Recaps

Zhang Yuan used Xiao Yuanjun’s mystic wonder to trick Lu Qingwu into losing his Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure and securing the mysterious yin death qi. When Lu Qingwu revealed that his curse could not be undone even by his death, Zhang Yuan considered seeking help from powerful True Lords to save the person who had shouldered his karma.

• Zhang Yuan ambushed Lu Qingwu with Xiao Yuanjun’s help and used [Yellow Springs Drink] to make him drop his whisk.
• Zhang Yuan had the [Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner] and [Western Duguang Bridge-Sky Banner] suppress the whisk, securing it and the mysterious yin death qi.
• Lu Qingwu declined to fight without his Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure and questioned why Zhang Yuan had sought him out instead of fleeing.
• Zhang Yuan asked whether Lu Qingwu could undo the 'Karmic Debt Life-Repayment Method,' and Lu Qingwu said the secret art could not be stopped, even if he died.
• Zhang Yuan considered retreating and asking the True Lords he knew for help saving the person who had taken on his karma.

Lu Qingwu attacked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun with deadly Yin Thunder, while fighting across Clear Harmony City began to wind down and Wu Duanzhuo prepared to seek truth. A Golden Carriage and two Thunder Pools then fell toward Lei Jingbian, interrupting his battle with Qin Tianyi.

• Lu Qingwu hurled two Thunder Pools of black Yin Thunder at Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, and Zhang Yuan weakened them with [First Under Heaven, Past and Present].
• Lu Qingwu restored power to the Thunder Pools and decided his Hengyang Lu Clan could afford to kill Zhang Yuan regardless of who backed him.
• Wu Duanzhuo and Deng Qiuzhi stopped fighting at Clear Harmony City’s battlements, and Deng Qiuzhi left as Wu Duanzhuo prepared to seek truth through [Ketu Thorn].
• Qin Tianyi refused Lei Jingbian’s challenge to fight beyond the heavens and continued evading his attacks with [Thunder Rumbles].
• A Golden Carriage plunged from the sky toward Lei Jingbian before vanishing, leaving two Thunder Pools to crash down at him.

Wu Duanzhuo and Lu Qingwu each tried to attain [Ketu Thorn], but both were rejected by a voice from the Nether Bureau. Clear Harmony City vanished around them, leaving Zhang Yuan and the others stranded in an unfamiliar space among powerful ghost deities.

• Zhang Yuan chose to let Wu Duanzhuo seek truth, while Lu Qingwu watched and planned to take his place if he succeeded.
• Wu Duanzhuo declared that he had sunk the Ya Kingdom into the Nether Bureau, but [Ketu Thorn] vanished after briefly appearing, and Wu Duanzhuo realized the rite had gone wrong.
• Lu Qingwu began his own truth-seeking declaration, but a voice from beneath Clear Harmony City said, "Denied."
• Clear Harmony City dissolved, and Nether Bureau Ghost Soldiers, Ghost Generals, and Day and Night Patrol Gods appeared, all at celestial person perfection.
• Zhang Yuan found Li Zhongshuang alive and confronted Lu Qingwu, who admitted he did not know what had happened and urged them to flee the Nether Bureau.

Lu Qingwu created an Immortal Deity Gate to escape the Nether Bureau, but Zhang Yuan rushed toward it with Xiao Yuanjun and Li Zhongshuang. When Zhang Yuan learned it led to the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm, he asked True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts for advice and chose to seek help there.

• Lu Qingwu and Wu Duanzhuo sacrificed tens of thousands of resurrected Demonic Cultivators to form an Immortal Deity Gate.
• Zhang Yuan chained himself to Lu Qingwu, then used [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] to carry Xiao Yuanjun and Li Zhongshuang toward the gate.
• Lu Qingwu changed the landscapes beyond the gate, while Zhang Yuan realized it led to the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm and hesitated over entering.
• Zhang Yuan summoned True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts, who offered to burn away Li Zhongshuang's Karmic Curse-Killing Art if she reached him.
• True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts told Zhang Yuan that he could escape across chaos into the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm, while withholding that Jiang Peilan and an Eastern Ya Cui Clan True Lord's avatar were coming to help.

