Recaps

Shen Leyan, Lu Yuanyi, and Zheng Ziheng traveled deeper into the Southwestern Jungle to find jadeblood snakegrass for Zheng Ziheng’s younger brother. After Shen Leyan tested several wild mushrooms, their strange effects left him in increasingly bizarre states.

• A Giant Eagle attacked the sword-flying group, but Shen Leyan disrupted its balance with a spell, and they later cooked and ate it.
• Zheng Ziheng located the jadeblood snakegrass search area on the map, and the group continued on foot as rain made Sword Flight difficult.
• Shen Leyan asked whether the colorful wild mushrooms were edible, then picked a gray one and ate a bite.
• The gray mushroom made Shen Leyan recite a poem and multiplication tables until Lu Yuanyi sent Spiritual Power into his back.
• Shen Leyan sampled a red mushroom and collapsed foaming at the mouth, then ate a white mushroom and began spinning and dancing.
• After eating a green mushroom, Shen Leyan’s hair glowed green and he declared himself Shen 'Heaven-Defying Dragon' Leyan.

Shen Leyan stayed behind while Lu Yuanyi and Zheng Ziheng went deeper into the Southwestern Jungle to search for Jadeblood Snakegrass. When a battle erupted, he persuaded the Jiangxue Sword to take him toward Lu Yuanyi, but it dragged him through the jungle at high speed.

• Shen Leyan gathered wild mushrooms and put them in Zheng Ziheng's Storage Ring Space.
• As they neared the Jadeblood Snakegrass location, Shen Leyan hid from large insects behind Zheng Ziheng.
• Lu Yuanyi left Shen Leyan in a clearing with a Heavenheart Crystal and the Jiangxue Sword for protection, then went deeper into the jungle with Zheng Ziheng.
• A crash shook the jungle and drove venomous insects and snakes toward Shen Leyan's clearing.
• Shen Leyan asked the Jiangxue Sword to take him toward Lu Yuanyi, and the sword suddenly pulled him forward through the jungle.

Shen Leyan tried to stop a wounded snake demon from eating the immature jadeblood snakegrass the Cloud Radiance Sect needed to save a mortal. The snake explained why it refused to give up the herb, and Shen Leyan promised the sect would protect the next stalk so it could eat it.

• The Jiangxue Sword carried Shen Leyan to a safe distance while Senior Brother Zheng and the other cultivators pursued the giant snake demon.
• Shen Leyan spotted the jadeblood snakegrass growing on the snake's head and realized the snake was about to swallow it.
• Shen Leyan ran back and tried to persuade the snake to give up the herb, but Zheng Ziheng explained that it had repeatedly been beaten by cultivators who took each previous stalk.
• Shen Leyan told the snake the herb was needed to save a mortal and promised Cloud Radiance Sect would guard the next stalk so the snake could eat it.

Shen Leyan and Zheng Ziheng made a Heavenly Oath with a wounded snake in exchange for Jadeblood Snakegrass, then Shen Leyan learned that Chen Jing had not returned from his mission. Qingli revealed Chen Jing had gone to Glory Ancestors Village, giving Shen Leyan a possible destination as he traveled through the southwestern region.

• Zheng Ziheng swore a Heavenly Oath, and the snake gave him the Jadeblood Snakegrass while asking them to wait another day for it to mature.
• Shen Leyan and Zheng Ziheng treated the snake's wounds, and Shen Leyan rested with it by the fire after the rain stopped.
• Shen Leyan asked Zheng Ziheng to send Qingli an Image Transmission, and Qingli replied that Chen Jing and his mission companions had not returned.
• Zheng Ziheng explained that Chen Jing's mission involved treating villagers affected by demons that ate fetuses.
• Shen Leyan asked Qingli to find Chen Jing's destination, and she reported that he had gone to Glory Ancestors Village in the southwestern region.

Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi traveled east through the Southwestern Jungle to find Glory Ancestors Village, where they learned that a curse was blamed for the villagers’ repeated miscarriages and infant deaths. The chapter left them with directions and a silver-funded account of the village’s troubles.

