Recaps

Immortal Lord Huizhao went to the Azure Nether Immortal Sect to borrow its immortal artifact and search for Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, whom she suspected were demon-realm cultivators. At Flying Immortal Peak, Qin Jieyu asked Huizhao how to handle her new disciple reuniting with a former master, and Huizhao advised her to bring them both into the sect.

• Immortal Lord Huizhao arrived at the Azure Nether Immortal Sect and told Wenzhenzi that two Earth Immortals who had appeared in its territory might have come from the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
• Wenzhenzi let Immortal Lord Huizhao proceed to Flying Immortal Peak to discuss the matter with Qin Jieyu.
• Qin Jieyu told Immortal Lord Huizhao that her new disciple had reunited with a previous master and asked what she should do.
• Immortal Lord Huizhao advised Qin Jieyu to bring the former master and disciple into the sect, then let their bond run its course.

Qin Jieyu reassured Immortal Lord Huizhao that she had handled the Demon Realm intruders, while Zhang Yuan found and refined the [Southern Flame-Bright Scarlet-Crimson Banner]. The chapter ended as Xiao Yuanjun spotted a streak of light in the sky above the sea.

• Immortal Lord Huizhao asked Qin Jieyu to find two Earth Immortals from the Demon Realm, and Qin Jieyu said she had already dealt with them.
• Zhang Yuan took the [Southern Flame-Bright Scarlet-Crimson Banner] from Jade Ravine Island and discovered a remnant soul hiding inside it.
• The remnant soul revealed that he was a direct descendant of the Hengyang Lu Clan and Lu Qingwu's younger brother, but Zhang Yuan erased him with the [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance].
• Zhang Yuan refined the banner and learned that its divine effect, [Light Wielding], combined slaughter and perception.
• After Zhang Yuan confirmed Immortal Lord Huizhao had left, Xiao Yuanjun spotted a streak of light in the sky.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun were teleported to Flying Immortal Peak, where Qin Jieyu claimed she had secured their safety and urged Zhang Yuan to stay by her side. Zhang Yuan thanked her cautiously, choosing to remain on the peak while he assessed the situation.

• Zhang Yuan realized a powerful teleportation radiance was pursuing the Golden Carriage and could not be resisted, then it carried him and Xiao Yuanjun away.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun crashed onto Flying Immortal Peak, where Qin Jieyu was waiting alone.
• Qin Jieyu told Zhang Yuan that she was his master and had vouched for his safety, while Xiao Yuanjun insisted she was Zhang Yuan's first master.
• Qin Jieyu warned Zhang Yuan not to leave Flying Immortal Peak because Huizhao and Jiang Xinyi would capture him if he did.
• Zhang Yuan thanked Qin Jieyu for saving them and decided to avoid conflict, while Qin Jieyu urged him to call her Master or Second Master.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun returned to Flying Immortal Peak, where Qin Jieyu intended to keep Zhang Yuan under her watch. They planned to escape the Azure Nether Immortal Sect by overcoming Qin Jieyu’s surveillance and gathering enough sword qi to cut through the teleportation light.

• Qin Jieyu told Zhang Yuan that staying on Flying Immortal Peak and behaving would repay his debt of gratitude, and Zhang Yuan retreated to the wooden house with Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun sealed the room against outside observation and discussed how to escape the sect despite Qin Jieyu’s surveillance and the threat from the Immortal Lords.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that her second mystic wonder, [myriad forms transformation], could rewrite ordinary rules and might counter Qin Jieyu’s surveillance, though it could not affect the teleportation light.
• Xiao Yuanjun replaced Qin Jieyu’s bedding with her own, while Zhang Yuan began refining sword qi to build enough power to cut through the teleportation light.

Qin Jieyu brought Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to Main Peak, where they learned that several sects planned to use an assault on a Demon Realm stronghold as a trial for their younger disciples. As the group prepared to head into Outer Chaos, Xiao Yuanjun recognized a True Disciple whose fire she had stolen, while someone in the hall fixed an intense gaze on Zhang Yuan.

