Recaps

Zhang Yuan weighed three powerful Foundation Establishment talents against the dangers of attracting the Lords of Heaven and Earth. He rejected the first two and settled on [Ancestor of Earth Immortals], whose suppression could stack with [First Under Heaven, Past and Present].

• Zhang Yuan examined [Heaven and Earth as the Chessboard] and rejected it because controlling pieces could let True Lords trace karma back to him.
• Zhang Yuan considered [Heaven Rewards Diligence] but rejected it because helping others would entangle him in karma and draw the Lords of Heaven and Earth's attention.
• Zhang Yuan examined [Ancestor of Earth Immortals] and realized its suppression could stack with [First Under Heaven, Past and Present] for a combined eighty percent.
• Zhang Yuan favored [Ancestor of Earth Immortals] for its potential to overwhelm even powerful cultivators once he refined the required aspects.

Zhang Yuan chose [Ancestor of Earth Immortals], strengthening his abilities as he advanced to the Celestial mid-stage without difficulty. After sharing a meal with Qin Jieyu and Xiao Yuanjun, the story shifted to Immortal Lord Lingxiang, who began addressing three Mysterious Court True Disciples at the Azure Nether Immortal Sect.

• Zhang Yuan selected [Ancestor of Earth Immortals], which strengthened his Dao Domain and suppressed Celestials who had refined certain strands of the Five Skandhas and Six Qi.
• Zhang Yuan left his Dao Domain and assured Qin Jieyu and Xiao Yuanjun that his breakthrough had been safe.
• Qin Jieyu invited Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to eat spirit food at her wooden house.
• Immortal Lord Lingxiang stayed in a poor courtyard at the Azure Nether Immortal Sect after presenting Wenzhenzi with an explanation and compensation.
• Immortal Lord Lingxiang asked the three Mysterious Court True Disciples whether they understood why they had come.

Immortal Lord Lingxiang sent Ye Guhong, Shi Erniu, and Xu Lingyin to kill a supposedly gravely wounded demon fiend on Flying Immortal Peak while he drew the Azure Nether Immortal Sect’s elders into a fight. Zhang Yuan suspected the demon-hunting mission was a cover for an attempt on his life and left the house to confront those responsible.

• Immortal Lord Lingxiang told Ye Guhong, Shi Erniu, and Xu Lingyin that their true mission was to kill a demon fiend hiding at the Azure Nether Immortal Sect, allegedly weakened by a Grand Supreme Ancestor’s secret art.
• Immortal Lord Lingxiang challenged Jiang Xinyi and destroyed Gorgeous Glory Peak with a hand of immortal essence, drawing the sect’s senior figures’ attention.
• Zhang Yuan watched the confrontation from Flying Immortal Peak as Qin Jieyu identified Immortal Lord Lingxiang as a Mysterious Court Immortal Lord.
• Zhang Yuan suspected the Mysterious Court had come to kill him while he was believed to be gravely wounded, and he left Qin Jieyu and Xiao Yuanjun to go out.

Zhang Yuan used his celestial perception to find the hidden operatives surrounding Flying Immortal Peak and began eliminating them. After killing Ding Ge without alerting the others, he headed toward a peak Nascent Soul Realm cultivator while Ye Guhong’s group mistakenly believed Zhang Yuan had returned inside.

• Zhang Yuan surveyed the area around Flying Immortal Peak and identified ten Azure Nether Immortal Sect Nascent Soul Realm operatives and three peak Golden Core Realm cultivators.
• Zhang Yuan used Void Evasion to appear beside Ding Ge as he tried to send a voice transmission about Zhang Yuan’s disappearance.
• Ding Ge attempted to attack Zhang Yuan, but Zhang Yuan’s Three-Colored Qi Light and Iron Chain stopped him and annihilated him.
• Zhang Yuan erased the karma of Ding Ge’s death and rode golden light toward a peak Nascent Soul Realm operative.
• Ye Guhong, Shi Erniu, and three Ye Family hidden operatives dismissed Ding Lei’s report and assumed Zhang Yuan had gone back inside.