• Lu Yuanyi agreed to accompany Shen Leyan to Glory Ancestors Village after Senior Brother Zheng departed with the matured Jadeblood Snakegrass.
• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi lost their way through the Southwestern Jungle, but the demonic beasts fled before Lu Yuanyi could fight them.
• At the eastern edge of the jungle, Shen Leyan asked locals for Glory Ancestors Village, but they either did not recognize the name or spoke a dialect he could not understand.
• Shen Leyan offered one tael of silver for directions, and a previously hard-of-hearing old man stepped forward to draw him a map.
• The old man said a flood had destroyed the village’s ancestral graves three years earlier, after which its children began dying before age eight and the curse seemed to follow villagers who moved away.

Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi arrived in Glory Ancestors Village to investigate its history of having no surviving girls and found signs that something was wrong. After nightfall, they set out to inspect the village’s ancestral graves.

• Shen Leyan learned that Glory Ancestors Village’s families had once had only sons and wondered whether the girls had been deliberately killed.
• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi followed the old man’s map to the desolate village, where Lu Yuanyi sensed no demons nearby.
• Shen Leyan persuaded a wary woman to let them stay by pretending Lu Yuanyi had injured his ankle.
• Shen Leyan noticed the woman had children’s clothes to wash and that their supposedly empty room was clean, suggesting the village’s account of having no children was suspicious.
• After the village lights went out, Lu Yuanyi proposed that he and Shen Leyan investigate the ancestral graves.

Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi investigated Glory Ancestors Village at night, learning that cultivators had treated the villagers without success before checking the ancestral graves. They found no spirits among the graves and followed a forbidden path uphill, where they discovered several small towers.

• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi used an invisibility spell and searched the village for its ancestral graves.
• Shen Leyan spotted a man climbing into a courtyard, but he and Lu Yuanyi overheard the man meeting a widow named Cuihua instead.
• Lu Yuanyi told Shen Leyan that the couple had mentioned Cloud Radiance Sect disciples who had failed to treat the villagers and been driven away.
• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi climbed to the ancestral graves, where they found no souls or other signs of anything unusual.
• Shen Leyan noticed a forbidden path beyond the graves, and he and Lu Yuanyi climbed over the fence and found several small towers.

The chapter recounts generations of women in Glory Ancestors Village whose daughters were drowned or abandoned, ending with a mother-in-law’s daughter-in-law vowing to avenge her baby. In the present, Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi found the Abandoned Infant Towers, gathered the remains to bury them, and heard a child’s voice insist that the killers could not escape punishment.

• Thirty years earlier, a young mother watched the midwife carry off her newborn daughter, and the men in her family drowned the baby after having already drowned her first daughter.
• The woman later gave birth to a son, but when her daughter-in-law’s baby was also a girl, her husband ordered the newborn drowned and her son abandoned the body at the Abandoned Infant Tower.
• The woman secretly fed her imprisoned daughter-in-law, who vowed to get justice for her daughter.
• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi discovered the Abandoned Infant Towers, and Shen Leyan raged at the villagers who had killed the infants.
• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi collected the infants’ remains and flew to a scenic place by a stream to bury them.
• When Shen Leyan questioned why the local authorities had done nothing, a child’s voice called from above that the killers could not escape punishment.

Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi entered Glory Ancestors Village and confronted a Spider Demon who was draining the life of a woman tied to the village’s crimes. After learning that Chen Jing and the other cultivators had vanished while helping the villagers evacuate, Shen Leyan was left facing a new mystery.

• Shen Leyan met a Little Spider Demon in the woods, who explained that her mother had raised her and her siblings with demonic energy and was hunting in Glory Ancestors Village.
• Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi cut through the Spider Demon’s web surrounding the village and found the Spider Demon attacking the woman who had once sheltered them.
• The Spider Demon accused the woman of bearing responsibility for the deaths of children, and Shen Leyan intervened as she began draining the woman’s vital essence.
• Lu Yuanyi restrained the Spider Demon, and she told Shen Leyan that she had fought Chen Jing and other cultivators half a month earlier but let them go with minor injuries.
• The woman told Shen Leyan that Chen Jing’s group had later arranged to escort the villagers away, but the cultivators disappeared before the evacuation began.

Shen Leyan investigated the disappearance of Chen Jing and the other Cloud Radiance Sect disciples, uncovering that Glory Ancestors Village villagers were drugging and imprisoning cultivators. He reached their underground cellar and began reviving the captives, but their condition remained uncertain.