Jiang Peilan destroyed Lu Qingwu and Wu Duanzhuo’s escape gate, and Qiming arrived and killed them with one sword strike. After learning Zhang Yuan had gone to Clear Void’s homeland and was safe, Qiming was confronted by Li Huixi for breaking her rules.

• Zhang Yuan crossed the gate of flesh and blood, but Jiang Peilan arrived and slashed it apart before Lu Qingwu and Wu Duanzhuo could escape through it.
• Qiming arrived beside Jiang Peilan, then killed Lu Qingwu and Wu Duanzhuo with a single sword strike as Qin Tianyi watched and begged for his life.
• Jiang Peilan learned from Qin Tianyi that Zhang Yuan had passed through the destroyed gate, then let Qin Tianyi escape through the rift.
• Qiming told Jiang Peilan that Zhang Yuan had gone to Clear Void’s homeland, was not in danger, and would return soon.
• Li Huixi appeared and accused Qiming of breaking her rules by using a trace of [Grand White Edge] profound mystery to kill Lu Qingwu and Wu Duanzhuo.

[Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] obtained Li Huixi’s permission to deliver treasures to Zhang Yuan, who had already left the realm, and Li Huixi sent them safely through the broken Flesh Gate. Zhang Yuan awoke at a sect’s disciple-selection ceremony, concealed his aura, and was identified as having a top-grade five elements waste spiritual root.

• Li Huixi allowed [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] to send Zhang Yuan the twelve pearls and [Bright Yang Chengsheng Armor], then passed the treasures through the broken Flesh Gate without damaging them.
• Li Huixi told [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] to clear the yin qi from the Ya Kingdom, and she and Jiang Peilan left the Nether Bureau.
• Zhang Yuan awoke at a sect’s disciple-selection ceremony and used [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying] to conceal his aura and karmic ties.
• Zhang Yuan approached Ding Xun and placed his hand on the Spirit-Testing Stone.
• The Spirit-Testing Stone revealed Zhang Yuan’s top-grade five elements waste spiritual root, and Ding Xun directed him to stand aside.

Zhang Yuan joined the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s recruitment ceremony after Heaven and Earth arranged a plausible identity for him, and he learned that the powerful sect was holding three trials for prospective disciples. At the first trial, Deng Bai drew attention with his immortal spirit root and ambition to become Fairy Xuan Su’s disciple, then noticed Zhang Yuan ignoring him.

• Zhang Yuan joined the remaining candidates and traced Karma, discovering that Heaven and Earth seemed to want him to enter the sect.
• Ding Xun announced that candidates with spiritual roots would face three trials to join the Azure Nether Immortal Sect, and Zhang Yuan learned the sect was a major power.
• Deng Bai asked Ding Xun about the trials, and Ding Xun used Void Evasion to transport the candidates to the first trial.
• The candidates discussed their prospects, while Deng Bai said he hoped to become Fairy Xuan Su’s disciple.
• Deng Bai glanced at Jiang Le'an and the other candidates, then fixed his gaze on Zhang Yuan when he saw him ignoring the conversation.

Zhang Yuan tried to fail the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s first trial by walking the wrong way through a Mind-Muddling Formation. As the elders watched the candidates, someone emerged from the bamboo grove, but no one was there.

• Zhang Yuan decided to leave the Azure Nether Immortal Sect and deliberately fail its trial, then recognized that the bamboo grove concealed a Mind-Muddling Formation.
• Zhang Yuan walked straight through the grove without letting the formation redirect him, while the other candidates scattered into it.
• Wenzhenzi and the elders discussed Jiang Xinyi accepting a true disciple despite the candidate’s worthless spirit root.
• Qin Jieyu arrived as the elders watched the candidates, and they praised Jiang Le'an and Deng Bai’s progress.
• A humming announced that someone had passed the first trial, but the elders found no one at the grove’s exit.

Zhang Yuan tried to fail the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s recruitment trials so he could escape, but the sect counted his backward exit from the first trial as a pass. At the second trial, he pretended to be overwhelmed by a Dao Domain fragment’s pressure, then was shoved forward beyond the required three steps.

