Recaps

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun arrived at the Nine Serenities Sect in the Western Sea Region after True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts sent them through a teleportation formation. As they tried to slip out, two Nine Serenities Sect disciples ambushed them.

• Zhang Yuan suspected True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts had arranged his teleportation and identified their destination as the Nine Serenities Sect’s island.
• Zhang Yuan concealed his and Xiao Yuanjun’s auras, warned her about the Hengyang Lu Clan branch, and decided they should leave quietly.
• Zhang Yuan failed to contact Qin Jieyu and found that a Bloodlight Grand Formation allowed entry but prevented escape.
• Xiao Yuanjun used Myriad Forms Transformation to change the formation’s rules so it briefly allowed exit but not entry.
• As Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun tried to leave, a man and a woman in Nine Serenities Sect robes attacked them and demanded their possessions.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun killed Lu Qingqing and her companion after they attacked and harassed them, then discovered the pair’s Command Tokens contained Small Teleportation Formations. The tokens activated and forcibly transported Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to the center of the island.

• Lu Qingqing threatened Zhang Yuan and demanded that he become her lover, so Xiao Yuanjun crushed her with the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls.
• Lu Qingqing’s companion begged for mercy and tried to flatter Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, but Zhang Yuan killed him with Three-Colored Qi Light.
• Zhang Yuan collected the pair’s Command Tokens, and Xiao Yuanjun identified the markings as Small Teleportation Formations.
• The Command Tokens activated before Zhang Yuan could discard them, and their spatial power transported him and Xiao Yuanjun to the island’s center.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun infiltrated the Nine Serenities Sect’s ancient hall, which Zhang Yuan sensed was full of opportunities, and discovered it was the sect’s treasury. Though its contents were mostly low-grade, they stripped the hall bare and left the Nine Serenities Sect’s treasury as wealthy as the Mysterious Court’s.

• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun arrived among the Nine Serenities Sect cultivators and saw a vast Flesh Gate made from sacrificed cultivators.
• Zhang Yuan sensed numerous opportunities inside an ancient hall and silently agreed with Xiao Yuanjun to investigate it.
• The pair concealed themselves and slipped into the hall past the gathered cultivators and the tribulation transcendence realm elder.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun found that most of the treasury held low-grade resources, but decided to take everything anyway.
• They swept the treasury clean, taking Hengyang Lu Clan cultivation methods and Secret Arts and a Pre-Heaven True Treasure.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun looted the Nine Serenities Sect treasury just as Immortal Lord Xiangwang announced that the Hengyang Lu Clan branch would become the Nine Serenities Lu Clan and declare war on its former family. When Xiangwang discovered the empty treasury and confronted them, Zhang Yuan tried to buy time by asking about Lu Qingwu while Xiao Yuanjun prepared their escape.

• Zhang Yuan found a copied manuscript of the Karmic Debt Life-Repayment Method in the Nine Serenities Sect treasury, and he and Xiao Yuanjun carved boastful inscriptions into its hall.
• Immortal Lord Xiangwang announced that his branch had renamed itself the Nine Serenities Lu Clan and declared war on the Hengyang Lu Clan.
• Xiangwang urged the Nine Serenities Sect cultivators to fight in the Demon Realm for battle merit and rewards, then opened the treasury to them.
• Xiangwang found the treasury empty and spotted Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun inside, then threatened to kill them.
• Zhang Yuan asked Xiangwang whether he knew Lu Qingwu, while Xiao Yuanjun secretly altered the Bloodlight Grand Formation to prepare their escape.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun tried to escape the Bloodlight Grand Formation, but Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper cornered them and attacked. Qin Jieyu’s immortal artifact shielded them, and Zhang Yuan declared his loyalty to Elder Qin as Duo Ning prepared to fight through her protection.