• The spider demon explained why she had adopted the village’s abandoned infants, and Shen Leyan and Lu Yuanyi let her go; Lu Yuanyi left with her while Shen Leyan stayed behind.
• A dying villager told Shen Leyan that Chen Jing and the other cultivators had stayed in a house near the mountain, and then she died.
• Shen Leyan disguised himself as a frightened traveler and tricked the villagers into revealing their greed by offering them silver and pretending to drink drugged chicken soup.
• The villagers carried Shen Leyan through a dry well into a cellar, but he expelled the knockout drugs, subdued one captor with Softening Powder, and forced him to help Shen Leyan escape and obtain the antidote.
• Shen Leyan entered the cellar, found Chen Jing and several other Cloud Radiance Sect disciples bound and unconscious, and gave Chen Jing the antidote before channeling spiritual energy into him.

Shen Leyan and Chen Jing survived the villagers’ attempt to burn them alive, but Chen Jing destroyed his spiritual root to protect the others and fell unconscious. After Lu Yuanyi stabilized him, Shen Leyan decided he wanted to cultivate to protect the people around him, and the group set out for the Cloud Radiance Sect with Chen Jing preserved in an ice coffin.

• Shen Leyan and Chen Jing were trapped in a liquor-fueled fire, and Chen Jing used a forbidden method that destroyed his spiritual root to raise a wall of Spiritual Power and shield the others.
• Lu Yuanyi arrived after getting lost, froze Chen Jing’s body to stop the black markings from spreading, and said the Cloud Radiance Sect already had Fire-Yang Divine Wood.
• Shen Leyan told Lu Yuanyi he wanted to cultivate so he could protect the people around him, while Lu Yuanyi explained that Chen Jing’s damaged spiritual root might not recover.
• Lu Yuanyi sealed Chen Jing in an ice coffin, and he and Shen Leyan left Glory Ancestors Village for the Northern Territory as the guilty villagers were taken into custody.
• Shen Leyan asked when the Cloud Radiance Sect would accept disciples and whether anyone could teach wind techniques; Lu Yuanyi said the sect would recruit in October and suggested elders might learn wind techniques for a disciple with a wind spiritual root.

Shen Leyan returned to the Cloud Radiance Sect with Chen Jing, whom Lu Yuanyi began treating in Cicada Song Pavilion, and reunited with Qingli over dinner. He learned that the sect’s disciple recruitment assembly was approaching and that visitors from across Great Xia, including the crown prince, had already arrived.

• Several Cloud Radiance Sect elders schemed to become the master of an Outer Sect disciple rumored to have a wind spiritual root.
• Lu Yuanyi brought Shen Leyan to Cicada Song Pavilion, gave him an entry token, and began repairing Chen Jing’s meridians with the fire-yang divine wood.
• Lu Yuanyi sent Shen Leyan to the Cloud Radiance Restaurant on the Jiangxue Sword while he stayed to treat Chen Jing.
• Shen Leyan reunited with Qingli on the way to the restaurant and told her about their journey and Chen Jing’s condition.
• At the restaurant, Qingli explained that visitors had come for the disciple recruitment assembly and that the crown prince and children of major families were expected.

Shen Leyan learned how Cloud Radiance Sect’s recruitment assembly worked and discovered that its elders were competing to mentor a wind-spiritual-root disciple. When he returned to his quarters, he found that the Crown Prince of Great Xia had taken them over, and he left with compensation after witnessing the prince’s cruelty.

• Shen Leyan sent Mala Xiangguo to Sect Master Lu and asked Qingli about the Cloud Radiance Sect’s recruitment assembly.
• Qingli explained the recruitment process and revealed that the elders were competing to teach the expected wind-spiritual-root disciple, Shen Leyan.
• Shen Leyan found his quarters filled with the Crown Prince’s belongings and used his Cicada Song Pavilion token to gain permission to enter.
• The Crown Prince offered Shen Leyan a hundred-tael banknote for his belongings and threatened an attendant whose fan brushed his ankle.
• Shen Leyan persuaded the Crown Prince to spare the attendant’s eyes because the Apprenticeship Ceremony was near, then accepted the banknote and left.

Shen Leyan escorted Apprenticeship Ceremony visitors to the Cicada Song Pavilion, sold them on free sect newspapers, and used his token to let them briefly approach the pavilion. After entering to visit Lu Yuanyi, he was asked to compensate him for a fish.

