Recaps

Zhang Yuan asked True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor for [Interlocking Sha] and offered to help the Chu Clan fight the Demon Empress at the grand wedding. When the True Lord proposed a Chu Clan daughter as an additional condition, Zhang Yuan claimed the person he loved was present, pointing at Li Huixi and leaving the gathering stunned.

• Chu Miaofu brought Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to meet True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor, where they encountered Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang.
• Zhang Yuan clarified that he did not want to be the Third Princess's consort and asked to trade for [Interlocking Sha].
• Zhang Yuan offered to help the Chu Clan eliminate the Demon Empress at the grand wedding, but the True Lord said that was not enough.
• True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor offered [Interlocking Sha] if Zhang Yuan agreed to marry a Chu Clan daughter, and Zhang Yuan declined, saying his heart belonged to someone.
• Pressed to name the woman he loved, Zhang Yuan pointed toward Li Huixi and Li Zhongshuang, and Li Huixi calmly greeted him.

Zhang Yuan fought Chu Xiwen for the [Interlocking Sha], using [Iron Chain Sha] to link their states and turn her own attacks against her. The battle continued with Chu Xiwen’s divine light apparently leaving Zhang Yuan unharmed while his hand held the light and hers was badly injured.

• True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor offered Zhang Yuan the [Interlocking Sha] if he defeated Chu Xiwen, a Fourth-Turn Qi Refining cultivator.
• Chu Xiwen looked down on Zhang Yuan as an outsider from beyond the heavens and demanded that he concede, but he insisted on fighting.
• Chu Xiwen attacked with [Myriad Manifestation Creation Divine Light], and Zhang Yuan avoided the blast that destroyed the stone paving.
• Zhang Yuan sent a golden carriage at Chu Xiwen, then used [Iron Chain Sha] to link them and hurt his own knee, forcing her to drop to one knee.
• Chu Xiwen blasted Zhang Yuan with divine light, but he stood unharmed holding the light while her hand was left mangled.

Zhang Yuan defeated Chu Xiwen, won the promised [Interlocking Sha] from True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor, and advanced to five-turn Qi Refining. As he prepared to cooperate with Dongfang Caibai at the grand wedding, Chu Xiwen received recognition and a reward for her perseverance.

• Zhang Yuan crushed Chu Xiwen's [Myriad Manifestation Creation Divine Light] with [Life-Stealing Sha], and Chu Xiwen conceded after realizing she could not defeat him.
• True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor fulfilled his promise by condensing a new [Interlocking Sha] into a pebble for Zhang Yuan.
• True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor told Zhang Yuan to cooperate with Dongfang Caibai at the grand wedding and not act rashly.
• Zhang Yuan refined [Interlocking Sha] in the golden carriage, advanced to five-turn Qi Refining, and Xiao Yuanjun concealed his cultivation aura.
• True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor reassured Chu Xiwen that her defeat was not her fault and ordered Wonderful Being to fetch two suitable earthly sha for her.

On the day of his wedding to Dongfang Caibai, Zhang Yuan discovered that [Heaven's Sight] now showed Li Clan's daughter coming to seize him, though it revealed no outcome. As Zhang Yuan and Dongfang Caibai were about to bow under the Bian Kingdom Empress's control, the Li and Chu clans arrived and Li Jiejian demanded that the Empress release his brother-in-law.

• Zhang Yuan saw that [Heaven's Sight] had replaced his future as Dongfang Caibai's consort with one in which Li Clan's daughter came to take him from the wedding, without specifying what followed.
• Xiao Yuanjun met Zhang Yuan outside his room and accompanied him to the main hall, where the Bian Emperor and Bian Kingdom Empress awaited the wedding.
• The Bian Kingdom Empress began the ceremony, and Zhang Yuan and Dongfang Caibai found that they could not control their bodies as they prepared to bow.
• Li Houjin and Chu Miaofu led members of the Li and Chu clans into the hall, with the Western Bian Chu Clan bearing gifts and the Eastern Bian Li Clan carrying weapons.
• Li Jiejian pointed at the Bian Kingdom Empress and demanded that she release his brother-in-law.

