Recaps

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun disguised themselves as vicious ghosts and entered the queue outside Clear Harmony City, where Zhang Yuan humiliated Li Houjin and the wandering ghosts politely yielded their places. After passing the low-ranking Nether Bureau Soldier at the gate, Zhang Yuan wondered why such a weak guard had been posted there.

• Zhang Yuan planted Li Houjin in the ground after Li Houjin tried to force his way ahead, while Qin Tianyi sensed danger from Zhang Yuan and slipped into the city.
• Li Jingque persuaded Li Houjin not to attack Zhang Yuan, and Lu Jianqing mocked him for backing down.
• Li Zhongshuang recognized Zhang Yuan by his appearance and intuition as he queued in disguise with Xiao Yuanjun.
• The wandering ghosts began yielding their places to Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, allowing them to reach the city gate quickly.
• A qi refining-level Nether Bureau Soldier inspected Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun without detecting their disguises and let them enter Clear Harmony City.
• Zhang Yuan questioned why a weak soldier guarded the gate when Foundation Establishment Celestials could conceal their auras.

Zhang Yuan realized that the Celestial Persons had been lured into Clear Harmony City as part of a trap and tried to hide with Xiao Yuanjun. Lu Qingwu then exposed every concealed Celestial Person with a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure, and the city’s gates and escape routes were sealed, leaving them surrounded by Nether Bureau forces.

• Zhang Yuan suspected Wu Duanzhuo had arranged the easy entry into Clear Harmony City as a trap and hurried with Xiao Yuanjun to find shelter.
• Zhang Yuan explained his suspicions to Xiao Yuanjun, who questioned whether Wu Duanzhuo could defeat all the Celestial Persons in the city.
• Lu Qingwu appeared above the city and used his Brass Eight Trigrams Mirror to reveal the concealed auras of more than thirty Celestial Persons.
• A Day Patrol God declared that the Celestial Persons had trespassed and would be arrested and lose two hundred years of lifespan.
• The city gates sealed and a Yin Qi Barrier blocked escape, so the Celestial Persons unleashed their abilities and fought the approaching Nether Bureau forces.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun hid in a courtyard while Nether Bureau Ghost Deities overwhelmed the Celestial Persons in Clear Harmony City. The courtyard kept them safe during the battle, but Zhang Yuan spotted Nether Bureau Soldiers surrounding someone and approaching their gate.

• Zhang Yuan watched a group of ten Celestial Persons fail to defeat a Nether Bureau Ghost Soldier, who re-formed at Celestial Person perfection and captured their leader.
• Xiao Yuanjun pointed out that no Ghost Deities had come to arrest them, and Zhang Yuan realized the courtyard was somehow shielding them.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun stayed inside, ate, and watched Celestial Persons including Brother Qin, Ginseng, and Li Houjin fight the Ghost Deities.
• The Nether Bureau captured nearly eighty percent of the Celestial Persons, then its towering Ghost Deities left Clear Harmony City without damaging the city or harming its souls.
• Zhang Yuan peered through the gate and saw a squad of Nether Bureau Soldiers surrounding someone as they approached the courtyard.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun took shelter from the Nether Bureau in a hidden courtyard, where Li Zhongshuang arrived safely under the protection of the Eastern Bian Li Clan’s True Lord. The three shared a meal, and Zhang Yuan learned that Li Huixi had left Clear Harmony City early.

• Zhang Yuan hid behind the courtyard gate and prepared to kill the Nether Bureau Soldiers, but they escorted Li Zhongshuang inside instead.
• Li Zhongshuang explained that the soldiers had arranged lodging for her after the supreme treasure exposed her aura.
• Zhang Yuan realized the Nether Bureau treated Li Zhongshuang courteously because the Eastern Bian Li Clan’s True Lord backed her.
• Zhang Yuan invited Li Zhongshuang to eat with him and Xiao Yuanjun, who silently resented her presence.
• Zhang Yuan asked where Li Huixi had gone, and Li Zhongshuang said she had returned home early.

Lu Qingwu explained that he planned to use Celestial Persons’ lifespans to generate the death qi needed to bring Ya Kingdom into the Nether Bureau, and Wu Duanzhuo approved the plan. Wu Duanzhuo then ordered Lei Jingbian to visit Zhang Yuan, while Zhang Yuan and Li Zhongshuang resumed their conversation over Xiao Yuanjun’s head.