• Ji Lianyi ordered his attendants to investigate Shen Leyan, the disciple carrying the Cicada Song Pavilion Token.
• Shen Leyan furnished his new room, bought food for his visit, and told aspiring disciples they could learn sect gossip from newspapers sold at the Law Enforcement Hall.
• On the mountain, a chubby visitor tested the pavilion’s formation and was grabbed by a snowy hand and beaten with a club.
• Shen Leyan used his token to let several stubborn foundation-establishment visitors take a brief look inside the formation, then left them outside and entered the pavilion alone.
• Shen Leyan found Lu Yuanyi fishing beside the pond, and Lu Yuanyi told him to compensate him for his fish.

Shen Leyan visited the Cicada Song Pavilion, where Chen Jing recovered enough to wake after Lu Yuanyi rebuilt his meridians. After escaping the crowd of admirers outside, Shen Leyan went to buy stealth clothing so he could reach the Law Enforcement Hall and block the path to the pavilion.

• Shen Leyan learned that Lu Yuanyi had never caught the fish he had charged him for, then visited Chen Jing in the Hundred Herbs Pavilion as Lu Yuanyi continued treating him.
• After cultivating for several hours, Shen Leyan neared a breakthrough, and Chen Jing woke, complained that Shen had hidden his spiritual root, then fainted again from the pain.
• Shen Leyan noticed Lu Yuanyi secretly reading a scroll about mastering Wind Arts, but Lu Yuanyi sent him down the mountain on the Jiangxue Sword before he could investigate.
• A crowd of admirers surrounded the pavilion and cheered when Shen Leyan flew out, so the Jiangxue Sword rushed him past them and down the mountain.
• Shen Leyan ate Luosifen, then went to Luoxiang Hall disguised beneath a bamboo hat and bought stealth clothing to avoid the crowd while heading to the Law Enforcement Hall.

Shen Leyan got lost in the Cloud Radiance Sect mountains, broke through to the Middle Qi Refining Realm, and stumbled upon Peacock Gate assassins pursuing Great Xia's crown prince, Ji Lianyi. After the wounded prince escaped the assassins' domain, Shen Leyan approached him.

• Shen Leyan got lost while trying to reach the Law Enforcement Hall and meditated in the mountains.
• Shen Leyan broke through to the Middle Qi Refining Realm and received the Playing Dead Method from Xiao Du.
• Shen Leyan followed the smell of blood and discovered Peacock Gate assassins attacking Ji Lianyi.
• A Peacock Gate assassin mistook Shen Leyan for a fellow operative and revealed that the group planned to kill Great Xia's crown prince.
• Ji Lianyi escaped the domain badly wounded, and Shen Leyan stepped forward and addressed him as Your Highness.

Shen Leyan tried to get the wounded Ji Lianyi to safety after rescuing him from the Peacock Gate, but the assassins caught up and trapped them in a barrier. Disguised as a Peacock Gate recruit, Shen Leyan was ordered to kill Ji Lianyi and approached him with a dagger.

• Shen Leyan revealed himself to Ji Lianyi, helped him escape the barrier, and gave him a Nine-Turn Soul-Replenishing Pill.
• Ji Lianyi explained that a spy had lured him to the mountain with a false imperial summons, and Shen Leyan carried him toward the Cloud Radiance Sect's Outer Sect.
• When the Peacock Gate assassins drew near, Ji Lianyi urged Shen Leyan to leave for help, but Shen Leyan carried him onward and gave him the Playing Dead Method.
• The assassins' barrier trapped Shen Leyan, who returned to Ji Lianyi and pretended to be a new Peacock Gate recruit.
• The Chief Guardian ordered Shen Leyan to kill Ji Lianyi, and Shen Leyan took the dagger and walked toward him.

Shen Leyan pretended to kill Ji Lianyi to fool the Peacock Gate assassins, then helped him survive when a Confucian Grandmaster’s Haoran Bell disrupted their escape. The assassins fled, and Ji Lianyi received medicine from Ning Weimo, who hinted she had no intention of saving him.