• Qin Jieyu explained that she had taken Zhang Yuan as her disciple after seeing him helpless and alone, then brought him and Xiao Yuanjun to Main Peak.
• At the summit hall, Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun joined sect leaders, elders, and disciples gathered for a meeting.
• Wenzhenzi announced that the elders would fight the Demon Realm’s Earth Immortals while the disciples faced its Human Immortals, and the visiting sects agreed.
• Zhang Yuan learned that the sects planned to turn their attack on a Demon Realm stronghold into a trial for their younger disciples.
• Xiao Yuanjun recognized a Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect True Disciple whose ding fire she had stolen and sensed someone staring fervently at Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan joined an expedition to a Demon Realm outpost, where Jiang Xinyi’s strange feelings toward him complicated his plans to stay unnoticed. The group entered the outpost’s Microcosm, where a vast blood-red formation suddenly appeared.

• Xiao Yuanjun learned that Zhang Yuan had killed Jiang Xinyi’s newly accepted disciple, and Wenzhenzi asked whether Zhang Yuan would join the expedition.
• Qin Jieyu let Zhang Yuan go, and Jiang Xinyi transported the expedition party into the Outer Chaos.
• Zhang Yuan used [Person Viewing] on Jiang Xinyi and saw emotional tags that puzzled him, while Jiang Xinyi struggled with her attraction to him and considered abducting him.
• Jiang Xinyi led the party to a Demon Realm outpost inside a Microcosm and broke through its barrier to enter.
• The cultivators followed Jiang Xinyi into the Microcosm, where a blood-red formation appeared and spread across it.

After the Bloodlight Grand Formation suppressed the invading sects’ cultivation, Zhang Yuan remained powerful enough to repel an ambush and kill a Hengyang Lu Clan disciple. He urged the stunned survivors to scatter before the clan could trap them all.

• The Bloodlight Grand Formation suppressed the cultivators’ realms, while Zhang Yuan’s Sha Ingestion abilities were restricted to Qi Refining level.
• A black-robed Hengyang Lu Clan disciple ambushed the group with arrows, and Zhang Yuan destroyed the attack with the [Southern Flame-Bright Scarlet-Crimson Banner].
• The attacker recognized the banner and questioned Zhang Yuan about Ancestor Qingzhou, then confirmed his connection to Lu Qingwu’s lineage.
• Zhang Yuan used three Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures to immobilize and burn the disciple, then extinguished his soul with [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi].
• Zhang Yuan told the survivors to scatter and flee so the Hengyang Lu Clan could not capture them all.

Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Jiang Le'an set out to destroy the Bloodlight Grand Formation, and Su Ruo joined them after paying Xiao Yuanjun with her Spatial Spirit Ring. The group headed straight for the Demonic Cultivators' main camp, leaving Su Ruo anxious about the danger ahead.

• After Zhang Yuan killed the young man in black, he and Xiao Yuanjun focused on the Five-Skandha Wutu and set out toward the formation core.
• Zhang Yuan told Jiang Le'an that he would destroy the grand formation to free their suppressed fellow disciples, and Jiang Le'an joined him.
• Jiang Le'an found Su Ruo hiding in the bushes and cautiously questioned her before Xiao Yuanjun confirmed her identity.
• Xiao Yuanjun agreed to protect Su Ruo in exchange for payment, and Su Ruo handed over her Spatial Spirit Ring, which Zhang Yuan inspected.
• Su Ruo realized the group was heading for the Demonic Cultivators' main camp but resigned herself to following them.

Jiang Xinyi fought three Hengyang Lu Clan Celestial Persons while Wenzhenzi and the others searched for the formation’s anchors. Lu Fangxuan revealed the clan’s plan involving Deng Bai, and Jiang Xinyi warned that her junior martial uncle was nearby as Lu Fangxuan challenged him to appear.

• Jiang Xinyi held her own against Lu Fangxuan, Lu Hanshan, and Lu Lingyun despite their numbers and the formation’s suppression.
• Jiang Xinyi sent Wenzhenzi and the others to find the formation’s anchors, while the three Hengyang Lu Clan Celestial Persons let them leave.
• Lu Fangxuan explained that the formation’s anchors were hidden and difficult to destroy, then described how the clan’s ancestor had erased Deng Bai’s karma to make him a spy.
• Lu Fangxuan asked how Jiang Xinyi had uncovered Deng Bai, and she revealed that her junior martial uncle had killed him.
• Jiang Xinyi warned Lu Fangxuan that her junior martial uncle was in the small world and would destroy them, but Lu Fangxuan dismissed the threat and demanded to see him.