• Wu Duanzhuo confronted Lu Qingwu for antagonizing members of the Five Surnames and Seven Great Clans.
• Lu Qingwu explained that he would turn the Celestial Persons’ stolen lifespans into death qi to help bring Ya Kingdom into the Nether Bureau.
• Wu Duanzhuo approved Lu Qingwu’s plan and ordered Lei Jingbian to pay Zhang Yuan a visit.
• Xiao Yuanjun wondered why Zhang Yuan and Li Zhongshuang were whispering, but decided not to interrupt them.
• Li Zhongshuang asked Zhang Yuan for guidance on her final trial before Celestial Attainment, and Zhang Yuan declined to advise her without knowing what the trial involved.

Li Zhongshuang asked Zhang Yuan what kind of woman he liked, while Xiao Yuanjun jokingly declared herself his Dao Companion. As night fell in the ghost city, they settled into separate rooms, but a sudden gong sounded outside Zhang Yuan’s door.

• Li Zhongshuang blurted out that she wanted to know what kind of woman Zhang Yuan liked, and Zhang Yuan said he had not given his future wife much thought because he focused on becoming a True Lord.
• Xiao Yuanjun said Zhang Yuan needed no wife because having his master as his Dao Companion was enough.
• Li Zhongshuang warned Zhang Yuan that living people in the ghost city had to return indoors and light a lamp at night to avoid a search by the Nether Bureau's Night Patrol Gods.
• Zhang Yuan assigned Li Zhongshuang the west room and himself the East Room, while Xiao Yuanjun said she would sleep in the East Room with him.
• Zhang Yuan cleared the dust from the East Room, but a gong or drum suddenly sounded outside the door.

Lei Jingbian attacked Zhang Yuan in Clear Harmony City, claiming his copper gong let him evade the Night Patrol God. Zhang Yuan tricked him into revealing how the Night Watchman role worked and where Wu Duanzhuo and Lu Qingwu were, then took advantage of an illusion to prepare a strike at Lei Jingbian's neck.

• Lei Jingbian announced that he had come to kill Zhang Yuan and shattered Zhang Yuan's three-colored sword with a flick of his finger.
• Zhang Yuan questioned Lei Jingbian about his Night Watchman role, and Lei Jingbian explained that the gong let its holder move through the city at night without the Night Patrol God interfering.
• Lei Jingbian handed Zhang Yuan the copper gong and accidentally revealed that Wu Duanzhuo and Lu Qingwu were at the City Lord's Residence.
• Zhang Yuan mocked Lei Jingbian for being easy to deceive, and Lei Jingbian charged through the door with a punch that struck Zhang Yuan's illusion.
• Zhang Yuan appeared behind Lei Jingbian, formed an illusory blade from his qi, and raised it toward Lei Jingbian's neck.

Zhang Yuan trapped Lei Jingbian, a celestial person at perfection, with the [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls] and persuaded him not to break free and alert the Nether Bureau. The group secured their chance to obtain the Copper Gong, and Xiao Yuanjun suggested moving Lei Jingbian out of the Main Hall.

• Zhang Yuan overpowered Lei Jingbian and kicked him into the Main Hall, where he trapped him in a water prison with the [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls].
• Lei Jingbian discovered the treasure carried a trace of a golden position conceptual image and realized he could escape only by using enough strength to trigger the Nether Laws and alert the Nether Bureau.
• Zhang Yuan explained that breaking free would destroy the house and bring harsher punishment, convincing Lei Jingbian to remain trapped.
• Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Li Zhongshuang recognized that Lei Jingbian's capture left them positioned to obtain the Copper Gong needed to become Night Watchmen of Clear Harmony City.
• Xiao Yuanjun called Lei Jingbian an eyesore in the Main Hall and suggested moving him to the Firewood Shed while she temporarily fooled the house with her mystic wonder.

Zhang Yuan captured Lei Jingbian and moved him into the Courtyard’s Firewood Room before leaving with Xiao Yuanjun to explore a brightly lit street in Clear Harmony City. At the City Lord’s Residence, Wu Duanzhuo learned that Zhang Yuan had captured Lei alive and wondered how he had managed it.