At Zhang Yuan and Dongfang Caibai’s wedding, the Bian Kingdom’s national fortune linked their lives, prompting Li Houjin to attack Zhang Yuan. Xiao Yuanjun intervened, helping Zhang Yuan refine the [Shared Life Sha] and advance to Sixth-Turn Qi Refining, while he realized the three earthly sha could let him bind his life and karma to hers.

• Li Jiejian asked the Bian Emperor to let Zhang Yuan return with the Eastern Bian Li Clan, but the Emperor dissolved Zhang Yuan’s betrothal to the Bian Kingdom’s Li Clan daughter and ordered the wedding to continue.
• Zhang Yuan and Dongfang Caibai bowed to heaven and earth, receiving the Bian Kingdom’s national fortune and linking their lives together.
• Chu Miaofu told Li Houjin to act, and he attacked Zhang Yuan to thwart the Demon Empress’s plan to claim the national fortune.
• Dongfang Caibai broke free of her restraint and blocked Li Houjin’s strike, but he enveloped the residence in his [Eternal Stillness Dao Domain].
• Xiao Yuanjun used her divine abilities to press the [Shared Life Sha] onto Zhang Yuan and urged him to refine it.
• Zhang Yuan refined the [Shared Life Sha] in less than two breaths, advanced to Sixth-Turn Qi Refining, and realized the three earthly sha could help bind his life and karma to Xiao Yuanjun’s.

Zhang Yuan used [Myriad Coexistence] to receive Xiao Yuanjun’s [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying] as Li Houjin attacked him. The Bian Kingdom Empress and True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor began confronting each other, while Xiao Yuanjun prepared to face the Heavenly Punishment Trial and become a Celestial Person.

• Zhang Yuan formed a symbiotic link with Xiao Yuanjun and gained her Divine Ability, [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying].
• Li Houjin’s Dao Domain pressed down on Zhang Yuan until the Bian Kingdom Empress shattered it and grievously wounded Li Houjin.
• True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor appeared and challenged the Bian Kingdom Empress, who killed the Bian Kingdom emperor and began devouring the kingdom’s national destiny.
• Xiao Yuanjun urged Zhang Yuan to escape while she held off the other Celestial Persons, and Zhang Yuan realized the second trial had been passed.
• Xiao Yuanjun faced the approaching [Heavenly Punishment Trial], confident she could survive the lightning tribulation and become a Celestial Person.

Xiao Yuanjun passed the Heavenly Punishment Trial and attained Celestial Personhood as Zhang Yuan slipped out of the Third Princess's Residence. His attempt to leave the capital was interrupted by Li Zhongshuang and Li Huixi, but he drove away in his golden carriage.

• Xiao Yuanjun endured the Heavenly Punishment Trial and attained Celestial Personhood with the Dao title [Perfect Self].
• Li Houjin decided to strike Xiao Yuanjun down and unleashed his [Eternal Stillness Dao Domain].
• Zhang Yuan used [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying] to sneak out of the Third Princess's Residence and prepared to leave the capital.
• Li Zhongshuang stopped Zhang Yuan, and he realized she was the Li Clan daughter betrothed to him.
• Li Huixi appeared and asked where Zhang Yuan was going, but he told her he would not go to the Li Clan and drove away in his golden carriage.

After Zhang Yuan fled, Xiao Yuanjun faced the Li and Chu clans and Dongfang Caibai, but Li Huixi arrived and revealed her standing as the Dark-Heaven World-Annihilating True Lord. She caught and punished the Demon Empress of the Bian Kingdom, then claimed Dongfang Caibai as an attendant at Sun-Moon Cliff.

• Xiao Yuanjun overpowered Li Houjin, Chu Miaofu, and Dongfang Caibai, who realized she possessed a Dao domain.
• Li Huixi entered the main hall, and Li Houjin respectfully addressed her as Little Ancestor.
• Li Huixi cleared the clouds above the Capital City, revealing True Lord Profound Firmament Heavenly Splendor battling the Demon Empress of the Bian Kingdom.
• The Demon Empress fled toward Qingqiu, but Li Huixi seized her before her escape and punched her body into a mist of blood.
• Li Huixi warned the Demon Empress not to tie red threads at random, and the Demon Empress realized Zhang Yuan's destined marriage remained intact.
• Li Huixi ordered Dongfang Caibai to cultivate under her as an attendant at Sun-Moon Cliff.