• Wenzhenzi recognized Zhang Yuan as Jiang Xinyi’s arranged True Disciple and ruled that he had passed the first trial despite leaving the bamboo grove in the wrong direction.
• Zhang Yuan waited for the Azure Nether Immortal Sect to declare him failed, but Wenzhenzi teleported him to the second trial, where the receiving disciple announced the first trial’s time limit had ended.
• The receiving disciple explained that candidates had to take three steps under the pressure of a stone obtained by Fairy Xuan Su after slaying a Demon Realm Demonic Cultivator.
• Zhang Yuan recognized the stone as a Celestial Person’s scattered Dao Domain fragment and pretended its pressure had stopped him after one step.
• Someone approaching from behind collided with Zhang Yuan and sent him stumbling several steps forward, past the three-step requirement and close to the boulder.

Zhang Yuan passed the second trial after Deng Bai deliberately shoved him, and he resolved to kill Deng Bai rather than tolerate the attack. At the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s Apprenticeship Ceremony, Zhang Yuan discovered that the realm’s Heavenly Dao had cast him as an obstacle in Deng Bai and Jiang Xinyi’s arranged tribulation of love, but he rejected its plan and intended to flee after killing Deng Bai.

• Deng Bai deliberately shoved Zhang Yuan into the trial’s pressure, but Zhang Yuan endured it and passed.
• Deng Bai offered a tearful apology, which Zhang Yuan ignored as he vowed to kill him that night.
• The second trial ended, and the surviving candidates were transported to the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s Main Peak.
• Zhang Yuan examined the sect’s senior figures and traced the realm’s arrangement to Jiang Xinyi’s tribulation of love with Deng Bai.
• Zhang Yuan rejected the Heavenly Dao’s plan to make him an obstacle and decided to kill Deng Bai and escape.

At the disciple-selection ceremony, Deng Bai became Jiang Xinyi’s True Disciple, while Zhang Yuan rejected her offer and chose to serve under Supreme Elder Qin Jieyu. As Deng Bai mocked him afterward, Zhang Yuan’s warning triggered an overwhelming pressure that left Deng Bai fearing for his life.

• Jiang Le'an and the other candidates were assigned masters, and Deng Bai refused the Third Elder’s offer in favor of Jiang Xinyi.
• Jiang Xinyi accepted Deng Bai as a True Disciple, then offered to take Zhang Yuan as one too, but he declined.
• Zhang Yuan chose Qin Jieyu’s peak, and Qin Jieyu agreed to take him in despite Wenzhenzi’s reservations.
• After the ceremony, Zhang Yuan warned Deng Bai to sleep with his eyes open, and Deng Bai was struck by crushing pressure he suspected came from Zhang Yuan.

After Deng Bai left with Jiang Xinyi, Qin Jieyu claimed Zhang Yuan as her disciple and explained that Demon Realm Devil Lords had stolen the lifespans attached to the cultivation realms. She brought Zhang Yuan to remote Flying Immortal Peak, where he asked which peak Jiang Xinyi lived on.

• Zhang Yuan concealed his celestial status from Deng Bai, who called for Jiang Xinyi before she took him away through space.
• Qin Jieyu asked Zhang Yuan to call her Master, accepted that he already had a master, and declared herself his second master.
• Qin Jieyu explained that Demon Realm Devil Lords had stolen the names and lifespans of Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core during a past Chaos calamity.
• Qin Jieyu gave Zhang Yuan Essence Nurturing Pills and led him to her small wooden house on Flying Immortal Peak.
• Zhang Yuan asked Qin Jieyu which peak Jiang Xinyi lived on.

Zhang Yuan secretly went to Floating Splendor Peak and killed Deng Bai, who had threatened to take revenge on him. He then used his karmic connections to search for Xiao Yuanjun and Li Zhongshuang, particularly worrying about Li Zhongshuang’s condition.