• Zhang Yuan used [Yellow Springs Arrival] to move Lei Jingbian, the water prison, and the twelve Autumn and Winter [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls] into the Firewood Room.
• Zhang Yuan asked Li Zhongshuang to watch the house, then left with Xiao Yuanjun carrying Lei Jingbian’s bronze gong.
• Xiao Yuanjun led Zhang Yuan toward a brightly lit, lively street in foggy Clear Harmony City.
• Lu Qingwu told Wu Duanzhuo that Lei Jingbian had been captured alive and that Zhang Yuan was responsible.
• Wu Duanzhuo ruled out Jiang Peilan’s arrival and asked how Zhang Yuan had captured a Celestial Person at Perfection.

Wu Duanzhuo weighed the risks of becoming a True Lord and delayed his plans, while Lu Qingwu encountered a descendant of the Hengyang Lu Clan. Lu Jianqing revealed that he had come to cleanse the clan, leaving Lu Qingwu facing a threat from his own family.

• Wu Duanzhuo decided not to rush to rescue Lei Jingbian and discussed the Nether Bureau's plans with Lu Qingwu.
• Lu Qingwu told Wu Duanzhuo that the preparations were complete, but Wu Duanzhuo wanted to delay seeking the Dao for one year and ten months to avoid the five-hundred-year ban on becoming a Lord.
• Lu Qingwu left the city lord's residence and met Lu Jianqing, who identified himself as a descendant of the Hengyang Lu Clan and addressed Lu Qingwu as an ancestor.
• Lu Qingwu offered Lu Jianqing mortal blood essence, but Lu Jianqing claimed the Hengyang Lu Clan had abandoned its Demonic Dao practices.
• Lu Jianqing declared that he had come to cleanse the clan.

Lu Qingwu faced Lu Jianqing’s attempt to capture him, while Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun explored a ghost street and stopped to buy candied hawthorns. The chapter left Lu Qingwu fighting three puppets and the One-Armed Ghost considering the living pair’s yang qi as Zhang Yuan offered a spirit stone.

• Lu Qingwu threatened Lu Jianqing and demanded that he report back to the person who wanted to refine him into a Human Pill.
• Lu Jianqing used Teleportation Talismans, but Lu Qingwu sealed the surrounding space with black talismans.
• Lu Jianqing summoned three late-stage Celestial Person puppets and ordered them to attack Lu Qingwu as he joined the fight.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun walked through a ghost street, and Zhang Yuan offered to buy candied hawthorns after noticing her interest.
• The One-Armed Ghost quoted two copper coins per skewer and eyed Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun’s yang qi, but Zhang Yuan asked whether the Netherworld accepted spirit stones.

Zhang Yuan questioned Yan Yangzhe, a ghost and former head of the Yan family, about Clear Harmony City and learned that Lei Jingbian had been imprisoned beneath the city lord’s residence. After hearing Yan Yangzhe’s story, Zhang gave him a wisp of yang qi for his damaged wife and agreed to pass a message to Yan’s daughter, Yan Ruosi, if he encountered her in Capital City.

• Zhang Yuan paid Yan Yangzhe with a spirit stone to answer questions about Clear Harmony City’s daytime curfew and the Nether Bureau’s punishments.
• Yan Yangzhe told Zhang that Lei Jingbian had been arrested and that the city prison lay beneath the city lord’s residence.
• Yan Yangzhe revealed that he had been the head of the Yan family, a second-rank aristocratic clan destroyed in the demonic calamity, and asked Zhang for yang qi to help his witless wife.
• Zhang gave Yan Yangzhe a wisp of yang qi on behalf of Cui Qiezhe, whom Yan admired.
• Yan Yangzhe asked Zhang to pass a warning to his daughter Yan Ruosi if he met her in Capital City, and Zhang agreed.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun encountered Lu Jianqing being pursued by Lu Qingwu, the Wu Kingdom's Imperial Preceptor, and Zhang Yuan was drawn into their conflict. Zhang Yuan stopped Lu Qingwu's Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure with a mystic wonder, but Lu Qingwu then declared his intent to refine Zhang Yuan into a pill.