After Li Huixi rescued the Bian Emperor and severed Dongfang Caibai's connection to Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan fled the Bian Kingdom and entered Jianning City, where he discovered Xiao Yuanjun's portrait among the wanted notices. Safely settled in an inn, he unlocked three new talent choices but had not yet selected one.

• Li Huixi rewound time to restore the Bian Emperor, then severed the karmic link between Dongfang Caibai and Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan flew away from the Bian Kingdom for three days and nights, then headed to Jianning City while sensing through [Myriad Coexistence] that Xiao Yuanjun was safe.
• At Jianning's gates, Zhang Yuan recognized Xiao Yuanjun in a portrait the guards were using to identify entrants, but entered the city without revealing his connection to her.
• Zhang Yuan checked [Heaven's Sight] at an inn, found no predetermined futures, and activated [Person Viewing].
• Zhang Yuan discovered the new talents [Certain Gain], [Naturally Formed Immortal Body], and [Immaculate Primordial Spirit], and began weighing which one to choose.

Zhang Yuan chose [Unsullied Primordial Spirit], which kept his mind clear and immune to lower-level primordial spirit influences. After sensing that a hidden influence was drawing people toward an ancient tomb, he tried to leave Jianning City but was stopped by the Aohai Cui Clan’s carriage.

• Zhang Yuan selected [Unsullied Primordial Spirit] and discovered that it let him remain mentally sharp without sleep or meditation.
• At the inn, Zhang Yuan learned that crowds were heading to an ancient tomb and realized a Foundation Establishment Celestial might be manipulating people’s desire for opportunities.
• Zhang Yuan decided to leave Jianning City, but a maid from the Aohai Cui Clan struck at him with a whip, and he cut it in two with an Iron Chain.
• Zhang Yuan tried to walk away from the carriage, but a woman inside called for Xiao Shi to ask him to stay, and he prepared to flee toward the city gate.

Zhang Yuan refused Cui Yuanxi’s invitation to explore an Ancient Cultivator Tomb, then watched from an inn as the tomb’s barrier trapped its visitors and killed them to form a pill. He realized the danger was real and remained outside, watching events unfold.

• Xiao Shi stopped Zhang Yuan from leaving and relayed Cui Yuanxi’s invitation to help explore the tomb, but he refused.
• Zhang Yuan’s Heaven’s Sight showed that entering the tomb could lead to his death or being turned into a puppet, and that Cui Yuanxi would narrowly escape the trap without his help.
• Unable to leave Jianning City because the gate was sealed, Zhang Yuan returned to an inn and rented a higher room overlooking the tomb.
• A Foundation Establishment Celestial opened the barrier, and crowds of cultivators and mortals entered the tomb while Cui Yuanxi used a private passage.
• The barrier sealed again, turned scarlet, and dissolved visitors holding treasures into blood mist that gathered into a pill.

Blood Miasma revealed himself as the Foundation Establishment Celestial behind the barrier and the blood-refining pill, while Zhang Yuan realized the innkeeper’s identity and fled. After Blood Miasma released Cui Yuanxi, Cui Wenshan demanded that he free the remaining captives, but reinforcements arrived and Blood Miasma fled east.

• The scarlet barrier reduced those emerging from the tomb to blood mist, and Cui Wenshan confirmed that Cui Yuanxi was safe beneath it.
• Blood Miasma revealed himself as the innkeeper, and Zhang Yuan recognized the danger, packed his belongings, and left the inn.
• Cui Wenshan identified Blood Miasma and demanded Cui Yuanxi’s release; Blood Miasma transported her out of the barrier.
• Cui Wenshan demanded that Blood Miasma release the other captives, then revealed that four Foundation Establishment Celestials had arrived to support him.
• Blood Miasma opened the barrier, seized the golden core, smashed the pagoda-shaped inn into the tomb to scatter its treasures, and fled east as Cui Wenshan pursued him.

After the tomb collapsed, Zhang Yuan seized several outer dao treasures and [Water Calamity Sha] while other cultivators fought over [Demon-Subduing Heavenly Gang]. Three cultivators pursued him to rob him, and Zhang Yuan pretended to be Li Huixi of the Eastern Bian Li Clan to deter them.

