xiao Wu fed him grilled prawns.
• Ma Hongjun spotted six Sea Devil pirate ships closing in, and their one-eyed Sea Soul King leader demanded their cargo and threatened the women aboard.
• Ling Yun summoned enormous waterspouts that wrecked two ships and overturned the other four, leaving the pirates helpless in the sea.
• Dai Mubai, Tai Long, Ma Hongjun, and Ning Rongrong salvaged the pirates’ valuables, while the one-eyed leader and surviving pirates begged for mercy.
• Ling Yun ordered the Black Dragon to raise every sail and continue toward Sea God Island.

Ling Yun and his companions crossed the dangerous deep sea by forcing Demon Soul Great White Sharks to tow the Black Dragon and driving off the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King with spiced liquor. They reached Sea God Island by crashing onto its beach, where Ling Yun ordered his companions to unload their cargo and prepare to rob the sacred site.

• Ma Hongjun blasted Demon Soul Great White Sharks with explosives, and Ling Yun bound their leader with water ropes and ordered the sharks harnessed to the Black Dragon.
• Ling Yun shot garlic-and-ghost-pepper liquor into the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's blowhole, making it sneeze and flee into the depths.
• The Black Dragon rode the whale's tsunami past the deep-sea dangers and sped toward Sea God Island.
• The Black Dragon crashed into Sea God Island's beach, startling Sea Horse Douluo and the gathered Sea Soul Masters.
• Ling Yun stepped onto the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar's marble steps, admired its jade, and told Dai Mubai and Fatty to unload the chests as they prepared to rob the sacred site.

Ling Yun and his companions arrived at Sea God Island and treated the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar grounds like a place to unload supplies and cook, infuriating Sea Horse Douluo. Their trials left Ning Rongrong marked as a potential High Priest successor, while Ling Yun’s power damaged the Sacred Pillar; the chapter ended with Bo Saixi discovering the chaos.

• Ling Yun argued that he had saved the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, while his companions fed them sausages, unloaded chests, and prepared food at the Sacred Pillar.
• Sea Horse Douluo demanded that the group undergo the island’s sacred trials, and Dai Mubai’s killing aura drove back the waves he had raised.
• Ma Hongjun received Black Level Six Trials and complained that the black marks looked unlucky.
• Ning Rongrong received the Top-Tier Seven Trials, then demanded payment for completing them.
• Ling Yun’s Divine Sense and powers caused the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar to short-circuit, crack, and lose its divine light.
• Bo Saixi sensed the disturbance and arrived to find Sea Horse Douluo collapsed, the pillar damaged, and Ling Yun’s group cooking beside it.

Ling Yun and Blue Tyrant wrecked Sea God Island’s defenses, bypassed the Sea God’s staircase with a water-powered ride, and demanded the Sea God’s golden trident as a toll. Tang San finally washed ashore, only to find the divine opportunity he sought already turned into a chaotic mess, and collapsed in despair.

• Bo Saixi arrived at the damaged Sea Horse Sacred Pillar and confronted Ling Yun’s group, while Ning Rongrong demanded fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins in compensation.
• Bo Saixi hurled the group to the base of Sea God Mountain and challenged them to climb the thousand-and-one steps under the Sea God’s pressure.
• Ling Yun formed a powerful upward-flowing water column and carried the group in a wooden tub past the pressure barrier to the Sea God Hall.
• The Sea God Phantom appeared, but Ning Rongrong and Ling Yun tried to extort his golden trident, causing the furious phantom to vanish and Bo Saixi to faint.
• Tang San washed ashore after more than half a month at sea, saw the wrecked pillar and the group ransacking Sea God Island, and collapsed after realizing his plans had been ruined.

Ling Yun and the Blue Tyrant group tore apart Sea God Hall to pull out the Golden Trident, then repurposed it as a weight for pickle vats. Tang San tried to claim the Sea God’s trials at the ruined Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, but received a menial bricklaying assignment and fainted.

• Tai Long, Dai Mubai, and the others used a makeshift pulley and twenty Demon Soul Great White Sharks to yank the Golden Trident from Sea God Hall.
• Ning Rongrong filed the trident’s gold coating and discovered it was mostly black iron.
• Ling Yun ordered Tai Long to use the trident as a weight in the Black Dragon’s pickle vats.
• Tang San reached the ruined Sea Horse Sacred Pillar and tried to begin the Sea God Nine Trials with his blood.
• The damaged pillar granted Tang San a White-Level First Trial: repair Sea God Hall by carrying bricks and mixing mortar for three months.
• Tang San saw the glowing “Bricklaying Laborer” seal on his forehead and fainted.