• Shen Leyan and Ji Lianyi staged a fight, and Shen Leyan made Ji Lianyi appear dead before the Peacock Gate Guardian.
• The Guardian accepted the apparent death and led the assassins toward the Cloud Radiance Sect’s formation with Ji Lianyi’s supposed corpse.
• Ning Weimo’s Haoran Bell suppressed the assassins’ cultivation, and Shen Leyan volunteered to cover their retreat so the Guardian would leave with the Saint-Tier Artifact.
• Shen Leyan woke Ji Lianyi after the assassins escaped, and Ji Lianyi revealed that Ning Weimo had come to see whether he had died rather than to rescue him.
• Ning Weimo gave Ji Lianyi medicine and departed after he warned her that Shen Leyan had a Cicada Song Pavilion Token.

After saving Ji Lianyi from an assassination attempt, Shen Leyan worried that Ning Weimo might expose his involvement and endanger him. Lu Yuanyi considered killing Ning Weimo, but Shen Leyan urged him to wait and vowed to become strong enough to protect himself and the Cloud Radiance Sect.

• Shen Leyan returned to Ji Lianyi's residence, declined to get involved in serious business, and left as Ji Lianyi resumed his tyrannical act before the Imperial Guards.
• Shen Leyan woke covered in black sludge and told Lu Yuanyi, Qingli, and Chen Jing how he had encountered Ji Lianyi and helped him escape the Peacock Gate assassins.
• Lu Yuanyi explained that he had erased the memories of the disciples who escorted Shen Leyan back, but Shen Leyan feared Ning Weimo might recognize him and offer him to the assassination's mastermind.
• Lu Yuanyi said Ning Weimo supported the Third Prince and might help the mastermind by silencing Shen Leyan, then declared that killing her would not be difficult.
• Shen Leyan argued that threatening Ning Weimo to keep quiet was wiser than killing her, but Lu Yuanyi warned that a future Immortal-Demon War could leave Shen Leyan unprotected.
• Shen Leyan took the Jiangxue Sword and told Lu Yuanyi he would become strong enough to protect himself and the Cloud Radiance Sect, insisting that Lu Yuanyi stop talking about dying.

Ning Weimo killed the Peacock Gate assassins, while Ji Lianyi concealed his plans and worried about dragging Shen Leyan into danger. As Cloud Radiance Sect’s Apprenticeship Ceremony approached, several elders tried to recruit Shen Leyan, who ended the chapter asking Elder Qian Yun to sell him Hangover Soup.

• Ning Weimo used the Haoran Bell to kill the Peacock Gate assassins after learning from Sect Master Lu that they threatened his beloved disciple’s identity.
• Ji Lianyi rejected the attendant sent by the empress and privately resolved not to involve Shen Leyan in his affairs.
• Shen Leyan prepared for the Apprenticeship Ceremony as Chen Jing recovered, Qingli endured testing applicants, and Zheng Ziheng remained in the capital.
• Qingli and Chen Jing drank Rice Wine at Shen Leyan’s courtyard and fell asleep before the ceremony.
• Elder Yan Shi gave Shen Leyan a Pegasus and supplies in hopes of recruiting him to Beast Taming Peak, and Elder Xuanji offered him divination tools for the Nine Stars Pavilion.
• Elder Qian Yun tried to recruit Shen Leyan to Luoxiang Hall, but Shen Leyan asked him to sell Hangover Soup instead.

Shen Leyan returned the gifts he had received from Elder Yan Shi and Elder Xuanji while hurrying to the Apprenticeship Ceremony, though he accepted a warm jade pendant from Sect Master Lu. He arrived at the Martial Arts Training Ground just before the rites began, where several elders appeared troubled.

• Shen Leyan shared breakfast with Lu Yuanyi, admitted that the elders had given him gifts, and accepted a warm jade peace pendant from him.
• Shen Leyan returned Pegasus and the cart of gifts to Elder Yan Shi, who let him keep riding Pegasus to the ceremony.
• Shen Leyan returned Elder Xuanji's divination artifacts, prompting Xuanji's disciples to complain that their master had refused to lend them those items.
• Shen Leyan rode Pegasus to the Martial Arts Training Ground and joined the ceremony participants just before the gathering time ran out.
• The gathered disciples noticed that Elder Xuanji looked haggard and Elder Yan Shi seemed distracted, while Lu Yuanyi remained calm.