• Zhang Yuan revealed that he and Lu Qingwu were enemies, then attacked Immortal Lord Xiangwang with concealed Sword Qi while fleeing with Xiao Yuanjun in the Golden Carriage.
• Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper erased the formation’s conceptual images, stopped the Golden Carriage, and confronted Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Duo Ning refused Zhang Yuan’s offer of allegiance and unleashed a Great Immortal Lord’s Divine Ability against the pair.
• Qin Jieyu’s immortal artifact broke through the Bloodlight Grand Formation and protected Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun from Duo Ning’s attack.
• Zhang Yuan declared his loyalty to Elder Qin, while Duo Ning recognized Qin Jieyu’s intervention and resolved to kill him anyway.

Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper attacked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, but Qin Jieyu intervened with her powerful Immortal Artifact. Zhang Yuan escaped toward the Flesh Gate to return to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, then resolved to strike back at the Nine Serenities Sect and the Nine Serenities Lu Clan before leaving.

• Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper unleashed his power across the Western Sea Region and attacked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Qin Jieyu’s Immortal Artifact pierced Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper, who healed himself by slaughtering nearby islanders and consuming a Blood Pill.
• Zhang Yuan took Xiao Yuanjun in the Golden Carriage and raced toward the Flesh Gate, but Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper trapped them with blood-baleful hands.
• Zhang Yuan used First Under Heaven, Past and Present and his defensive radiance, combined with Sword Qi, to break free from the blood-baleful hand.
• Qin Jieyu blocked Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper’s attack with defensive radiance, allowing Zhang Yuan to approach the Flesh Gate.
• Zhang Yuan decided to strike the Nine Serenities Sect and the Nine Serenities Lu Clan before escaping to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.

Zhang Yuan challenged the Nine Serenities Sect by the sword, then escaped to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm with Xiao Yuanjun while warning that a True Lord might have infiltrated the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm. Meanwhile, Ye Xiangning’s recovery drew concern from her uncle, and she went to meet the First Madam.

• Zhang Yuan struck Nine Serenities Island with his full strength while Qin Jieyu kept Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper from blocking the attack.
• Zhang Yuan called out to True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts, then escaped with Xiao Yuanjun through the gate to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
• Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper and other Immortal Lords considered Zhang Yuan’s warning that a powerful outsider had infiltrated the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm.
• Ye Xiangning cursed Zhang Yuan in her courtyard, while Ye Jichuan worried that her strange behavior and cultivation would make her a target within the Ye Family.
• Ye Jichuan told Ye Xiangning that the First Madam wanted to see her, and Ye Xiangning agreed to go.

Ye Xiangning confronted First Madam Tian at her residence, where Tian tried to arrange a marriage for her. Ye Xiangning beat Tian, and the chapter ended as Ye Guzhi and Ye Zhenshu arrived.

• Ye Xiangning kicked open the gate to First Madam Tian's residence and forced her way inside.
• Ye Xiangning confronted First Madam Tian at the pond and demanded to know why she had summoned her.
• First Madam Tian said she had arranged a marriage for Ye Xiangning because she believed Xiangning was too old to cultivate successfully.
• Ye Xiangning slapped First Madam Tian, climbed on top of her, and beat her while taunting her about admiring flowers.
• Ye Xiangning stuffed a crushed white lotus into First Madam Tian's mouth.
• Ye Guzhi and Ye Zhenshu arrived and ordered Ye Xiangning to let Tian go.

Ye Xiangning humiliated Lady Tian, defied Ye Guzhi, and left Ye Zhenshu wondering who she really was. Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun returned to a greatly enlarged Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm, where they encountered soldiers and escorts sharing a ruined temple.

• Ye Guzhi arrived and ordered Ye Xiangning to get off Lady Tian, but Ye Xiangning dared him to kill her and he could not act without endangering his bid for the family head position.
• Ye Xiangning mocked Ye Guzhi, left Lady Tian's residence, and warned Ye Zhenshu about her collusion with demon realm cultivators.
• Ye Zhenshu watched Ye Xiangning leave and suspected that she was not the real Ye Xiangning.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun returned through the Flesh Gate and discovered that the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm had grown vastly larger and held many more children of fortune.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun descended into the realm and arrived near a ruined temple where deserter soldiers and an escort group were sheltering.
• A young man in yellow-and-purple robes questioned the soldiers' leader about their military assignment, and the leader challenged him to identify himself.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun arrived at a ruined temple and rescued the Ling Kingdom’s Crown Prince from his third brother and the Wen River Deng Clan’s allies. Zhang Yuan learned that the Eastern Bian Li Clan claimed his engagement had been renewed and summoned him to Sun-Moon Cliff, just before Miss Cui appeared.