Zhang Yuan and his companions entered a secluded Hengyang Lu Clan courtyard, where he swiftly defeated its guards and killed Lu Baoshen after the cultivator tried to flee. They continued toward the Wu Earth, with Zhang Yuan’s preparations proving decisive against the clan’s deceptive escape attempt.

• Zhang Yuan killed the gatekeeper with his Life-Bound Flying Sword and explained to Su Ruo that he was half a Sword Cultivator.
• Zhang Yuan overwhelmed three Hengyang Lu Clan guards with divine abilities, treasures, and immortal domains, leaving them badly injured.
• Lu Baoshen feigned a desperate breakthrough, consumed his companions’ qi-blood, and fled the courtyard at great speed.
• Zhang Yuan revealed that he had prepared concealed sword qi, which pierced Lu Baoshen and destroyed his body and soul.

Zhang Yuan destroyed the cultivation-suppressing formation and confronted Lu Fangxuan, demanding more rare materials before attacking him and his companions. The chapter left Lu Fangxuan trapped beneath Zhang Yuan’s Five-Direction Banners and convinced that he faced a demonic rogue cultivator.

• Zhang Yuan devoured the conceptual images of five strands of heavenly gang and earthly sha with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword] and stored the unclaimed Wu Earth in his Dao Domain.
• The formation collapsed, restoring the cultivators’ powers, and Zhang Yuan concealed his appearance before flying toward Jiang Xinyi and her opponents.
• Lu Fangxuan realized the formation had fallen and prepared to retreat, but Zhang Yuan struck him and his two companions with Three-Colored Qi Light.
• Zhang Yuan demanded another strand of rare essence from Lu Fangxuan, then attacked him and his companions with three Five-Direction Banners when Lu Fangxuan offered pre-heaven artifact treasures instead.

Zhang Yuan discovered that killing Deng Bai had bound him to Jiang Xinyi through a tribulation-of-love karmic thread, which he severed before others noticed their embrace. He joined Jiang Xinyi and the Azure Nether Immortal Sect in defeating the three Demon Realm Earth Immortals, leaving Lu Fangxuan as the sole surviving enemy.

• Jiang Xinyi recognized Zhang Yuan as her Junior Martial Uncle and, under the influence of their karmic bond, pulled him into her arms.
• Zhang Yuan severed the marriage-bond thread between them with sword qi, and Jiang Xinyi returned to her senses before Wenzhenzi and the others arrived.
• Zhang Yuan introduced himself as [Return to True] and urged Wenzhenzi and the others to attack Lu Fangxuan and his companions.
• Jiang Xinyi and the others overwhelmed the three Earth Immortals, and Jiang Xinyi slew the two late celestial person cultivators.
• Lu Fangxuan remained alone and blamed Zhang Yuan for his defeat, calling him a traitor to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.

Zhang Yuan tried to stop Lu Fangxuan from summoning the Hengyang Lu Clan patriarch, but the Great Immortal Lord’s Incarnation arrived and overwhelmed the group. The patriarch recognized Zhang Yuan and, despite briefly considering recruiting him, attacked him to protect the clan’s plans.

• Zhang Yuan used Heaven’s Sight and learned that Lu Fangxuan’s black talisman would summon the patriarch, whose power could gravely injure the group.
• Zhang Yuan unleashed his treasures and Sword Qi at Lu Fangxuan, but Lu Fangxuan activated the talisman and called for the patriarch’s help.
• The patriarch’s Incarnation appeared, suppressed Zhang Yuan’s attacks, and destroyed the Sword Qi aimed at Lu Fangxuan.
• Lu Fangxuan accused Zhang Yuan of ruining the Hengyang Lu Clan’s scheme, and the patriarch recognized Zhang Yuan as the person who had disrupted the clan’s plans before.
• Zhang Yuan asked to join the Hengyang Lu Clan, but the patriarch refused and sent a blood-red blast toward the group.