• Zhang Yuan decided to avoid the City Lord's Residence, but a seven-colored light shot toward him and he fled with Xiao Yuanjun.
• Lu Qingwu emerged from the mist and accused Lu Jianqing of relying on puppets before Lu Jianqing asked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun for help.
• Lu Qingwu attacked Zhang Yuan with his silver whisk, citing Zhang Yuan's role in the Fourth Prince's death while concealing his deeper grudge over Monk Jingjue.
• Zhang Yuan stepped forward and used a mystic wonder to make Lu Qingwu's whisk strands retract.
• Lu Qingwu recognized Zhang Yuan's mystic wonder and said he would refine Zhang Yuan's cultivation into a pill.

Zhang Yuan bluffed that his red pill contained Jiang Peilan’s Sword Qi, then used Xiao Yuanjun’s altered divine abilities to distract Lu Qingwu before striking him with the Sword Qi stored inside. Lu Qingwu was badly wounded, and Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun fled as Lu Jianqing moved to attack.

• Zhang Yuan claimed his red pill was a Sword Pill from Jiang Peilan, but Lu Qingwu saw through the bluff.
• Zhang Yuan attacked with Three-Colored Qi Light, and Xiao Yuanjun secretly altered its conceptual image so it could cut through Lu Qingwu’s whisk.
• Lu Qingwu countered with divine ability flames, canceling the Three-Colored Qi Light.
• A hidden streak of Sword Qi struck Lu Qingwu’s chest and reopened his wound.
• Lu Jianqing moved to press the attack, but Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun had already fled two li away, and Zhang Yuan called for Lu Jianqing to run.

Zhang Yuan escaped Lu Qingwu by using a strand of his own Sword Qi to frighten him, while Lu Qingwu revived Wu Yuqing, Wu Yuhei, and Old Monk Jingjue through a demonic scroll. Zhang Yuan returned safely to the Courtyard, unaware of the revivals, and declined Li Zhongshuang’s offer to summon a Night Patrol God.

• Zhang Yuan’s Sword Qi tricked Lu Qingwu into thinking he faced Jiang Peilan’s Sword Qi, allowing Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Lu Jianqing to escape.
• Lu Qingwu realized Zhang Yuan had deceived him and used a black scroll to revive Wu Yuqing, Wu Yuhei, and Old Monk Jingjue.
• Lu Qingwu’s scroll preserved the cultivators’ primordial spirit true numina, but each forced revival carried a limit of three returns.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun reached the Courtyard, where Zhang Yuan complained about encountering a Celestial Person Perfection.
• Li Zhongshuang offered to summon a Night Patrol God to arrest Lu Qingwu, but Zhang Yuan refused.

Zhang Yuan learned from Lu Jianqing that Lu Qingwu was a demonic ancestor of a Hengyang Lu Clan branch stranded in the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm, and that he planned to exploit the Nether Bureau’s sentences to expand his branch’s power. Zhang Yuan decided to save the imprisoned Celestial Persons without ruining Lu Qingwu’s larger plan, while slowing him down to protect Wu Duanzhuo’s progress.

• Lu Jianqing told Zhang Yuan that Lu Qingwu was a direct-line ancestor of the Hengyang Lu Clan who had returned from the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm.
• Lu Jianqing explained that the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm branch had abandoned its demonic ways, while Lu Qingwu’s branch had remained demonic after being stranded for a thousand years.
• Lu Jianqing suspected Lu Qingwu planned to seize the lifespans and vitality of Celestial Persons facing the Nether Bureau’s judgment and use them to sink the Ya Kingdom into the Nether Bureau.
• Lu Jianqing advised Zhang Yuan to release the imprisoned Celestial Persons before their sentences were carried out, but Zhang Yuan said he would save them without ruining Lu Qingwu’s plans.
• Zhang Yuan resolved to delay Lu Qingwu so Wu Duanzhuo would not seek truth and attain the Dao ahead of schedule.

Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Li Zhongshuang left for the Great Prison beneath the City Lord's Residence to stop Lu Qingwu from gathering death qi. Lu Qingwu arrived at their abandoned courtyard and harvested the karmic connections to Zhang Yuan from Old Monk Jingjue and Wu Yuhei, then trapped Wu Yuqing.

