Shi Feiyang sent Old Hao back to gather the Black Fiend Sect members who had participated, sent Cang Baoniang back to restrain the Zombies on Badou Mountain, and sent Zhu Ying back with orders to keep her disciples and the One Hundred Thousand Evil Ghosts in check.
He ordered them to close their gates and seal off their mountains once they returned. They were forbidden to accept new followers or venture down the mountains, and had to sever all ties with worldly affairs.
The Boatmen's Guild was much more secular, and most of its business consisted of ordinary trade, so Shi Feiyang did not let its leader return.
He had originally intended to use the evil cultists of Black Fiend Mountain, the Zombies of Badou Mountain, and the Evil Ghosts of Ghost Mother Mountain as three training grounds to continue honing Cao Yunfei and the others. He had even arranged in advance for Ghost Mother Zhu Ying to build a secret passage from beneath Two Forms Palace to Ghost Mother Mountain.
But Deng Yin had gone over too quickly, forcing him to send Gongye Huang there ahead of schedule. None of those arrangements were needed anymore, so he sealed off the mountains and ordered their inhabitants to cultivate there on their own.
Another reason was that he could not simply slaughter all those Zombies and Evil Ghosts indiscriminately, nor could he deal with them all at once, while his trip to Qiao Mountain required him to arrive early and make preparations.
He summoned his newly accepted disciples and sent Li Zhenchuan to the Ming-Yu Immortal Market to share authority with Jiang Dachuan. From then on, Jiang Dachuan would oversee only the "immortal" side, while Li Zhenchuan managed the "mortal" side.
The Immortal Market was growing ever more prosperous, attracting more