A manifestation of the Lu Clan's ancestor threatened Zhang Yuan and the others with a Great Immortal Lord's attack, but the Azure Nether Immortal Sect's Immortal Artifact appeared to save them. The Mysterious Court intercepted its strike, leaving the group exposed as the Lu Clan's ancestor unleashed his attack.

• The Lu Clan's ancestor gathered power in the chaos, and Wenzhenzi and the others feared they could not survive his Great Immortal Lord's attack.
• Xiao Yuanjun urged Zhang Yuan to take cover, but he insisted he could protect them with his Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasures.
• The Azure Nether Immortal Sect's Immortal Artifact streaked toward the chaos, and Wenzhenzi believed Qin Jieyu had come to their aid.
• A powerful light from the Mysterious Court collided with the Immortal Artifact's strike, blocking it and shocking Wenzhenzi's group.
• The Lu Clan's ancestor completed his attack, and a vast blood-red light filled everyone's vision.

The [Dark-Heaven World-Annihilating True Lord] broke through the chaos, retrieved Li Zhongshuang from the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm, and left the realm’s Immortal Lords intimidated. Afterward, the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect confronted the Mysterious Court, whose Great Immortal Lords admitted they had pledged allegiance to the Hengyang Lu Clan.

• Xiao Yuanjun noticed sun-moon mystic radiance pierce the bloodlight and destroy it before Zhang Yuan could act.
• The [Dark-Heaven World-Annihilating True Lord] announced a search for a junior of the clan, and the three Great Immortal Lords agreed not to object.
• Guiding Divine Light carried Li Zhongshuang from East Prosperity Town out of the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm ahead of Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Immortal Lord Huizhao asked who had intervened, and the Heaven-Cutting Immortal Sect’s ancestor warned him that the visitor was the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm’s Deputy Sovereign of Heaven and Earth.
• [Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu] demanded an explanation from the Mysterious Court, and [Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui] and [Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa] revealed their allegiance to the Hengyang Lu Clan.

The Mysterious Court learned that Qin Jieyu was attacking its sect and abandoned its planned cooperation with the Hengyang Lu Clan to rush back. Zhang Yuan escaped the Outer Chaos with Xiao Yuanjun and headed toward the South Sea Region after they spotted strange treasure light around Sky Mountain.

• The Mysterious Court chose to cooperate with the Hengyang Lu Clan, but Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu warned that their demonic origins made the alliance dangerous.
• A Mysterious Court Immortal Lord reported that Qin Jieyu had destroyed affiliated islands and threatened to flatten the South Sea Region, prompting Xuancong Chuirui and Youhuang Miefa to hurry back to defend their sect.
• The Hengyang Lu Clan ancestor withdrew with Lu Fangxuan when the Sun-Moon Mystic Radiance destroyed the bloody light, while Zhang Yuan realized Li Zhongshuang had been taken away and his Curse-Killing threat was gone.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun departed the Outer Chaos, and Zhang Yuan told her to choose where they would go next.
• Xiao Yuanjun spotted brilliant treasure light around Sky Mountain in the South Sea Region, and Zhang Yuan decided they should investigate.

Qin Jieyu attacked the Mysterious Court after learning that her disciple had died, and threatened to destroy the South Sea Region and sacrifice her Immortal Artifact. As she unleashed another strike against the Mysterious Court’s Great Immortal Lords, an unknown voice called for her to wait.

• Qin Jieyu summoned the Light-Tracing Green Lotus Hairpin and struck Xuan Zu Island with treasure light.
• A barrier from Sky Mountain blocked the blow, and Immortal Lord Xuanc Congchuairui and Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa appeared to defend the Mysterious Court.
• Qin Jieyu vowed to make her Immortal Artifact self-destruct and kill the two Great Immortal Lords alongside her disciple.
• Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu tried to calm Qin Jieyu, but she ordered the Great Immortal Lords to die and attacked them.
• Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu fled as Xuanc Congchuairui and Youhuang Miefa raised a barrier around Xuan Zu Island.
• A voice called out, “Elder Qin, wait!”