Ling Yun and the others returned from Sea God Island with the Sea God Trident, which they used as a weight for pickled cabbage, while Tang San was left laboring in the island’s quarry. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue learned that the group had returned and realized their presence threatened her nearly completed takeover.

• Ling Yun released the Demon Soul Great White Sharks, who fled after giving the crew deep-sea pearls.
• Dai Mubai and the others used the Sea God Trident to press pickled cabbage and cooked it into soup with seafood and noodles.
• Tang San hauled stones in Sea God Island’s quarry while a steward whipped and berated him.
• She Long brought Qian Renxue an urgent dispatch reporting the crew’s return and their destruction of parts of Sea God Island and Sea God Hall.
• Qian Renxue heard that the crew had taken the Sea God Trident and used it as a pickle-crock weight, then recalled her encounter with Ling Yun.

Ling Yun and his companions entered Heaven Dou City with the Sea God Trident tied to their donkey cart and paused for mutton before answering Prince Xue Xing’s plea for help. They stormed the imperial sleeping palace as Qian Renxue prepared to seize the throne, and Ling Yun confronted her over the unpaid 80,000 Gold Soul Coins.

• Tai Long dragged the Sea God Trident behind a donkey cart into Heaven Dou City while Dai Mubai’s killing aura forced the imperial guards to let them pass.
• Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo found Ling Yun and his companions eating at Old Huang’s mutton shop, where Xue Xing begged Ling Yun to save the dying emperor from Qian Renxue.
• Ling Yun agreed to go to the palace because Qian Renxue owed the Blue Tyrant Team 80,000 Gold Soul Coins in scholarships and training-ground funds.
• Qian Renxue, in golden armor, told the dying Xue Ye that she had sealed the inner sleeping palace and would take control of the empire that night.
• Ling Yun and his companions smashed through the sleeping palace doors and confronted Qian Renxue, demanding payment and threatening to make her pay if she killed Xue Ye to evade the debt.

Ling Yun disrupted Qian Renxue’s attempt to seize the Heaven Dou Empire by attacking her Angel Domain with scalding mutton-fat broth and helping Xue Ye recover from his poison. Xue Ye gave Ling Yun access to the imperial treasury and ordered the Spirit Hall forces beaten.

• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel form and used Angel Domain to suppress Ling Yun and his companions.
• Ling Yun pierced Qian Renxue’s golden barrier with boiling mutton-fat broth, scalding her wings and ruining her divine display.
• Ci Xue attacked with poisonous water, but Dugu Bo’s poison and Ling Yun’s Earth-Core Yin Lotus fragments left him collapsed and unconscious.
• The fumes woke Xue Ye, who accused Qian Renxue of betraying him.
• Ling Yun fed Xue Ye a Big Sausage Oscar had made, which dissolved much of the yin poison in the emperor’s body.
• Xue Ye handed Ling Yun a golden treasury plaque and ordered his men to beat the Spirit Hall forces.

Ling Yun and his allies drove Qian Renxue and She Long from the imperial bedchamber, then looted Heaven Dou’s royal treasury. Far away, Tang San was demoted from bricklayer to deep-sea pearl-diving slave after news of Ling Yun’s damage to Sea God Hall reached the island.

• Qian Renxue and She Long fled after Ling Yun’s group wounded them, tore feathers from her wings, and seized Spirit Hall’s Elder Token.
• Ning Rongrong pocketed the spoils while Xue Ye asked Ling Yun whether he could redeem the Golden Dragon Military Token; Ling Yun took it and headed for the treasury.
• Ling Yun’s crew smashed open the royal treasury and loaded its treasures onto carts, even hauling away the gilded guardian lions.
• Tang San collapsed after three days of quarry labor, still hoping to earn a divine artifact by completing his bricklaying task.
• A Sea Soul Master deacon told Tang San that Ling Yun had damaged Sea God Hall and announced that Tang San’s exam was changed to collecting ten thousand jin of pearls in the Ten Thousand Demons Trench.
• Tang San’s mark changed to “Deep-Sea Pearl Diving Slave,” and he passed out in despair.

Ling Yun and the Blue Tyrant bandits plundered Heaven Dou’s treasury and desecrated sacred relics, prompting Qian Daoliu to prepare a response after discovering Qian Renxue’s injuries. Meanwhile, Tang San endured brutal labor at the bottom of the Ten Thousand Demons Trench.