• Zhang Yuan saw that no Foundation Establishment Celestials remained in Jianning City and used [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] to fly up and collect several treasures.
• Zhang Yuan spotted [Water Calamity Sha] and raced to claim it, but the cultivators abandoned their pursuit when [Demon-Subduing Heavenly Gang] appeared.
• Zhang Yuan seized [Water Calamity Sha] and escaped the city, leaving the other cultivators to battle over the heavenly gang.
• Outside the city, Zhang Yuan counted five outer dao treasures and one [Water Calamity Sha], then prepared to fly farther away.
• A black-robed old man, a burly middle-aged man, and a finely dressed young man stopped Zhang Yuan, and he claimed to be Li Huixi of the Eastern Bian Li Clan.

Zhang Yuan ambushed three attackers, killed the burly man and Wang Shaohua, and pursued the black-robed elder who had escaped. He caught up in his Phoenix Luan Golden Carriage after the elder delayed to threaten him.

• Zhang Yuan used [Myriad Coexistence] to trap the burly man and Wang Shaohua, preventing them from using their divine abilities.
• The black-robed elder fled into the air, leaving his grandson, the burly man, behind.
• Zhang Yuan crushed the burly man, then killed Wang Shaohua after using [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying] to conceal his appearance and sever karmic ties.
• Zhang Yuan burned both bodies to ash and decided not to let the black-robed elder escape.
• The black-robed elder threatened Zhang Yuan before fleeing, and Zhang Yuan pursued him in the Phoenix Luan Golden Carriage.

Zhang Yuan caught the Black-Robed Elder, who called himself Daoist Ghostwind, and cornered him after he seized the mortal Chen Qinkuai as a hostage. Zhang Yuan rescued Chen Qinkuai and closed in as Daoist Ghostwind prepared to fight back with [Mirage Wind].

• The Black-Robed Elder fled Jianning City, but Zhang Yuan caught up with him using [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] and knocked him into the mountains.
• Zhang Yuan trapped the injured Black-Robed Elder with iron chains and prepared to kill him.
• Chen Qinkuai emerged from the bushes, and the Black-Robed Elder seized him as a hostage, demanding that Zhang Yuan let him go.
• Zhang Yuan refused to bargain, and his past-life body used [Severing Past and Present, Leaving or Staying] to free Chen Qinkuai from the Black-Robed Elder's grip.
• Zhang Yuan sent the iron chains down around the Black-Robed Elder, who gathered black wind and prepared to use [Mirage Wind].

Zhang Yuan survived the Black-Robed Elder’s Mirage Wind by switching Xiao Yuanjun’s attached divine ability to Ninefold Harmonizing Qi, then killed the elder with Fivefold Body-Rending Qi. Chen Qinkuai mistook Zhang Yuan for an evil cultivator, and Zhang Yuan threatened him into answering questions.

• The Black-Robed Elder formed Mirage Wind and sent its dragon rushing at Zhang Yuan, who stood his ground.
• Zhang Yuan secretly switched his attached divine ability to Ninefold Harmonizing Qi, which swept away the mist and left him unharmed.
• Zhang Yuan switched to Fivefold Body-Rending Qi and reduced the Black-Robed Elder to a skeleton.
• Chen Qinkuai woke, mistook Zhang Yuan for a terrifying evil cultivator, and begged him to spare his life.
• Zhang Yuan told Chen Qinkuai to answer his questions and threatened to leave him beside the elder’s bones if he refused.

Zhang Yuan questioned Chen Qinkuai about their location and followed him to Liu Family Village, looking for a quiet place to stay. At Chen Qinkuai’s home, they found his mother and sister-in-law trying to take Xin Qiao to the city, and Chen Qinkuai intervened.

• Zhang Yuan learned that they were in the Ao Kingdom near Dragon Creek City and asked Chen Qinkuai to take him in.
• Chen Qinkuai led Zhang Yuan to Liu Family Village, where gatekeeper Liu Song mistook Zhang Yuan for Chen Qinkuai’s son-in-law.
• Chen Qinkuai arrived home and found his mother and Liu Yu Lan berating Xin Qiao in the snow.
• Chen Qinkuai stopped Liu Yu Lan from striking Xin Qiao and asked why they had come.
• Liu Yu Lan claimed that a wealthy household in the city wanted Xin Qiao and that they had come to take her there.