Zhang Yuan arrived near Sky Mountain as Qin Jieyu attacked the Mysterious Court, and she stopped her Immortal Artifact’s strike when she heard his voice. The Mysterious Court’s Immortal Lords seized Zhang Yuan and, after learning he was Qin Jieyu’s disciple, tried to smooth over their conflict with an offer of compensation.

• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun approached Sky Mountain in the Golden Carriage and saw Qin Jieyu attacking the Mysterious Court.
• Zhang Yuan called out to Qin Jieyu to avoid being caught in her attack, and she withdrew the power of the [Light-Tracing Green Lotus Hairpin].
• Zhang Yuan tried to leave, but [Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui] and [Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa] immobilized him and transported him to Qin Jieyu.
• Qin Jieyu examined Zhang Yuan, reassured herself that he was unharmed, and told him not to leave her side again.
• [Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui] and [Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa] realized Zhang Yuan was Qin Jieyu’s disciple and offered compensation to settle the matter.

Zhang Yuan accepted compensation from the Mysterious Court after Qin Jieyu threatened it, then asked for Sky Mountain before deciding to seek a way to repair his spiritual root instead. The Mysterious Court’s Great Immortal Lords refused to surrender their ancestral mountain, and Zhang Yuan’s new request left them to consider whether they could restore his Outer Dao aptitude.

• Qin Jieyu asked Zhang Yuan whether to accept compensation from the Mysterious Court, and he agreed.
• Qin Jieyu freed Zhang Yuan, who asked for Sky Mountain as compensation.
• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui refused to give up Sky Mountain, explaining that it was the Mysterious Court’s ancestral mountain.
• Zhang Yuan withdrew his demand for Sky Mountain and asked whether the Mysterious Court had anything that could repair his spiritual root.

Zhang Yuan accepted the Mysterious Court’s spirit-root-rebuilding secret art and left for the Azure Nether Immortal Sect with Qin Jieyu and Xiao Yuanjun. After they departed, Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui arranged to have Zhang Yuan cursed and killed, and Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper appeared in person.

• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui gave Zhang Yuan the Form and Spirit Cultivation Method instead of promising the resources to restore his spirit root.
• Qin Jieyu summoned her hairpin, boarded Zhang Yuan’s Golden Carriage, and left Xuan Zu Island with Xiao Yuanjun for the Azure Nether Immortal Sect.
• Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa suspected Zhang Yuan had recognized Sky Mountain’s secret, but Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui ordered him eliminated to prevent future trouble.
• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui proposed that the Hengyang Lu Clan curse-kill Zhang Yuan before Mysterious Court operatives finished him.
• Lu Qisong, known as Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper, emerged from the void and announced that he was already there.

Lu Qisong learned that Lu Qingwu’s death had ruined the Nether Bureau’s scheme and joined Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui and Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa in targeting Zhang Yuan. As Zhang Yuan suspected Sky Mountain concealed a golden position, he realized the Mysterious Court might be preparing a Curse-Killing attack against him.

• Lu Qisong told Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui and Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa that Lu Qingwu was dead and the Nether Bureau’s scheme had failed.
• Lu Qisong showed them Lu Qingwu’s portrait of Zhang Yuan, and the two Immortal Lords recognized him as a possible pawn of a Demon Realm True Lord.
• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui proposed that Lu Qisong use a Curse-Killing art on Zhang Yuan before an Azure Nether Immortal Sect operative finished him off.
• In the Golden Carriage, Zhang Yuan reasoned that Sky Mountain might be the outward manifestation of an immortal golden position and wondered whether a True Lord had guided him to it.
• Zhang Yuan suspected the Mysterious Court had enlisted Lu Qisong to curse him and opened the Heaven’s Sight panel after sensing danger.

Zhang Yuan consulted [Heaven's Sight] and told Qin Jieyu about the Hengyang Lu Clan branch's curse-killing, allowing her to neutralize it with her hairpin. He then examined her life-bound treasure and showed her [Primordial Form-Converging], which she identified as a crude artifact made by the Eastern Ya Cui Clan's True Lord [Qiming].