• Zhang Yuan decided to take Xiao Yuanjun and Li Zhongshuang to the Great Prison and leave Clear Harmony City once they secured the mysterious yin death qi.
• Xiao Yuanjun recalled their supplies, and the group left Lei Jingbian imprisoned in the courtyard before departing.
• Lu Qingwu arrived with Old Monk Jingjue, Wu Yuqing, and Wu Yuhei, knowing Zhang Yuan had already left but pursuing the karma connected to him.
• Lu Qingwu killed Old Monk Jingjue and transformed his qi-blood and soul into a karmic pill linked to Zhang Yuan.
• Wu Yuqing threw Wu Yuhei at Lu Qingwu in an attempt to escape, but Lu Qingwu turned Wu Yuhei into another karmic pill and immobilized Wu Yuqing with a silver thread.

Lu Qingwu killed Wu Yuqing and used the karma of him, Wu Yuhei, and Jingjue to cast the Hengyang Lu Clan’s Karmic Curse-Killing Art against Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan discovered that all three futures shown by [Heaven's Sight] ended in his death, and Lu Jianqing confirmed that his clan possessed the forbidden art but knew little about countering it.

• Lu Qingwu crushed Wu Yuqing, refined his flesh and soul into three pills, and used them with a black talisman to curse Zhang Yuan through the Karmic Curse-Killing Art.
• Lu Qingwu freed Lei Jingbian from the Firewood Shed, and Lei Jingbian pretended he had only been enjoying the cool air.
• Near the City Lord's Residence, Zhang Yuan and his companions found what they believed was the entrance to the Great Prison, while Xiao Yuanjun retrieved the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls and warned that Lu Qingwu had appeared.
• Zhang Yuan sensed danger, and Li Zhongshuang saw that his fortune had turned blood-red and warned him of a bloody calamity.
• Zhang Yuan used [Heaven's Sight] and saw three futures in which Lu Qingwu's curse killed him and sent his soul into reincarnation.
• Zhang Yuan asked Lu Jianqing about the Karmic Curse-Killing Art, and Lu Jianqing confirmed that his clan possessed the forbidden inheritance but said he knew little about it.

Zhang Yuan learned that Lu Qingwu’s Karmic Debt Life-Repayment Method could not be dispelled, so Xiao Yuanjun and Li Zhongshuang arranged to redirect the death curse onto Li Zhongshuang. The chapter ended with Zhang Yuan linking their karma while Xiao Yuanjun began concealing his and deceiving the curse.

• Lu Jianqing told Zhang Yuan that the Karmic Debt Life-Repayment Method could not be stopped.
• Xiao Yuanjun decided to hide Zhang Yuan’s karma and redirect the death curse onto herself, but Li Zhongshuang stopped her and offered to take it instead.
• Li Zhongshuang said the Eastern Bian Li Clan’s True Lord protected her, and Xiao Yuanjun agreed to help transfer the curse.
• Zhang Yuan thanked Li Zhongshuang and promised to repay her kindness, while she privately admitted she was unsure she would survive.
• Zhang Yuan used [Myriad Coexistence] to connect his karma to Li Zhongshuang, and Xiao Yuanjun began concealing his karma and deceiving the approaching curse.

After learning that Li Zhongshuang would die from taking on his curse, Zhang Yuan headed to Clear Harmony City's Great Prison to rescue the imprisoned Celestial Persons and disrupt Lu Qingwu's plans. He freed Qin Tianyi, who offered to lead him to Deng Qiuzhi, another captive Zhang Yuan wanted to confront.

• Zhang Yuan saw that his future had changed, but realized Li Zhongshuang had lied about being protected from death by a True Lord.
• Zhang Yuan and his companions concealed themselves and entered the Great Prison to rescue the Celestial Persons before their judgment at Zi Hour.
• Lu Jianqing explained the Nether Bureau's laws and told Zhang Yuan that the captured Celestial Persons had not yet been punished.
• Zhang Yuan found Qin Tianyi, erased his cell and binding chains with Three-Colored Qi Light, and freed him.
• Qin Tianyi revealed that Deng Qiuzhi was imprisoned in the Great Prison and offered to lead Zhang Yuan to him.

Zhang Yuan freed several Celestial Persons from the Great Prison and agreed to help Deng Qiuzhi escape at the Zi Hour, intending to use him against Lu Qingwu. With dawn approaching and Li Zhongshuang still in danger, Zhang Yuan prepared to confront Lu Qingwu and stopped Qin Tianyi from leaving.