• The Ling Kingdom’s third prince ordered his men to kill the soldiers who discovered the Crown Prince in a cage, then explained that he had sided with the Wen River Deng Clan to protect himself.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun entered the temple, and Zhang Yuan defeated the third prince’s divine ability before wiping out most of the black-robed cultivators with one sword strike.
• The third prince recognized Zhang Yuan as the Bian Kingdom’s [Return to True Celestial Person], prompting Zhang Yuan to ask how he had learned that identity.
• The third prince said the Eastern Bian Li Clan had announced that Zhang Yuan’s engagement was renewed and instructed him to visit Sun-Moon Cliff before a deadline.
• A familiar voice and crushing pressure descended from the sky, and Zhang Yuan recognized the girl who appeared as Miss Cui.

Zhang Yuan reunited with Cui Yuanxi and Cui Wenshan at a ruined temple, where Cui Yuanxi explained she had come along to gain experience during the war. Meanwhile, two Cui clan True Lords discussed Zhang Yuan, Cui Yuanxi’s feelings, and the approaching merger of realms as conflict intensified.

• Cui Yuanxi recognized Zhang Yuan at the temple, playfully challenged his formal way of addressing her, and was satisfied when he called her Miss Yuanxi.
• Cui Wenshan greeted Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, recalled failing to find them after gathering allies to deal with Lu Qingwu, and carried the dying Ling Kingdom crown prince away.
• Zhang Yuan cleared the temple of corpses and rekindled the campfire, then learned Cui Yuanxi had been allowed to follow Cui Wenshan because the war situation had changed.
• At the Cui Immortal Manor, True Lord Jianmu Dinghai and Cloud Ao Bearing the Mountain True Lord discussed trying to temper Cui Yuanxi’s feelings for Zhang Yuan and the difficulty of competing with the person who valued him.
• The two True Lords noted that the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm was nearing its merger into the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm and that renewed wars were drawing secluded Celestial Persons into the struggle.

Zhang Yuan learned that the kingdoms were at war again and considered returning to Ya Kingdom to check on Cui Qiezhe. Meanwhile, Cui Zhaowei received the Messenger Trial and set out to deliver a letter to Zhang Yuan, while Li Houjin was ordered to stop Zhang Yuan from returning to Bian Kingdom and marrying Zhong Shuang.

• Cui Yuanxi told Zhang Yuan that Wen Kingdom had begun fighting Ling Kingdom and other kingdoms, while Ao Kingdom acted as Ling Kingdom's ally.
• Zhang Yuan worried that Ya Kingdom and the Eastern Ya Cui Clan might be in danger and considered visiting Cui Qiezhe once the rain cleared.
• Cui Zhaowei told Cui Qiezhe that her Messenger Trial required her to deliver a letter to Zhang Yuan, then departed with the sealed letter.
• Li Houcheng ordered Li Houjin to leave other outsiders alone and subdue Zhang Yuan before he could return to Bian Kingdom and marry Zhong Shuang.
• Li Houjin killed an outsider who had refused to submit to the Eastern Bian Li Clan, gathered his Outer-Heaven Fortune, and resolved to go after Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan killed a monk who demanded the trio’s fortune, then Cui Yuanxi hinted that she had fallen for Zhang Yuan. Their exchange was interrupted when Cui Zhaowei arrived to deliver Zhang Yuan a letter.

• Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Cui Yuanxi left the ruined temple, but a monk confronted them and demanded half their fortune in exchange for playing “One, Two, Three, Freeze.”
• Zhang Yuan attacked the monk with Three-Colored Qi Light, shattered his Buddha light, and erased him.
• Cui Yuanxi invited Zhang Yuan to play the game later and said she would lose because her heart would move; Xiao Yuanjun realized she was declaring her love.
• Cui Zhaowei arrived by Sword Qi and told Zhang Yuan she had come to deliver him a letter.