Liu Yulan and the old woman planned to abduct Chen Xinqiao and sell her to the Wang Household, but Zhang Yuan learned of their scheme and sent them away. Chen Xinqiao asked Zhang Yuan to take her as his disciple, but he refused after discovering her extraordinary nature and considering the risks.

• Chen Qinkuai refused to let Liu Yulan and the old woman take Chen Xinqiao to the city, so they left and plotted to abduct her when he went into the mountains.
• Zhang Yuan secretly questioned Liu Yulan and learned that the buyer was the Wang Household in Dragon Creek City, which had offered fifty taels of silver for Chen Xinqiao.
• Zhang Yuan returned to Chen Qinkuai's courtyard, where Chen Xinqiao stepped in front of him and asked him to take her as his disciple.
• Zhang Yuan saw that Chen Xinqiao had an immortal spirit root and was the reincarnated remnant soul of a great Outer Dao cultivator, but refused to take her as his disciple.

Zhang Yuan absorbed Water Calamity Sha and reached Seven-Turn Qi Refining before examining the Outer Dao treasures he had seized in Jianning City. The next morning, he helped Chen Xinqiao face Liu Yulan and the old woman, whose attempt to force their way into the house ended in panic when they mistook Zhang Yuan for a ghost.

• Zhang Yuan absorbed Water Calamity Sha and advanced to Seven-Turn Qi Refining.
• Zhang Yuan examined two secret manuals, two bottles of cultivation pills, and the Nine-Vault Golden Li Furnace, identifying the furnace as a powerful Beyond-the-World Qi Refining treasure.
• Zhang Yuan saw Chen Qinkuai leave for the mountain and heard Liu Yulan and the old woman pound on the gate.
• Chen Xinqiao asked Zhang Yuan to help answer the door, and he agreed.
• Liu Yulan and the old woman's relatives prepared to break down the gate, but Zhang Yuan opened it and frightened Liu Yulan into crying that the house was haunted.

Zhang Yuan drove off Chen Xinqiao’s relatives when they came to take her away, then returned to his room with her. Chen Xinqiao followed him to thank him, and Zhang Yuan invited her inside.

• Liu Yulan threatened Zhang Yuan, but he ordered her and Liu Zhenghong to leave.
• Liu Zhenghong attacked Zhang Yuan and collapsed with the flesh stripped from his right fist.
• Liu Peng and Liu He begged Zhang Yuan for mercy, while Liu Yulan and the old woman blamed one another.
• Zhang Yuan sent all five relatives flying and warned them never to return to Chen Xinqiao’s home.
• Chen Xinqiao followed Zhang Yuan into his room after he told her to come inside.

Zhang Yuan had Chen Xinqiao read two cultivation scriptures, discovering that one could grant her a path to cultivation and the other revealed a coveted route to the Heavenly Well Radiance True Lord position. He spared Chen Xinqiao and paid her to keep the books’ contents secret, while Liu Yulan’s household faced the arrival of the man expecting her to deliver someone.

• Zhang Yuan asked Chen Xinqiao to teach him to read, and she read the Primordial Unity One-Qi Body-Refining Treasure Scripture aloud.
• Zhang Yuan realized the body-refining method required a spirit root and offered it to Chen Xinqiao, who hesitated because she was not his disciple.
• Chen Xinqiao read the Heavenly Radiance Illuminating the World True Scripture, and Zhang Yuan recognized it as a method for claiming the Heavenly Well Radiance position among the realm’s thirty-six immortal golden positions.
• Zhang Yuan considered Chen Xinqiao a possible future rival but chose not to kill her, giving her a Qi Refining Pill in exchange for a promise to keep both books secret.
• The old woman scolded Liu Yulan for worrying about the promised silver instead of fetching a doctor for Liu Zhenghong’s injured hand, and a short man arrived demanding the person Liu Yulan had prepared.

Liu Junmao learned that Chen Xinqiao was protected by Zhang Yuan, a cultivator, and postponed his plan to take her while he reported to his client. Chen Qinkuai returned home, found Xinqiao safe, and thanked Zhang Yuan, then prepared to cook him a meal.