• Zhang Yuan led Qin Tianyi underground, rescued Cui Wenshan and other Celestial Persons, and learned Cui Yuanxi was restless and eager to sneak out.
• Zhang Yuan found Deng Qiuzhi in the deepest cell and agreed to free him in exchange for a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure.
• Zhang Yuan gave Deng Qiuzhi a Three-Colored Pill that would break his shackles at the Zi Hour, planning to use him against Lu Qingwu.
• Zhang Yuan led the rescued Celestial Persons to the surface and urged them to escape Clear Harmony City before Lu Qingwu discovered their release.
• Qin Tianyi tried to leave with the others, but Zhang Yuan called him back to join the fight against Lu Qingwu.

Zhang Yuan gathered allies to confront Lu Qingwu, Wu Duanzhuo, and Lei Jingbian during the midnight trial in Clear Harmony City. As the trial began, Lu Qingwu revealed that he needed only Clear Harmony City to test [Ketu Thorn].

• Zhang Yuan persuaded Qin Tianyi to help hold off Lei Jingbian while Deng Qiuzhi dealt with Wu Duanzhuo.
• Zhang Yuan and his group spent the day in Clear Harmony City, then followed the crowd to the midnight trial.
• Deng Qiuzhi prepared to escape using the Three-Colored Pill and decided to help Zhang Yuan by confronting Wu Duanzhuo.
• Wu Duanzhuo asked Lu Qingwu whether the remaining prisoners would suffice for the ritual.
• Lu Qingwu said the prisoners' vitality would provide enough death qi to sink Clear Harmony City into the Nether Bureau and test [Ketu Thorn].

The Nether Bureau executed the Celestial Persons by deducting two hundred years from their heavenly lifespans, while Zhang Yuan launched his attack on Lu Qingwu. Qin Tianyi intercepted Lei Jingbian, leaving Wu Duanzhuo to confront Zhang Yuan as his Dusk Bell failed to subdue him.

• The Night Patrol God ordered the Ghost General to deduct two hundred years of lifespan from each captured Celestial Person, and Li Jingque was freed when his remaining lifespan ran out.
• Li Jingque ignored the imprisoned Celestial Persons’ pleas for help and fought a Nether Bureau Ghost Soldier outside Clear Harmony City.
• Zhang Yuan attacked Lu Qingwu with tricolored qi light, but Lu Qingwu dodged, and Lei Jingbian charged at Zhang Yuan.
• Qin Tianyi intercepted Lei Jingbian and evaded his punches by transforming into cyan lightning.
• Wu Duanzhuo used [Dusk Bell] on Zhang Yuan, but [Immaculate Primordial Spirit] suppressed its effect, and Zhang Yuan mocked him.

Wu Duanzhuo and Deng Qiuzhi fought across Clear Harmony City while Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun confronted Lu Qingwu. After Lu Qingwu drew out the mysterious yin death qi, he carried it toward the firmament and challenged them to follow.

• Wu Duanzhuo attacked Zhang Yuan, but Deng Qiuzhi intervened and clashed with Wu Duanzhuo instead of joining him.
• Lu Qingwu recognized that Zhang Yuan had survived by letting someone else die in his place and offered to make him a disciple.
• Xiao Yuanjun forced Lu Qingwu out of the air, and Zhang Yuan reassured her that she was his only master.
• Lu Qingwu transformed the vitality of more than twenty Celestial Persons into death qi, causing a strand of mysterious yin death qi to emerge in Clear Harmony City.
• Lu Qingwu captured the mysterious yin death qi and flew toward the firmament, inviting Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to fight beyond the heavens.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun pursued Lu Qingwu into Outer Chaos, where Zhang Yuan realized the danger of fighting a perfected Celestial Person without the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm’s suppression. While preparing for the confrontation, he discovered why the realm had favored him as an Otherworlder and feared that his original world had been destroyed when he arrived.

• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun followed Lu Qingwu beyond the heavens in the Golden Carriage Luan Chariot.
• The three reached Outer Chaos, where Lu Qingwu calmly faced Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan brought out the Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner and Western Duguang Bridge-Sky Banner as Xiao Yuanjun explained how Celestial Persons could destroy worlds in chaos.
• Zhang Yuan divined that Otherworlders entered the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm carrying either cultivation or their original world’s favor.
• Zhang Yuan concluded that the realm’s favor came from his arrival with an entire world and feared that his original world had become dust in Outer Chaos.