Zhang Yuan received a letter from the Eastern Ya Cui Clan's True Lord asking him to pursue [Heavenly Well Radiance], but he chose to let Chen Xinqiao attain it instead. He planned to travel to Sun-Moon Cliff before the deadline to seek her resurrection.

• Cui Zhaowei delivered Zhang Yuan a letter from her father conveying the Eastern Ya Cui Clan's True Lord's offer to help him attain [Heavenly Well Radiance].
• Zhang Yuan accepted the offer but privately resisted pursuing the golden position because Chen Xinqiao's previous incarnation had pursued it, and he did not want to owe her more.
• Zhang Yuan asked Cui Yuanxi to escort Cui Zhaowei back to the Ya Kingdom while he handled other matters.
• After Cui Yuanxi and Cui Zhaowei left, Zhang Yuan told Xiao Yuanjun that he intended for Chen Xinqiao to attain [Heavenly Well Radiance].
• Zhang Yuan revealed that the Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord had promised to resurrect Chen Xinqiao if he brought a pre-heaven artifact treasure to Sun-Moon Cliff, and he planned to go before the deadline.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun headed for Sun-Moon Cliff, but first sought directions and a magical hairpin from the Wen River Deng Clan. They reached a Wen Kingdom border city, where Zhang Yuan confronted Deng Qingyang and demanded to be taken to the clan’s principal house and Main Line.

• Xiao Yuanjun agreed to travel with Zhang Yuan to Sun-Moon Cliff, though neither knew its location.
• Zhang Yuan proposed visiting the Wen River Deng Clan to ask for directions and obtain a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure magical hairpin, and Xiao Yuanjun agreed.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun flew to a Wen Kingdom border city bearing the Wen River Deng Clan’s flags.
• Deng Qingyang recognized Zhang Yuan, the [Return to True] Celestial Person who had nearly killed him at Cloud Brocade Mountain, and trembled in fear.
• Zhang Yuan demanded that Deng Qingyang guide them to the Wen River Deng Clan’s principal house and Main Line, threatening him if he lied.

Zhang Yuan spared Deng Qingyang after learning the Wen River Deng Clan’s main branch was in Hongde City, while Deng Qingyang secretly warned the clan of their approach. As Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun reached the city, Deng Yici intercepted them and again proposed that Zhang Yuan marry into the clan.

• Deng Qingyang told Zhang Yuan that the Wen River Deng Clan’s main branch was in Hongde City, and Zhang Yuan spared him after confirming he had spoken truthfully.
• Deng Qingyang warned the clan’s Main Line that Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun were heading to Hongde City, then tried to convince himself he had acted out of loyalty rather than fear.
• While flying over the Wen Kingdom, Zhang Yuan considered how microcosms and miniature worlds were merging into the realm and feared the coming conflict among the Five Great Realms.
• Deng Yici blocked Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun near Hongde City and welcomed Zhang Yuan on behalf of the clan’s House Elders.
• Deng Yici asked whether Zhang Yuan had accepted her proposal to marry into the Wen River Deng Clan and said her Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure was ready for him.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun entered Hongde City as guests of the Wen River Deng Clan, whose Celestial Persons prepared to suppress Zhang Yuan if he acted against them. Zhang Yuan instead asked about the Eastern Bian Li Clan’s Sun-Moon Cliff, and Deng Yici went to ask the clan’s ancestor for its location.

• Deng Yici welcomed Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to a banquet at the Wen River Deng Clan’s residence in Hongde City.
• Deng Fuchuan greeted the pair and led them to a banquet surrounded by the clan’s Celestial Persons.
• Deng Fuchuan asked Zhang Yuan why he had come, and Zhang Yuan said he was seeking the Dao.
• Zhang Yuan asked how to reach the Eastern Bian Li Clan’s Sun-Moon Cliff, but Deng Fuchuan said the clan did not know its location.
• Deng Fuchuan privately asked Deng Yici to consult the ancestor, and she went to ask where Sun-Moon Cliff was.