Zhang Yuan confronted Shi Erniu and Ye Guhong’s hidden operatives after Ye Guhong abandoned them, then killed them and pursued Ye Guhong. Ye Guhong fled and encountered Xu Lingyin, who was secretly trying to compete for the Mysterious Court Daoist Heir position.

• Ye Guhong left Shi Erniu and three Nascent Soul Realm hidden operatives behind, overruling their objections and ordering them to proceed without him.
• Zhang Yuan arrived and asked where Ye Guhong was, and Shi Erniu realized Ye Guhong had used them as a shield.
• Zhang Yuan restrained and killed the three hidden operatives, then killed Shi Erniu and pursued Ye Guhong on golden light.
• Ye Guhong saw Zhang Yuan arrive at the scene and fled faster, suspecting someone in the sect had plotted against him.
• Ye Guhong stopped after spotting Xu Lingyin and called out to her, while Xu Lingyin questioned why he had returned.

Ye Guhong tried to escape the Demon Fiend by turning Xu Lingyin against Shi Erniu, but Xu Lingyin saw through his deception and the two fought while fleeing. Zhang Yuan caught up with them, and Ye Guhong offered to betray the Ye Family to save his life.

• Ye Guhong told Xu Lingyin that Shi Erniu had turned his Hidden Operative against him and urged her to hurry to Flying Immortal Peak.
• Xu Lingyin ignored Ye Guhong’s bait and followed him with the female late Nascent Soul realm cultivator, then Ye Guhong struck them with a Life-Saving Talisman.
• Xu Lingyin retaliated with a talisman that wounded Ye Guhong, and the two continued attacking each other until the female cultivator stopped them.
• Zhang Yuan arrived after killing Shi Erniu and his three companions, leaving Ye Guhong shaken by his uninjured appearance.
• Ye Guhong begged Zhang Yuan to spare him and offered to hand over the Ye Family and help the Demon Realm swallow half the Mysterious Court.

Zhang Yuan foiled Ye Guhong’s attempts to bargain and dragged the fleeing Xu Lingyin back, but Immortal Lord Lingxiang arrived to save her. Zhang Yuan recognized that the Mysterious Court had engineered the confrontation to force the Azure Nether Immortal Sect against him, and he refused to release Xu Lingyin.

• Ye Guhong tried to save himself by offering Zhang Yuan his family’s resources and then Ye Yun, but Zhang Yuan rejected him and prepared to strike.
• Ye Guhong blocked Zhang Yuan’s attack with a powerful talisman and warned him that Xu Lingyin was escaping.
• Zhang Yuan used his celestial person status to seize Xu Lingyin from afar and began breaking through her protections to kill her.
• Immortal Lord Lingxiang appeared and shielded Xu Lingyin, prompting Zhang Yuan to realize the Mysterious Court’s plan was designed to make the sect condemn him whichever choice he made.
• Immortal Lord Lingxiang retrieved Ye Guhong and the female Nascent Soul cultivator, but Xu Lingyin remained trapped in Zhang Yuan’s grasp.
• Zhang Yuan concealed his appearance and refused to release Xu Lingyin as Immortal Lord Lingxiang warned that defying the sect would bring his death.

Jiang Xinyi rescued Xu Lingyin and announced that she would take Zhang Yuan back to Gorgeous Glory Peak for interrogation, despite Immortal Lord Lingxiang's demand that he be killed. Zhang Yuan escaped using a body of his past, and Jiang Xinyi pursued him.

• Jiang Xinyi knocked Zhang Yuan's hand away and sent Xu Lingyin back to Immortal Lord Lingxiang.
• Immortal Lord Lingxiang accused Zhang Yuan of killing disciples and demanded that Jiang Xinyi help kill him, but she refused and threatened Lingxiang when he objected to her plan to interrogate Zhang Yuan.
• Jiang Xinyi reached for Zhang Yuan, but he vanished after using Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying while his true body fled in golden light.
• Jiang Xinyi pursued Zhang Yuan as he raced toward the Azure Nether Sect's boundary.
• Wenzhenzi refused Huang Boyong's suggestion to pursue Zhang Yuan, saying the sect could neither catch nor safely defeat him.