• Qin Jieyu warned Zhang Yuan that Floating Splendor Peak’s women were skilled at deceiving people and gave him a rust-covered Ritual Sword.
• After Qin Jieyu fell asleep, Zhang Yuan used his karmic connection with Deng Bai to locate him on Floating Splendor Peak.
• Deng Bai threatened Zhang Yuan and begged for his life, but Zhang Yuan silenced him and dissolved his body and soul.
• Zhang Yuan concluded that his Foundation Establishment strength made him nearly invincible in the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm.
• Zhang Yuan sensed that Xiao Yuanjun had reached the Celestial Mid-Stage and searched for her and Li Zhongshuang, whose condition worried him.

After Deng Bai’s death triggered the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s protective formation, Zhang Yuan avoided forcing his way out and received the powerful artifact treasures sent by the Eastern Ya Cui Clan’s True Lord. The next morning he left Flying Immortal Peak to find Li Zhongshuang, while Jiang Xinyi arrived to tell Qin Jieyu that her disciple was dead.

• Zhang Yuan discovered that Li Zhongshuang had reached the celestial realm and was nearby, but the sect’s protective formation blocked his exit, so he returned to Flying Immortal Peak.
• The Eastern Ya Cui Clan’s True Lord sent Zhang Yuan the [Bright Yang Chengsheng Armor] and [Primordial Form-Converging], a Life-Bound Flying Sword that could transform into a spear or twelve mystic pearls.
• Zhang Yuan slept through the night, then told Qin Jieyu he wanted to visit a town outside the sect.
• Qin Jieyu warned Zhang Yuan against speaking to strangers, especially unfamiliar women, and watched as he left the mountain.
• Jiang Xinyi arrived and told Qin Jieyu, “My disciple is dead.”

Jiang Xinyi tried to take Zhang Yuan as her new disciple after Deng Bai died, but Qin Jieyu refused and Wenzhenzi intervened. Zhang Yuan then visited Li Zhongshuang in East Prosperity Town and discussed her plans to protect herself from the Curse-Killing.

• Jiang Xinyi demanded that Qin Jieyu give Zhang Yuan to her as a replacement disciple, and Qin Jieyu refused.
• Jiang Xinyi and Qin Jieyu nearly fought until Wenzhenzi arrived and reminded Jiang Xinyi that Zhang Yuan already had two Masters; Jiang Xinyi then left.
• Wenzhenzi left Flying Immortal Peak to investigate Deng Bai's death and the possibility that a Human Immortal of the Ancient Immortal Dao had infiltrated the sect.
• Zhang Yuan traveled to East Prosperity Town and visited Li Zhongshuang, who had become a Celestial Person and the owner of a teahouse.
• Li Zhongshuang called Zhang Yuan “my dear,” and Zhang Yuan advised her to forge a Dao Domain to improve her chances of surviving the Curse-Killing when she returned to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
• Li Zhongshuang agreed to forge a Dao Domain and offered Zhang Yuan a place to stay.

Zhang Yuan reunited with Li Zhongshuang and decided to remain in the Azure Nether Immortal Sect while seeking a way to counter the Karmic Curse-Killing Art. Back at Flying Immortal Peak, he accepted a house from Jiang Xinyi and grew suspicious when Qin Jieyu questioned him about speaking with a woman.

• Zhang Yuan told Li Zhongshuang he would stay at the Azure Nether Immortal Sect to learn about the realm and search for a way to counter the Karmic Curse-Killing Art.
• Zhang Yuan urged Li Zhongshuang to stay hidden and avoid going out, and she agreed to follow his plan.
• Zhang Yuan returned to Flying Immortal Peak and thanked Jiang Xinyi for building him a house after she insisted he call her Junior Niece Jiang.
• Qin Jieyu questioned Zhang Yuan about his trip to town and whether he had spoken to a woman, making him suspect she had watched him.
• Qin Jieyu lent Zhang Yuan her identity Command Token so he could visit the Scripture Pavilion, but forbade him from speaking to women there or returning to the teahouse.

Zhang Yuan explored the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s Scripture Pavilion and discovered clues linking Chen Xinqiao’s past incarnation to the sect. He learned that the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm’s cultivation lineage had lost the Spirit Transformation Realm, leaving Nascent Soul cultivators unable to advance normally.

