The flying sword Deng Yin had directed Chan Master Xiaoyue to retrieve was the Purple Ying Sword.
Before Elder Longbrow ascended in years past, he had hidden the Purple Ying and Azure Cord immortal swords in two separate locations on Mangcang Mountain, leaving them for two future granddisciples to retrieve.
Those two were Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun, both counted among the Three Ying and Two Yun. Li Yingqiong would wield the Purple Ying Sword and become the next generation's sect leader of the Emei Sect.
Elder Longbrow had cast spells over both locations to conceal their heavenly secrets. No outsider could divine them, unless they were someone like Shi Feiyang, who had read the original story and come from the Otherworld.
Deng Yin, however, was a special case. The Purple Ying Sword had once been his personal sword, carried with him and refined and nurtured for several hundred years. It was unlike other immortal swords to him, so he could locate it. He had no idea where the Azure Cord Sword was.
Following his instructions, Chan Master Xiaoyue first flew to Mangcang Mountain, found the ruined temple where the sword was hidden, and slew the zombies inside.
Elder Longbrow had separated the Purple Ying Sword into its hilt and blade. The blade had long since gained sentience and transformed into a dragon, hiding elsewhere. To retrieve the sword, one first had to obtain its hilt.
Just as Chan Master Xiaoyue was searching for the hilt, Lady Miaoyi, Xun Lanyin, who was cultivating on Emei Mountain, suddenly felt a stirring of forewarning.
Since the Second Sword Duel, the Emei Sect's elders had been diligently advancing their cultivation while divining the sect's future fortunes. They discovered that many things originally destined for Emei disciples had been taken ahead of time. The