After fleeing the Azure Nether Immortal Sect, Zhang Yuan struggled to choose a safe destination and was confronted by Jiang Xinyi, who wanted him to help her overcome her tribulation of love. He tried to strike her when he learned she planned to kill him, but his Master appeared and stopped his sword.

• Zhang Yuan hid near the Azure Nether Immortal Sect and decided to travel rather than return to Flying Immortal Peak.
• Jiang Xinyi appeared in Zhang Yuan’s carriage and asked whether she or Qin Jieyu was more beautiful.
• Zhang Yuan named Li Huixi instead, briefly easing Jiang Xinyi’s emotional turmoil before she caught his hand.
• Jiang Xinyi explained that she would overcome her tribulation of love by falling in love with Zhang Yuan and then killing him.
• Zhang Yuan broke free and swung his sword at Jiang Xinyi, but his Master teleported in and caught the blade.

Zhang Yuan reunited with Qin Jieyu and Jiang Xinyi after his Sword Qi severed the karma of Jiang Xinyi’s Tribulation of Love, then warned them that the Mysterious Court was still targeting him. He summoned Xiao Yuanjun to help investigate the reason, but she arrived believing he was being held hostage by the two women.

• Qin Jieyu caught Zhang Yuan’s [Primordial Form-Converging Sword] with her bare hand, and Zhang Yuan severed Jiang Xinyi’s Tribulation of Love karma again.
• Qin Jieyu and Jiang Xinyi argued over whether Jiang Xinyi should leave the carriage, while Zhang Yuan redirected them by explaining that the Mysterious Court had tried to kill him.
• Jiang Xinyi warned that the Mysterious Court would keep pursuing Zhang Yuan until it was destroyed, and Qin Jieyu asked why it wanted him dead.
• Zhang Yuan used [Myriad Coexistence] to summon Xiao Yuanjun so they could investigate the Mysterious Court’s motives together.
• Xiao Yuanjun arrived with a steamed bun, mistook Qin Jieyu and Jiang Xinyi’s closeness to Zhang Yuan for a hostage situation, and pulled them away before taking the seat beside him.

Zhang Yuan and his companions discussed the Mysterious Court’s plan to cultivate a Golden Core True Lord through the golden position linked to Sky Mountain. Zhang Yuan hoped to learn the position’s true name and attain it first, but Xiao Yuanjun explained that its concealment made the name impossible to guess for now and suggested waiting for the Chaos Calamity.

• Zhang Yuan told Xiao Yuanjun that the Mysterious Court had ambushed him, and he suspected its Great Immortal Lords planned to secretly cultivate a Golden Core True Lord.
• Qin Jieyu explained that Great Immortal Lords could not attain golden positions themselves, so the Mysterious Court would need to raise a separate candidate.
• Zhang Yuan recalled that Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin had escaped, leaving potential future threats after he killed Shi Erniu.
• Xiao Yuanjun reasoned that the Mysterious Court likely did not know the golden position’s true name, which was necessary to attain it.
• Zhang Yuan proposed learning the name first, but Xiao Yuanjun said divine concealment made it nearly impossible to discover without knowing the position’s conceptual image.
• Xiao Yuanjun suggested that the hidden golden position might emerge during the Chaos Calamity, giving them a chance to investigate it then.

After Zhang Yuan escaped, the Mysterious Court elevated Xu Lingyin and Ye Guhong to Daoist Heir and Dao Maiden, then the pair returned to their rivalry. Ye Guhong visited his second sister, Ye Zhenshu, and threatened her with the false claim that Zhang Yuan wanted her as his concubine.

• Immortal Lord Lingxiang reported Zhang Yuan's escape to Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui and Immortal Lord Youhuang Miefa, who concluded that a hidden power backed Zhang Yuan and warned against setting another death trap.
• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui named Xu Lingyin the Mysterious Court Dao Maiden and Ye Guhong the Mysterious Court Daoist Heir, offering them resources and a chance to cultivate the Ancient Immortal Dao.
• Outside the hall, Xu Lingyin and Ye Guhong exchanged hostile remarks, and Ye Guhong plotted to make Xu Lingyin and his second sister enemies of Zhang Yuan.
• Ye Guhong went to Ye Zhenshu's courtyard, where she demanded most of his new resources under their old arrangement.
• Ye Guhong refused, demanded seventy percent of the resources distributed to him, and claimed Zhang Yuan had threatened to take Ye Zhenshu as his concubine and destroy the Ye Family.