• Zhang Yuan used Qin Jieyu’s identity Command Token to enter the Scripture Pavilion, where Jiang Le'an let him access every floor.
• On the fifth floor, Zhang Yuan found an incomplete Primordial Unity One Qi Body-Refining Treasure Scripture and wondered whether True Person Qingxu had once belonged to the Azure Nether Immortal Sect.
• On the sixth floor, Zhang Yuan studied a map showing the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm as a vast ocean dotted with islands and sensed that his Master was moving through the Northern Sea.
• Zhang Yuan read that the realm’s cultivation path had nine stages, including Nascent Soul, Purple Mansion, mahayana, and tribulation transcendence.
• Zhang Yuan concluded that True Lords had erased the Spirit Transformation Realm from the cultivation lineage, forcing cultivators to create the Purple Mansion Realm as a replacement.

Zhang Yuan chose the Taiyi True Qi Art as an introductory cultivation technique and returned to Flying Immortal Peak, where Qin Jieyu served him a nourishing chicken soup. After hearing about True Person Qingxu’s rise through body cultivation, Zhang Yuan agreed to try that path, and Qin Jieyu offered to prepare him a medicinal bath.

• Zhang Yuan reasoned that the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm had survived chaos calamities thanks to cultivators who could contend with True Lords, then chose the Taiyi True Qi Art for his poor aptitude.
• Zhang Yuan returned to Flying Immortal Peak after dark and found Qin Jieyu waiting with chicken soup enriched with nourishing medicinal ingredients.
• Qin Jieyu praised Zhang Yuan for choosing the Taiyi True Qi Art and told him that True Person Qingxu had reached Golden Core in a year despite having a waste spiritual root.
• Qin Jieyu explained that True Person Qingxu had devised a powerful body-refining technique but vanished during a chaos calamity, leaving only an incomplete fragment behind.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to try body cultivation, and Qin Jieyu said she would prepare a medicinal bath for him the next day.

Zhang Yuan struggled to cultivate with his Waste Spiritual Root but used his celestial person status to gather spiritual energy and reached the Outer Dao Qi Refining First Layer. He gave up on pursuing the Beyond-the-World Qi Refining Path and turned to refining his two Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure banners.

• Qin Jieyu brought Zhang Yuan a lamp and quilt, warned him to come to her if anything happened, and left him wondering whether she knew about his trip to kill Deng Bai.
• Zhang Yuan found only tiny remnants of his Immortal Spirit Root and struggled to gather and refine spiritual energy with his Waste Spiritual Root.
• Zhang Yuan used his celestial person status to draw spiritual energy into a vortex and refined his first wisp of spiritual power at midnight, entering the Outer Dao Qi Refining First Layer.
• Zhang Yuan judged that the Beyond-the-World Qi Refining Path would take too long and stopped cultivating it.
• Zhang Yuan sealed Lu Qingwu's whisk and put it in his Dao Domain, then prepared to refine the [Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner] and [Western Duguang Bridge-Sky Banner].

Zhang Yuan refined two Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures and learned they belonged to a set of five banners whose combined power could surpass a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure. When he met with Xiao Yuanjun, she misunderstood his work with Qin Jieyu as taking a new master, then revealed that a Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect Immortal Lord was hunting her.

• Zhang Yuan refined the Eastern and Western banners, gaining the Thunderbolt Charge and Sky-Splitting divine effects and sensing that another banner was nearby.
• Zhang Yuan followed Xiao Yuanjun's invitation into her Dao Domain, where she asked whether he admitted his wrongdoing.
• Zhang Yuan explained that Qin Jieyu had not become his master, and Xiao Yuanjun relaxed after misunderstanding that he had taken a new master.
• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan that she was in the Northern Sea and being hunted by an Immortal Lord from the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect.
• Xiao Yuanjun described Immortal Lords as stronger than Celestial Person perfection but below True Lords, leaving Zhang Yuan unconcerned.

Zhang Yuan planned to use the new disciples’ excursion to reach the island where the Five-Direction Banner would appear, while searching for a way to neutralize his Karmic Curse-Killing Art. He left Qin Jieyu unaware of his plans and arranged to depart the next day, telling Li Zhongshuang that the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect might hold the answer.

• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan she would take two or three days to reach him and promised to settle scores with his pursuer, then left when the Three-Eyes caught up with her.
• Zhang Yuan told Qin Jieyu he wanted to gain experience, and she agreed to send him with the new disciples on an excursion in three days.
• Zhang Yuan spent two days studying the scripture pavilion and learned that the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect had once neutralized the Hengyang Lu Clan’s Karmic Curse-Killing Art.
• Zhang Yuan secretly left for East Prosperity Town and told Li Zhongshuang that they would need to visit the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect to neutralize the curse.
• Zhang Yuan declined Li Zhongshuang’s offer to accompany him, discussed her pursuit of [Golden Palace Sand], and learned that the Little Ancestor was the True Lord who had attained the Dao most recently.

Zhang Yuan joined the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s training expedition to Jade Ravine Island, where he believed the Five-Direction Banner lay inside an ancient secret realm. He left the sect’s boat behind and reached the island ahead of the others as nearby factions awaited the High Sect’s arrival.

• Qin Jieyu discovered Zhang Yuan had visited Li Zhongshuang at the teahouse and warned him against speaking to strange women during the expedition.
• Zhang Yuan gathered with the sect’s new and senior disciples, and Fifth Elder Huang Boyong announced their trip to the secret realm at Jade Ravine Island.
• After boarding the sect’s boat, Zhang Yuan used the Western Duguang Bridge-Sky Banner to escape and flew toward Jade Ravine Island ahead of the group.
• At Jade Ravine Island, representatives from nearby factions discussed the secret realm’s restriction and prepared to welcome an Azure Nether Immortal Sect elder.

Zhang Yuan arrived at Jade Ravine Island and seized the hidden realm with overwhelming force, stunning the cultivators who had gathered to enter it. Just as he savored his display of power, a familiar voice from the north warned him to run.

• Zhang Yuan told the gathered cultivators that he was not a member of the Azure Nether Immortal Sect, while Old Demon Luo and others tried to win his favor.
• Zhang Yuan summoned the [Primordial Form-Converging Mystic Pearl] and used its divine effect to drive back the sea and reveal Jade Ravine Island.
• Zhang Yuan used [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance] and [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] to crush the island’s formation and shrink the island into his hand.
• The cultivators watched in awe as Zhang Yuan took possession of Jade Ravine Island, and he reflected that cultivation in this realm was far safer than in the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
• A familiar voice from the north called out, “Zhang Yuan, run!”

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun fled Immortal Lord Huizhao after Xiao Yuanjun stole Ding Fire from the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect. Xiao Yuanjun gave Zhang Yuan the flame to refine, but they prioritized escaping the pursuing Immortal Lord.

• Immortal Lord Huizhao pursued Xiao Yuanjun and attacked Zhang Yuan, who escaped with Xiao Yuanjun and Jade Ravine Island in the Golden Carriage.
• Old Demon Luo and Chu Yan decided to report the encounter to the High Sect's elder rather than involve themselves.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that she had taken Ding Fire and other spiritual objects after defeating a Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect disciple and a Purple Mansion elder.
• Xiao Yuanjun gave Zhang Yuan the Ding Fire she had seized for him, and Zhang Yuan urged her to help him evade Immortal Lord Huizhao first.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun escaped Immortal Lord Huizhao by hiding beneath the sea in the Golden Carriage, where Zhang Yuan refined the ding fire. After a month of Huizhao searching and feigning departure, Zhang Yuan decided to wait ten more days before leaving in case she returned.

• Immortal Lord Huizhao pursued Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, suspecting they had come from the Demon Realm, but their illusory Golden Carriage vanished and they escaped to the seabed.
• Zhang Yuan praised Xiao Yuanjun’s plan to use a past-life body and an illusory carriage to distract Huizhao while they concealed themselves.
• Xiao Yuanjun settled down to sleep inside the carriage, and Zhang Yuan began refining the ding fire into [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain].
• For a month, Zhang Yuan checked whether Huizhao had left as she repeatedly searched, pretended to depart, and doubled back to catch them.
• Huizhao finally vanished after concluding Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun were gone, but Zhang Yuan chose to wait another ten days before emerging.