After subduing Divine Gun, Shi Feiyang first went over to Situ Ding.
Situ Ding's face was scarlet, his skin cracked and bleeding. He was badly injured and somewhat listless. The alternating assault of cold and heat had not merely tormented his body and spirit; it had also consumed a great deal of his vital energy.
Shi Feiyang had plenty of miraculous elixirs. A single pill would have made him as lively as a dragon and tiger again, but he gave him none. Instead, he taught him a cultivation method for mobilizing the heart and kidneys and harmonizing Kan and Li, leaving him to cultivate and recover slowly on his own. Once he recovered fully after two or three months, he would emerge transformed, as though reborn in a new body.
After settling Situ Ding, Shi Feiyang flew down into the Red Ravine Stone Prison beneath Wild Goose Lake.
Another magical treasure left by Yu the Great remained here, called the Great Yin Earth Net. Though it could not compare with Yu's Cauldron, its power was still considerable. Sealed here, it made the rock beneath the lake harder than Jin. Over thousands of years, Divine Gun had tried every means imaginable without breaking through it; otherwise, he would long since have tunneled underground and escaped.
After probing it, Shi Feiyang determined that the Great Yin Earth Net also used the twelve Yellow Path Yuanchen as its framework and the seventy-two Earthly Fiends for its transformations. It was also linked to the earth's energy, turning change into constancy and growing ever stronger over four thousand years.
Once he understood its workings, the rest was easy. With five Yellow Emperor's Golden Talismans, Shi Feiyang lifted it free and took it away.
Returning to the shore, Shi Feiyang opened Yu's Cauldron and released all