Ye Zhenshu ordered [Hu Ying] to investigate and kill the Demon Realm cultivator Ye Guhong had warned her about, while [Hu Ying] also attacked Ye Guhong on her orders. Ye Guhong escaped the black wind strike and raced toward Xu Lingyin’s cave abode, planning to use her death to turn the Mysterious Court against Ye Zhenshu’s protector.

• Ye Zhenshu dismissed Ye Guhong’s warning about Zhang Yuan, and Ye Guhong left after resolving to deal with her through careful planning.
• [Hu Ying] appeared before Ye Zhenshu and offered to kill Ye Guhong, so she ordered it to investigate the Demon Realm cultivator and kill him if he threatened her.
• [Hu Ying] left to pursue Ye Guhong, and Ye Zhenshu recalled how the powerful, simple-minded being had become her trusted confidant.
• A black wind hand attacked Ye Guhong as he walked to his cave abode, and he used a talisman to hold it back before fleeing.
• Ye Guhong concluded that Ye Zhenshu had a Tribulation Transcendence Realm protector and changed course toward Xu Lingyin’s cave abode, intending to get the protector killed by provoking the Mysterious Court.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun set out to infiltrate the Mysterious Court and kill Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin. Near Xuan Zu Island, they encounter the two fleeing a mysterious black wind, leaving Zhang Yuan’s revenge within reach.

• Zhang Yuan decided the Mysterious Court’s Great Immortal Lords were not constantly watching their territory and planned to enter unseen to kill Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin.
• Xiao Yuanjun agreed to accompany Zhang Yuan, while Qin Jieyu returned to the peak to watch through her Immortal Artifact and stand ready to help.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun disguised themselves as local cultivators and flew toward Xuan Zu Island, where Zhang Yuan considered investigating Sky Mountain if it proved safe.
• Near Xuan Zu Island, Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun spotted an island beset by strange black winds and decided to investigate.
• The island exploded, and Xu Lingyin and the wounded Ye Guhong fled from the black wind as Xu angrily blamed Ye for their predicament.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun encountered Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin as they fled from a black conceptual figure sent by Ye Zhenshu. After the figure trapped them and Zhang Yuan attacked it, Xiao Yuanjun revealed its true form.

• Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin fled Black Wind, who destroyed the island where they had sought refuge, and ran into Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan chose not to help the pair, but [Hu Ying] recognized him as a target and trapped all four in black hurricanes.
• [Hu Ying] claimed to be a reincarnated True Lord sent to kill Zhang Yuan, while Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin each tried to persuade Zhang Yuan to help them.
• Zhang Yuan attacked [Hu Ying] with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword], but the strike passed through the figure without harming it.
• Xiao Yuanjun used [Dusk Veil] and [Myriad Forms Transformation] to reveal the black figure's true form: a hand.

Zhang Yuan recognized Hu Ying as a living divine ability descended from True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns and realized Hu Ying’s remaining power would fade if spent. As Zhang Yuan defended himself and Xiao Yuanjun, Hu Ying abandoned attacking them and turned on Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin.

• Zhang Yuan recognized Hu Ying’s giant palm as the divine ability True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns had unleashed and explained Hu Ying’s origin to Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan concluded Hu Ying’s conceptual image would run out and used his Three Flags and Primordial Form-Converging to hold Hu Ying off.
• Hu Ying revealed a blood-red maw, raged at Zhang Yuan and the others, and declared that they deserved to die.
• Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin begged Zhang Yuan for protection, but Zhang Yuan remained intent on eliminating them.
• Unable to break Zhang Yuan’s defenses, Hu Ying targeted Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin, sending a hurricane to shred them.

Zhang Yuan rescued Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin after True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts contacted him and promised a favor. As Zhang Yuan took them toward Xu Lingyin’s secluded cave, the Devil Lord discovered that Immortal Lord Cangyan Lianjie was secretly watching Zhang Yuan.