At the Wen River Deng Clan, Zhang Yuan asked for directions to Sun-Moon Cliff and demanded a hairpin-shaped Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure. True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns judged that Zhang Yuan was either mad or manipulated, refused to take on the karmic risk of guiding him directly, and arranged to send him toward the Bian Kingdom instead.

• Deng Yici told True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns that Zhang Yuan had come seeking directions to Sun-Moon Cliff, and he was astonished that a Celestial mid-stage cultivator planned to seek the Dao there.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns told Deng Yici to point Zhang Yuan toward the Bian Kingdom, then listened in and heard Zhang Yuan demand a hairpin-shaped Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns concluded Zhang Yuan wanted the treasure to shift the consequences of seeking the Dao onto the Wen River Deng Clan, and he sent Deng Fuchuan a voice transmission.
• Deng Yici returned to the Main Hall, where Deng Fuchuan claimed the clan did not know Sun-Moon Cliff's location but gave Zhang Yuan directions to the Bian Kingdom.
• Zhang Yuan suspected the clan was hiding the location and asked whether they had found the Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure he required.

Zhang Yuan confronted the Wen River Deng Clan, suppressed its Celestial Persons, and unleashed a sweeping sword attack to force True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns to appear. The True Lord stopped the attack without suffering heavenly punishment, leaving Zhang Yuan to face an opponent whose incarnation far surpassed ordinary Celestial Persons.

• Deng Qiuzhi and his branch released their conceptual images against Zhang Yuan, but Zhang Yuan suppressed them by forty percent with his abilities.
• Deng Fuchuan tried to calm the confrontation, while Xiao Yuanjun urged Zhang Yuan to beat the clan and empty its lineage treasury.
• Zhang Yuan drew the Primordial Form-Converging Sword and sent three-colored qi light across the Deng Residence, targeting everyone there.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns appeared, deflected the qi light, and gathered it into a sphere before it could kill the clan's younger members.
• Zhang Yuan revealed that he had attacked to draw out the True Lord, but he realized the True Lord's incarnation was far stronger than he had expected.

True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns intervened to stop the fighting and offered Zhang Yuan a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure. Zhang Yuan shaped it into a hairpin for the Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord, and Yuheng left after Zhang insulted the finished treasure's quality.

• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns chastised the Wen River Deng Clan's Celestial Persons, who admitted their fault, then explained that other clans had also pursued True Person Qingxu.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns offered to refine Zhang Yuan's luminous qi into a Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure for his visit to the Eastern Bian Li Clan.
• Zhang Yuan shaped the luminous qi into an orchid-headed hairpin with sun-and-moon designs, intending it as a gift for the Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns refined the hairpin with xin metal and gave it to Zhang Yuan, who called it a mediocre treasure before storing it away.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns departed after ordering Yi Ci to show the guests out.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun entered the Bian Kingdom, where Li Houjin stopped them with his Eternal Stillness Dao Domain. Zhang Yuan countered with his own Dao Domain, and Li Houjin recognized them as the disguised Vengeful Ghosts from Clear Harmony City.

• Deng Yici escorted Zhang Yuan beyond Hongde City, then told him to fly southeast toward the Bian Kingdom before he left with Xiao Yuanjun in the Golden Carriage.
• News spread that Zhang Yuan would seek the Dao at Sun-Moon Cliff, prompting cultivators and clan leaders to doubt the report.
• Li Houjin waited at an abandoned border city and stopped the Golden Carriage with his Eternal Stillness Dao Domain.
• Zhang Yuan summoned the Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain to counter Li Houjin's domain while Xiao Yuanjun remained beside him.
• Zhang Yuan greeted Li Houjin as the Ginseng Celestial and reminded him of their meeting in Clear Harmony City, causing Li Houjin to recognize them as the disguised Vengeful Ghosts.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun fought Li Houjin, using their domains and treasures to overwhelm him and strike a seemingly fatal blow. Li Houjin escaped into the Great Void with a jade pendant, leaving Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to decide whether to pursue him.