• Liu Yulan told Liu Junmao that Zhang Yuan had injured Liu Zhenghong while protecting Chen Xinqiao, and Liu Junmao decided to report the complication to his client.
• Liu Song spread the news that Chen Qinkuai had found a husband for Xinqiao, and Chen Qinkuai learned that Liu Junmao had returned to the village to buy children.
• Chen Qinkuai rushed home, where he found Zhang Yuan and Xinqiao safe in the courtyard.
• Chen Xinqiao told Chen Qinkuai that Zhang Yuan had crippled Liu Zhenghong's hand and driven off the visitors.
• Chen Qinkuai thanked Zhang Yuan for saving Xinqiao and reached for a hen to prepare a meal for him.

Zhang Yuan tried to deepen his understanding of [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi], but was transported to Xiao Yuanjun’s Foundation Establishment Dao Domain. There, Xiao Yuanjun recommended earthly sha for his next Divine Ability and revealed that she had built him a golden statue beside her own.

• Zhang Yuan realized that the foundation of [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] lay in the qi formed by earthly baleful forces, yin and yang, and filth.
• As Zhang Yuan tried to switch Divine Abilities, a mysterious hand seized him and carried him to the Ruined Temple, which had been restored to splendor.
• Xiao Yuanjun praised Zhang Yuan’s progress and offered to help him combine his [Water calamity sha] into an offensive Divine Ability; he chose offense.
• Xiao Yuanjun recommended [gale sha] and [Thunderstrike Sha] for Zhang Yuan’s eighth and ninth turns, then dismissed his concern about refining nine earthly sha.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that the temple was inside her [Heaven-Sundering Fourfold Immortal Domain] and conjured a golden statue of Zhang Yuan beside her own; Zhang Yuan reluctantly said he liked it.

Zhang Yuan reunited with Xiao Yuanjun through [Myriad Coexistence] and learned she would come to find him after collecting [Thunderstrike Sha]. That night, Wang Zhenfeng of the Dragon Creek City Wang Clan confronted him over Chen Xinqiao, revealing a Divine Ability that could counter Zhang Yuan's iron chains.

• Xiao Yuanjun contacted Zhang Yuan, confirmed he was safe in Liu Family Village, and told him to listen for [Mad Wind Sha] while she collected [Thunderstrike Sha].
• After returning to Chen Qinkuai's home, Zhang Yuan sensed someone above the courtyard and attacked, bringing Wang Zhenfeng down from the roof.
• Liu Junmao, the Liu family's old woman, and Liu Yulan entered the courtyard, and Liu Junmao identified Wang Zhenfeng as a cultivator from the Dragon Creek City Wang Clan.
• Zhang Yuan claimed to be Li Huixi of the Eastern Bian Li Clan, but Wang Zhenfeng recognized the name as suspicious and attacked with Sword Qi.
• Zhang Yuan sent iron chains at Wang Zhenfeng, who used [Heaven Severance] to destroy them and then offered friendship if Zhang Yuan handed over Chen Xinqiao.

Zhang Yuan and Chen Xinqiao killed Wang Zhenfeng after he threatened to take them away, then concealed their karmic ties to his death. When Zhang Yuan asked Chen Xinqiao how to deal with Liu Junmao, Liu Yulan, and the old woman, she chose to kill them, but Chen Qinkuai intervened and pleaded for his relatives.

• Wang Zhenfeng threatened Zhang Yuan and was caught in iron chains, but Chen Xinqiao stabbed him from behind with a kitchen knife carrying Zhang Yuan's Fivefold Body-Rending Qi.
• Zhang Yuan stopped Chen Xinqiao from striking again, then used his Divine Abilities to destroy Wang Zhenfeng and erase his and Chen Xinqiao's karmic ties to the killing.
• Liu Junmao, Liu Yulan, and the old woman knelt and begged Zhang Yuan to spare them, while Liu Yulan and the old woman tried to turn Chen Xinqiao against Liu Junmao.
• Chen Xinqiao remained unmoved by their appeals and said they should all be killed.
• Chen Qinkuai woke and begged Chen Xinqiao to spare her aunt and grandmother, and Chen Xinqiao looked to Zhang Yuan for support.