• Xu Lingyin revealed that she knew where the fourth Five-Direction Banner was, and Zhang Yuan shielded her and Ye Guhong from Hu Ying’s black wind after receiving a plea from True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts.
• True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts asked Zhang Yuan to take Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin into the Mysterious Court and promised him a strand of Gui Water in return.
• Zhang Yuan bound Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin, escaped in the Golden Carriage with Xiao Yuanjun, and chose Xu Lingyin’s remote cave abode as a place to go.
• True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts sensed a gaze on Zhang Yuan and identified its source as Immortal Lord Cangyan Lianjie’s Light-Tracing Green Lotus Hairpin.
• True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts decided to ask Zhang Yuan about his conflict with the Azure Nether Immortal Sect and Qin Jieyu, hoping reconciliation might be possible.

Zhang Yuan met with [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts], who explained that the mysterious [Hu Ying] may have been sent by a True Lord holding [Unimpeded Foot]. The True Lord urged Zhang Yuan to return to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm to handle urgent events, and Zhang Yuan asked whether leaving would mean giving up the Sky Mountain on Xuan Zu Island.

• Zhang Yuan repaired Xu Lingyin's damaged cave abode and brought the chained Ye Guhong and Xu Lingyin inside with Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan questioned [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] about his visit and refused to trust another supposed road to heaven.
• [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] explained that [Immortal Lord Cangyan Lianjie] was Elder Qin, and Zhang Yuan said he had no grudge against her.
• Zhang Yuan asked who had sent [Hu Ying], and [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] speculated that a holder of [Unimpeded Foot] could have entered the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm.
• [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] urged Zhang Yuan to return to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, and Zhang Yuan asked if that meant the True Lord would abandon the Sky Mountain.

Zhang Yuan weighed returning to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm and learned that [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] claimed Lu Rong could help him get there. After the True Lord vanished rather than offer the fourth Five-Direction Banner, Zhang Yuan questioned Xu Lingyin, who identified a possible banner in the hands of Immortal Lord Yinghuang’s True Disciple.

• Zhang Yuan suspected [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] had sent him to the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm to pursue Sky Mountain and considered returning to seek the five skandhas and six qi.
• [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] said Lu Rong had escaped prison and could be sacrificed to send Zhang Yuan back through the Nine Serenities Sect’s teleportation secret art.
• Zhang Yuan asked about the fourth Five-Direction Banner, but [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] extinguished the lamp and withdrew its divine sense instead of answering.
• Zhang Yuan cursed the True Lord and confronted Xu Lingyin, while Ye Guhong teasingly ordered her to attend Zhang Yuan in bed.
• Xu Lingyin told Zhang Yuan that she had seen Immortal Lord Yinghuang’s True Disciple use a powerful banner resembling his, and Zhang Yuan asked where the disciple was and about Immortal Lord Yinghuang.

Zhang Yuan visited Xue Lan after learning that he cultivated the Ancient Immortal Dao and possessed a powerful banner. Xue Lan refused Xu Lingyin’s demand to hand it over and revealed cultivation far beyond what she expected.

• Xu Lingyin told Zhang Yuan that Xue Lan possessed a banner and cultivated the Ancient Immortal Dao, prompting Zhang Yuan to visit him with Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan released Ye Guhong and flew with Xu Lingyin and Xiao Yuanjun toward Xue Lan’s residence at Ganyang Peak.
• Xue Lan, an undercover agent for the Lu Clan Branch, planned to infiltrate the Mysterious Court treasury while cultivating with his black banner.
• Xue Lan’s banner warned him of approaching visitors, and Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Xu Lingyin arrived at Ganyang Peak.
• Xu Lingyin asked Xue Lan to give her the banner, but he refused and threatened her with his peak Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun attacked Xue Lan, an undercover agent of a Hengyang Lu Clan branch, and discovered his Northern Profound-Devouring Nether Capital Banner could severely damage treasures. After Zhang Yuan revealed his identity as the Return to True Celestial Person, Xue Lan attacked again, but vanished when the current dispersed.