• Zhang Yuan attacked Li Houjin, but Xiao Yuanjun used [Myriad Forms Transformation] to slow Li Houjin and let Zhang Yuan cut him in half.
• Li Houjin restored his body with his dao domain and decided to retreat after realizing he could not defeat Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan revealed the [Eastern Mystic-Yang Fusang Banner], the [Southern Flame-Bright Scarlet-Crimson Banner], and the [Western Duguang Bridge-Sky Banner], badly wounding Li Houjin.
• Xiao Yuanjun altered [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] to sever Li Houjin's vitality, and Zhang Yuan thrust the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword] through his body.
• Li Houjin crushed a jade pendant, broke through the [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain], and fled into the Great Void.
• Xiao Yuanjun asked Zhang Yuan whether they should chase Li Houjin.

Zhang Yuan met Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang after defeating Li Houjin, learned that a True Lord had taken Xiao Yuanjun to Sun-Moon Cliff, and asked the two women for advice about a hairpin he had made for the True Lord. Li Huixi approved of its design, while Zhang Yuan explained that its orchid motif reflected the True Lord’s refined character.

• Zhang Yuan decided not to pursue the gravely wounded Li Houjin and prepared to go to Cloud Prefecture City with Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang.
• Li Zhongshuang asked where Xiao Yuanjun was, and Li Huixi explained that a True Lord had taken her to Sun-Moon Cliff for tea.
• Zhang Yuan showed Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang the Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure hairpin he had forged for the Eastern Bian Li Clan's True Lord.
• Li Huixi praised the hairpin’s design, and Zhang Yuan knocked her on the head when she said she liked it.
• Zhang Yuan said he chose the orchid motif because he had heard the True Lord was gentle and refined, which pleased Li Huixi.

Zhang Yuan entrusted the Four Seasons Mystic Jade Hairpin to Li Huixi, whose naming of it greatly strengthened its conceptual image, and traveled with her toward Cloud Prefecture City. There, Li Houjin realized Li Houcheng had sent him to die, confronted him, and was erased by the Three-Colored Qi Light.

• Zhang Yuan gave Li Huixi the hairpin to deliver to the True Lord, and she named it the Four Seasons Mystic Jade Hairpin.
• The hairpin's conceptual image surged after Li Huixi named it, astonishing Zhang Yuan.
• Li Huixi led Zhang Yuan and Li Zhongshuang toward Cloud Prefecture City.
• Li Houjin learned that Li Houcheng was celebrating Zhang Yuan's return as the Li Clan's son-in-law and concluded that Li Houcheng had knowingly sent him to his death.
• Li Houjin confronted Li Houcheng, who explained that he had acted to protect their branch because the Little Ancestor favored Zhang Yuan.
• Li Houjin died as the Three-Colored Qi Light erased his celestial person dharma body, Three Hun, and Seven Po.

Zhang Yuan arrived in Cloud Prefecture City with Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang, while Xiao Yuanjun was trapped at Sun-Moon Cliff and accused Dongfang Caibai of bringing her there. Li Huixi revealed herself as the one who had transported Xiao Yuanjun and assessed her exceptional talent.

• Li Huixi left Zhang Yuan and Li Zhongshuang at Cloud Prefecture City, promising to brew tea for Zhang Yuan when he visited Sun-Moon Cliff the next day.
• Li Zhongshuang took Zhang Yuan to his old quarters and planned to accompany him to see Li Huixi in the morning.
• At Sun-Moon Cliff, Xiao Yuanjun threatened and beat Dongfang Caibai while demanding to know how to escape.
• Li Huixi returned, and Xiao Yuanjun realized that Li Huixi had brought her to the cliff; Dongfang Caibai then complained that Li Huixi was petty about Zhang Yuan.
• Li Huixi praised Xiao Yuanjun's foundations and said her comprehension was far inferior to her own.