• Zhang Yuan chose the future in which he told Qin Jieyu about the curse-killing rather than risk being gravely wounded.
• Xiao Yuanjun offered to bear the curse-killing for Zhang Yuan, but he declined and explained that it was the Hengyang Lu Clan branch's 'Karmic Debt Life-Repayment Method.'
• Qin Jieyu used her [Light-Tracing Green Lotus Hairpin] to protect Zhang Yuan and send the curse back to its source.
• Zhang Yuan decided to stay on Flying Immortal Peak and refine his Wu Earth there.
• Qin Jieyu showed Zhang Yuan her hairpin, then asked to see his life-bound flying sword, [Primordial Form-Converging].
• Qin Jieyu examined the mystic pearls and recognized that [Qiming] had made the treasure using several pre-heaven artifact treasures and [Grand White Edge].

Zhang Yuan learned that Qin Jieyu had fought the Eastern Ya Cui Clan's True Lord, who cut away Qin Jieyu's cultivation and left her mortal. Meanwhile, Lu Qisong took resources from the Mysterious Court in exchange for cursing Zhang Yuan into a weakened state, though he had also discovered that his clan's main branch had abandoned the Demonic Dao and would no longer support him.

• Zhang Yuan asked Qin Jieyu about the Eastern Ya Cui Clan's True Lord, and Qin Jieyu said she had challenged her to a Dao Debate over her reputation in the Sword Dao.
• Qin Jieyu said the True Lord, Qiming, defeated her with Grand White Edge and stripped away her Qi Refining Dao cultivation, leaving her dependent on Zhang Yuan.
• Qin Jieyu changed the subject by promising to prepare a medicinal bath for Zhang Yuan's spiritual-root restoration when they returned to the sect.
• Xuancong Chuirui asked Lu Qisong what resources he needed to curse Zhang Yuan, and Lu Qisong falsely claimed the technique would drain his vitality.
• Xuancong Chuirui gave Lu Qisong a pile of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and Lu Qisong agreed to curse Zhang Yuan into a gravely wounded state.
• Lu Qisong recalled learning that the Hengyang Lu Clan's main branch had abandoned the Demonic Dao and planned to eliminate his branch, leaving him to gather resources for his disciples himself.

Lu Qisong's curse against Zhang Yuan backfired when Zhang Yuan struck him through their karmic connection, though Lu Qisong hid the truth from the Mysterious Court. Zhang Yuan returned safely to the Azure Nether Immortal Sect, where Wenzhenzi and Jiang Xinyi greeted him.

• Lu Qisong used a karmic curse talisman to target Zhang Yuan, then suddenly spat blood after Zhang Yuan counterattacked through their karmic connection.
• Lu Qisong pretended the curse would leave Zhang Yuan near death and departed after recovering with a Blood Pill.
• Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa and Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui doubted Lu Qisong's account, so Xuancong arranged for an Immortal Lord and True Disciples to observe Zhang Yuan and try to kill him.
• Zhang Yuan crossed the sea in the Golden Carriage Luan Chariot and returned to Flying Immortal Peak unharmed.
• Wenzhenzi welcomed Zhang Yuan back, and Jiang Xinyi called him little martial uncle because he had become the Supreme Elder's disciple.

Jiang Xinyi invited Zhang Yuan to Gorgeous Glory Peak to learn a cultivation technique, but Qin Jieyu and Xiao Yuanjun warned him against going. Zhang Yuan refined Wu Earth and used it to stabilize his Dao domain, then advanced to the celestial mid-stage and prepared to choose a new talent.

• Jiang Xinyi invited Zhang Yuan to Gorgeous Glory Peak to study a cultivation technique, but he decided to focus on refining Wu Earth instead.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that Wu Earth could balance Zhang Yuan's Dao domain and assured him that refining it was safe.
• Zhang Yuan refined Wu Earth, expanding the land and Central Mountain in his Dao domain, then placed Ding fire in lamps inside the Immortal Palace.
• Zhang Yuan's Dao domain surged in power, and he broke through to the celestial mid-stage.
• Zhang Yuan opened the Talent Panel and tapped the plus sign to choose his second Celestial Person talent.