• Xiao Yuanjun used [Dusk Veil] and Zhang Yuan used [Yellow Springs Drink] to trap Xue Lan’s cultivation at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xue Lan accused Xu Lingyin of betraying the Mysterious Court and unleashed the [Northern Profound-Devouring Nether Capital Banner] against Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan countered the banner’s cold current with the [Southern Flame-Bright Scarlet-Crimson Banner], but his [Bright Yang Chengsheng Armor] was badly damaged.
• Xue Lan restored his late Purple Mansion Realm cultivation and asked whether Zhang Yuan’s group knew the Hengyang Lu Clan.
• Zhang Yuan identified himself as the Return to True Celestial Person, and Xue Lan recognized him from the clan’s wanted information.
• Xue Lan launched a stronger cold current, and Zhang Yuan sacrificed his armor to block it; when the current dispersed, Xue Lan had vanished.

Xue Lan fled toward the Mysterious Court treasury with Zhang Yuan following, while Ye Guhong warned the Mysterious Court ancestors that Zhang Yuan had infiltrated the sect. The ancestors sent three Immortal Lords to surround Zhang Yuan, setting up a confrontation as he pursued Xue Lan.

• Xue Lan fled through the Mysterious Court, and Zhang Yuan pursued the karmic trail in the Golden Carriage Luan Chariot.
• Xue Lan changed course toward the sect treasury, and Zhang Yuan decided to follow before looting it himself.
• Ye Guhong went to the Mysterious Court Hall and told the ancestors that Zhang Yuan was a demon infiltrator and Xu Lingyin had betrayed the sect.
• Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui ordered Immortal Lord Lingxiang and Immortal Lord Yinghuang to join Liu Jing in surrounding Zhang Yuan.
• Ye Guhong and Ye Zhenshu were dismissed, and Ye Guhong left believing he could expose Ye Zhenshu's ties to the Demon Realm later.

Xue Lan tried to escape the Mysterious Court through a teleportation formation, but Zhang Yuan captured and killed him before he could flee. Zhang Yuan then took the Mysterious Court's treasury and left nothing behind.

• Xue Lan killed the treasury guard and activated a one-way formation to the Nine Serenities Sect.
• Zhang Yuan appeared behind Xue Lan, bound him with [Myriad Coexistence], and took the [Northern Profound-Devouring Nether Capital Banner].
• Zhang Yuan tried to sever the banner's refining Karma with Sword Qi but failed, then placed it in his Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan killed Xue Lan with Azure Thunder from the [Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner].
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun swept the treasury's treasures, floor, walls, and lamps into their Dao Domains.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun were confronted by three Mysterious Court Immortal Lords after looting the sect treasury, and Zhang Yuan used Ye Guhong to expose the danger of Yinghuang’s attack. As Zhang Yuan fled with Xiao Yuanjun, a damaged teleportation formation activated and enveloped them.

• Zhang Yuan invited Xiao Yuanjun to visit his Dao Domain, and the two prepared to leave the emptied treasury hall.
• Immortal Lords Yinghuang, Lingxiang, and Liujing arrived, and Yinghuang attacked Zhang Yuan with a fire snake.
• Zhang Yuan pulled Ye Guhong into the fire snake’s path, and Yinghuang recalled the attack too late to prevent Ye Guhong from burning to ash.
• Zhang Yuan erased Ye Guhong’s remnant soul and fled with Xiao Yuanjun in the Golden Carriage as Yinghuang summoned flaming Chi Dragons.
• Xue Lan’s damaged teleportation formation activated and enveloped Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun instead of transporting the entire hall.

After Zhang Yuan left, True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts possessed Ye Xiangning and planned to use her identity to join the Mysterious Court. Ye Xiangning awakened in front of her uncle, while the Ye Family prepared to choose a new head after Ye Guhong’s death.

• The Mysterious Court’s Immortal Lords concealed Ye Guhong’s death by claiming the sect had defeated an invasion and that Ji Guang was one of their disciples.
• Ye Xiangning, possessed by True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts, decided to use her hidden origins to join the Mysterious Court.
• Ye Jichuan summoned Ye Xiangning to the ancestral hall, and she surprised him by acting and speaking like an ordinary person.
• Ye Jichuan celebrated Ye Guhong’s death and Ye Xiangning’s apparent recovery, hoping their branch would regain influence when the family chose a new head.
• Ye Xiangning resolved to strengthen her frail body, take control of the Ye Family, and then infiltrate the Mysterious Court.