Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan left Evil Ghost Gorge, planning to go first to Savage Mountain in Guizhou to find someone.
Shi Feiyang's arrival had changed many things. On Unfixed Island in the Northern Sea, his music had inadvertently affected the Earthfrost Bell. After contemplating the sounds of earth music for days, Ancestor Hollow Space had broken through his bottleneck in one stroke.
Even then, Ancestor Hollow Space's magical power had been immense, far surpassing Shi Feiyang's at the time. But he followed the unorthodox path: his power was great, yet his understanding of the Dao was shallow. Once he reached a certain point, he found no road ahead and remained trapped at his old level for years.
In truth, he had been only one final step away. Shi Feiyang had pierced that last thin "sheet of window paper," allowing him to attain the realm of an Earth Immortal in a single leap. Combining this insight with his existing arts, he had developed many new Spells and refined new magic treasures, and his strength had advanced by leaps and bounds.
Later, when Zheng Yuan Gui fled to the Central Plains, he went out to hunt him down and gather medicinal herbs along the way. There, he encountered Chan Master Xiaoyue.
At the time, Chan Master Xiaoyue was still Miechenzi. Resentful that Elder Longbrow had chosen Qi Shouming as his successor, he wanted to put forward his eldest senior brother, Xuanzhenzi, as sect leader.
Instead, Xuanzhenzi scolded him, then went off to Turtle-Fishing Rock and never returned to Emei Mountain, making it clear that he had no designs on the position of sect leader.
All his fellow disciples blamed him. In a fit of anger, he left Emei Mountain to wander, and encountered Cloud-Chasing Elder Bai Guyi. He asked Bai Guyi to judge