At the Cloud Radiance Sect’s Apprenticeship Ceremony, Shen Leyan won his first match by conserving his strength and outlasting his opponent. The second round began as a four-person free-for-all, leaving Shen Leyan to face the fight alone on Platform Seven.

• Lu Yuanyi’s peace pendant for Shen Leyan irritated the elders, and the sect held its morning sacrificial ceremony before beginning the Apprenticeship Ceremony.
• The Law Enforcement Hall elder announced a points-based tournament with standardized weapons, no healing pills, and no breaks between matches.
• Shen Leyan drew Platform Seven, Number One, and chose an iron sword for his first match against Number Eight, a strong fighter wielding two iron hammers.
• Shen Leyan dodged Number Eight’s attacks until his opponent exhausted himself and surrendered; Chen Jing and Ji Lianyi also won their first matches.
• After Shen Leyan helped Chen Jing recover Spiritual Power, the elder announced a four-person free-for-all, and Shen Leyan chose to fight independently on Platform Seven.
• The second-round incense burned out, and the elder from the Law Enforcement Hall ordered the matches to begin.

Shen Leyan survived the second round of the Apprenticeship Ceremony by outlasting two allied opponents, then entered the Boundless Gate for the third round. Lu Yuanyi concealed Shen Leyan’s screen from the elders and also ordered them to hide the crown prince’s screen.

• Shen Leyan dodged and provoked his two opponents until they fought each other, then defeated the exhausted Thunder-Metal Dual Spiritual Root disciple, who was recruited by a bearded elder.
• The Law Enforcement Hall elder opened the third round, sending the remaining contestants into the Boundless Gate to confront illusions drawn from their deepest fears.
• Worried that the Boundless Gate might reveal visions of the Immortal-Demon War, Shen Leyan entered the black vortex.
• Lu Yuanyi made Shen Leyan’s screen disappear and told the elders he would watch over him.
• Lu Yuanyi also ordered the elders to conceal the screen of the crown prince of Great Xia.

Shen Leyan entered the Boundless Gate and found the Cloud Radiance Sect devastated by a demonic assault, then discovered Bai Licheng was searching for Lu Yuanyi to sabotage his seclusion. He located Lu Yuanyi’s cave and persuaded the Jiangxue Sword to let him in so he could warn the sect master.

• Shen Leyan searched the ruined Cicada Song Pavilion for Lu Yuanyi, then disguised himself and headed down the mountain.
• Shen Leyan overheard Bai Licheng tell a Demon Clan soldier that Lu Yuanyi was still alive and that he would find and kill him.
• Bai Licheng uncovered the Teleportation Array in Cicada Song Pavilion and entered the snowy world of Myriad-Fathom Cliff; Shen Leyan followed him.
• Shen Leyan searched the nearby snowy mountain while Bai Licheng scoured distant peaks and caused an avalanche in frustration.
• Shen Leyan found Lu Yuanyi’s cave and explained the attack and Bai Licheng’s plot to the Jiangxue Sword.
• The Jiangxue Sword opened the cave’s defensive array, and Shen Leyan entered to find Lu Yuanyi meditating.

Shen Leyan woke Lu Yuanyi to warn him that Bai Licheng was coming, but Lu Yuanyi had recovered only thirty percent of his cultivation and Bai Licheng arrived before they could escape. Shen Leyan forced a breakthrough and fought beside the Jiangxue Sword, but Bai Licheng overwhelmed him as Lu Yuanyi began recovering his power.

• Shen Leyan roused Lu Yuanyi from secluded cultivation and warned him that Bai Licheng was tracking them to Myriad-Fathom Cliff.
• Lu Yuanyi revealed that his cultivation had not fully recovered and tried to send Shen Leyan away, but Bai Licheng arrived and surrounded the cave with Other Shore Flowers.
• Shen Leyan and the Jiangxue Sword held off Bai Licheng while Lu Yuanyi attempted to recover his spiritual power.
• Bai Licheng attacked with a sea of Other Shore Flowers and taunted Lu Yuanyi about the Cloud Radiance Sect's casualties and their past.
• Shen Leyan forced a breakthrough, replenished his spiritual power, and fought on, but Bai Licheng struck him into the cave wall and advanced to finish him.
• Outside the Boundless Gate, the Mind-Peering Demon Core panicked at the battle, and Lu Yuanyi ordered Shen Leyan's test to be ended early.