• The chief eunuch told Xue Ye that the bandits had emptied the treasury and taken the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Xue Ye fainted in shock.
• At Old Huang’s restaurant, Ling Yun stripped the Sea God’s remnant consciousness from the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and gave the water-infused relic to Ma Hongjun as an ice pack.
• Ning Rongrong made a feather duster from feathers plucked from Qian Renxue, while the stolen bronze lions were dumped outside the restaurant.
• She Long carried the injured Qian Renxue to Qian Daoliu, who learned that the Blue Tyrant bandits had plucked her feathers and declared he would hunt them down.
• Tang San searched for black pearls in the Ten Thousand Demons Trench until a Swordfish Soul Beast broke his breathing reed, leaving him choking underwater.

Ling Yun and his companions stripped Heaven Dou’s treasury and humiliated Qian Renxue, while Qian Daoliu prepared to retaliate. Far away, Tang San struggled as a slave diver in the Ten Thousand Demons Trench and began drowning after a sea beast broke his breathing tube.

• The chief eunuch told Xue Ye that Blue Tyrant’s group had emptied the treasury and stolen the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Xue Ye fainted in anger.
• Ling Yun destroyed the Sea God’s remnant consciousness inside the Shroud and gave the cold artifact to Ma Hongjun as an ice pack.
• Qian Renxue reported to Qian Daoliu that Ling Yun’s group had plucked her feathers and misused sacred relics, prompting Qian Daoliu to summon Jiang Mo and Qian Jun for revenge.
• Tang San labored to collect black pearls in the Ten Thousand Demons Trench while enduring the harsh conditions of his forced diving work.
• A Swordfish sea beast struck Tang San and snapped his breathing tube, leaving him choking on seawater as he clutched the clams he had gathered.

Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun mocked Qian Daoliu by selling Qian Renxue’s plucked feathers as dusters, while Ling Yun blocked Qian Daoliu’s attack and threatened to expose the Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Tang San was hauled from the sea and treated as a punished pearl-diving slave on Sea God Island.

• Ning Rongrong advertised feather dusters made from Qian Renxue’s plucked feathers as Ma Hongjun swept with another one.
• Qian Daoliu attacked the mutton restaurant with a golden sword, but Ling Yun redirected the strike into a drainage ditch using the Sea God Trident.
• Ling Yun invoked his Heaven Dou city-management appointment and threatened to spread embarrassing stories about the Spirit Hall, leaving Qian Daoliu, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo unable to retaliate.
• An overseer hauled Tang San from the Ten Thousand Demons Trench, fined him for breaking a shared breathing reed, and ordered him hung upside down from the boat’s mast.

Qian Daoliu paid Ling Yun and Ning Rongrong for the angel-feather dusters with valuable items, then fled after Ning Rongrong handed him an official invoice. Meanwhile, Tang San’s escape attempt on Sea God Island failed when his nail hit a seagull, whose droppings landed in his mouth and brought the overseer’s punishment.

• Qian Daoliu accepted defeat and agreed to buy the feather dusters at Ning Rongrong’s price of one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins each.
• Jiang Mo and Qian Jun surrendered their storage belts, and Jiang Mo added a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone to pay for the dusters.
• Ning Rongrong gave Qian Daoliu a stamped purchase invoice, and he fled toward Spirit City after being humiliated.
• Tang San used Mysterious Jade Hand to launch a sharpened iron nail at the sleeping yellow-robed overseer.
• The nail struck a seagull, and its droppings landed in Tang San’s mouth as the bird’s cry woke the overseer.
• The overseer beat Tang San with a sandal and increased his pearl-diving quota by five jin.

Dai Mubai returned to the Star Luo Imperial Palace to renounce his claim to the throne and demand two million Gold Soul Coins, while Ling Yun and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun. Meanwhile, Tang San encountered a hundred-thousand-year sea cucumber monster in the Ten Thousand Demons Trench and was dragged toward its lair.

• Tai Long smashed down the Star Luo Imperial Palace gate as Dai Mubai, Ling Yun, and Ning Rongrong entered the great hall.
• Ning Rongrong demanded two million Gold Soul Coins from the Star Luo royal family as Dai Mubai's severance payment for giving up his inheritance claim.
• Dai Weisi attacked Dai Mubai, but Dai Mubai froze him with Divine Slaughter's Domain and slapped him unconscious.
• Zhu Zhuyun tried to ambush Zhu Zhuqing, but Zhu Zhuqing repelled her with a golden feather duster made from a Six-Winged Angel feather.
• Ling Yun demanded payment from the old Star Luo emperor and threatened to hang Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun at the palace gates.
• Tang San mistook an approaching sea cucumber monster for a source of fortune, but it covered him in mucus and dragged him toward its cave.

Xue Qinghe delivered Emperor Xue Ye’s decree forbidding Heaven Dou’s official forces from pursuing Xiao Wu, while Ling Yun questioned how much protection it truly offered. Ling Yun then probed Xue Qinghe about whether he had met Spirit Hall’s Great Enshrined, leaving the others suspicious of an unspoken connection.

• Xue Qinghe announced that Heaven Dou Empire officials and military forces were forbidden from hunting Xiao Wu, with violators charged with treason.
• Ling Yun pointed out that the decree could not restrain private Soul Masters, bounty hunters, underground groups, or sects, and Xue Qinghe admitted the emperor could not control them all.
• Xue Qinghe promised that the imperial army would intervene if anyone openly organized an attack on Xiao Wu within the empire, and Xiao Wu thanked him.
• Ling Yun asked whether Xue Qinghe had seen Spirit Hall’s Great Enshrined, and Xue Qinghe denied having the status or opportunity to meet him.
• Ling Yun accepted Xue Qinghe’s denial with a joking smile, while Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Wu sensed that Ling Yun was probing for a hidden truth.

Ling Yun rejected Xue Qinghe’s offer to join the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, choosing to remain unaffiliated while he focused on mastering his Water-Cooling Sword. Xue Qinghe then revealed a string of village disappearances, and Ling Yun concluded the attacks were not the work of one person.

• Xue Qinghe asked Ling Yun whether he minded that Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast, and Ling Yun said he judged her by how she treated people rather than by her species.
• Ling Yun hinted that he knew Xue Qinghe was living under a false identity, and Xue Qinghe replied that a person’s true goals could not be disguised.
• Xue Qinghe offered Ling Yun wealth, status, and imperial resources to recruit him, but Ling Yun declined for now, saying he needed time to master his sword and would choose neither side.
• Xue Qinghe gave Ling Yun a secret report describing three villages and towns where 376 people, including 21 registered Soul Masters, had disappeared, leaving bloodstains but no bodies or bones.
• Ling Yun noted that the attacks had become more frequent and concluded that a single person could not have carried them out.

Ling Yun explained why rushing to the southwestern border could alert the organized Evil Soul Masters and allow their leaders to escape, then said he would wait until the evidence was sufficient to strike. As Xue Qinghe departed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ling Yun hinted that he knew Xue Qinghe’s connection to the Great Enshrined and asked him to pass on his thanks for sparing Ling Yun’s life.

• Ling Yun concluded that the village disappearances and killings were the work of a carefully organized group of Evil Soul Masters, though Xue Qinghe admitted they did not know the group’s name.
• Xue Qinghe invited Ling Yun to join the investigation, but Ling Yun refused to charge to the southwestern border, warning that doing so could scare off the group’s leaders.
• Ling Yun said the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Old Poison should gather evidence before he took up his sword against the Evil Soul Masters.
• Xue Qinghe praised Ling Yun and later prepared to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Ling Yun joked that Xue Qinghe might one day be glad he had not recruited him.
• Ling Yun asked Xue Qinghe to thank the Great Enshrined for sparing his life at the Papal Hall during the Grand Finals, and Xue Qinghe denied understanding the remark before departing.

After Xue Qinghe left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Qian Renxue confirmed that Ling Yun knew her identity and sent Qian Daoliu warnings about him and a suspected Evil Soul Master organization. Ling Yun returned to training under Chen Xin while secretly dwelling on the disappearance of 376 people from the southwestern border and the danger gathering there.

• Qian Renxue shed her Xue Qinghe disguise in the carriage and concluded that Ling Yun knew her true identity but had not yet acted against her.
• Qian Renxue sent Qian Daoliu a secret letter confirming Ling Yun's knowledge and urging him to investigate the disappearances in Heaven Dou's southwest.
• At the sect gate, Ling Yun dismissed Gu Rong's questions about his conversation with Xue Qinghe, then Chen Xin ordered him to train at the back-mountain cliff.
• Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong teased Ling Yun as he hurried after Chen Xin to avoid extra cliff-jumping practice.
• As he ran, Ling Yun recalled the 376 missing people and watched storm clouds gather, resolving to sharpen his sword before the danger spread across the continent.