Recaps

After emerging from seclusion, Zhang Yuan learned that his use of the [Sun-Eroding Demon King Palace] had plunged the Roselight Capital into darkness and that Nether-Knocking City’s envoys were making demands of the Bright Dawn Kingdom. He accompanied Zhao Lian to confront them, where the envoys’ leader, Mo Huang, considered abducting her by force.

• Zhang Yuan discovered that it was midday and realized the Roselight Capital remained dark because the [Sun-Eroding Demon King Palace] was still eroding the sun.
• Zhao Lian told Zhang Yuan that twenty days had passed since the Corpse Tide retreated and that she had managed the city’s affairs during his seclusion.
• Zhao Lian explained that envoys from Nether-Knocking City had arrived to exploit the Bright Dawn Kingdom’s troubles and had demanded a fruit from its treasury.
• Zhang Yuan decided to accompany Zhao Lian to Clear Sound Hall and meet the envoys.
• At Clear Sound Hall, Nether-Knocking City’s young lord, Mo Huang, listened as an associate urged him to abduct Zhao Lian by force.

Mo Huang and the Nether-Knocking City cultivators discussed their leverage over Zhao Lian and moved to silence the maids who overheard them. Zhao Lian returned with Zhang Yuan and rejected Mo Huang’s marriage demand, leaving Zhang Yuan to insult him openly.

• Mo Huang warned his companions not to underestimate the Roselight Capital, but gave them permission to kill Hong Sha and the other maids after they overheard the group’s remarks.
• Zhao Lian arrived before the cultivators could attack the maids and stopped Hong Sha from explaining what had happened.
• Zhang Yuan mocked the Nether-Knocking City cultivators for acting too slowly, then entered the hall with Zhao Lian and sat down arrogantly.
• Zhao Lian gave Mo Huang the strange fruit he had requested and asked him to summon the Nether-Knocking Lord to aid the Roselight Capital.
• Zhao Lian refused Mo Huang’s marriage demand, explaining that she was now the Bright Dawn Kingdom’s Empress and would never marry him.
• Zhang Yuan called Mo Huang a toad lusting after swan flesh.

Zhang Yuan confronted Mo Huang and the Nether-Knocking City cultivators, declaring himself king and inventing crimes to justify punishing them. After his soul-draining attack was destroyed by a powerful white-haired elder, the elder whisked Mo Huang and his group away, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Zhang Yuan announced that he was the king of the Bright Dawn Kingdom, and Zhao Lian sat on his thigh to show Mo Huang that she had left the Zhao family’s side.
• Zhang Yuan asked Zhao Lian whether Mo Huang had committed any offenses, then declared him guilty regardless and demanded that he kneel and kowtow.
• Mo Huang threatened that Nether-Knocking City would remember the insult and prepared to leave with his cultivators.
• Zhang Yuan stopped the group and attacked them with the Great Nether World-Swallowing Hand, claiming it was an Immortal Art.
• The white-haired elder pierced through Zhang Yuan’s attack and used black mist to carry Mo Huang and the Nether-Knocking City cultivators away before Xie Jingxin arrived.

Zhang Yuan failed to track down Mo Huang after learning that Nether-Knocking City's Grand Elder, Ying Youzhuo, could conceal their traces and that the city's lord was a late Ninefold Negation Realm expert. At the Wei Residence, Wei Kan demanded that Zhang Yuan marry Wei Liu and leave Roselight Capital with her, but Zhang Yuan said the decision depended on someone in the south of the realm.

• Zhang Yuan searched Roselight Capital for Mo Huang, but Ying Youzhuo blocked his divine sense with black mist and escaped with the others.
• Zhao Lian identified Ying Youzhuo and explained that the Nether-Knocking Lord was a late Ninefold Negation Realm cultivator who commanded powerful undead.
• Zhang Yuan teased Zhao Lian about her weight, escaped her punch by traversing space, and went to the Wei Residence.
• Wei Kan questioned Zhang Yuan about his identity and his relationship with the Empress of Great Heng, then ordered him to marry Wei Liu and take her away from Roselight Capital.
• Zhang Yuan said he and Wei Kan could not decide the matter because the real authority lay in the south of the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm, and Wei Liu entered and took his arm.

After returning from twenty days in seclusion, Zhang Yuan reunited with Wei Liu and reassured her that he was alive. He then met the [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] to discuss their search for the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace] and the arrival of powerful unknown beings in the Roselight Capital.

• Wei Liu embraced Zhang Yuan and told him that court officials had spread rumors of his death while he was missing.
• Zhang Yuan carried the exhausted Wei Liu back to her room, asked Xingyu to care for her, and left to handle urgent matters.
• At the West City's wall, Zhang Yuan met the [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King], who had deduced that Zhang Yuan was also the Seventh Sun-Eroding Demon King.
• Zhang Yuan asked whether the [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] had found the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace], but he had only uncovered unconfirmed clues.
• The [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] warned Zhang Yuan that powerful unknown beings had arrived in the Roselight Capital, including visitors from beyond the realm who did not seem to come from the Dust-Dyed Realm.

Zhang Yuan doubted [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King]'s account of an outsider and planned to have Zhao Lian investigate, while Xie Jingxin arrived too late to find him. Elsewhere, Mo Huang and the Nether-Knocking City cultivators fled Zhang Yuan's divine sense and met a First God Cult Disciple, whose claims about his powerful sect left Mo Huang shocked and insulted.

• Zhang Yuan resolved to ask Zhao Lian to investigate the visitor from the outside world, and Xie Jingxin reached the city wall after he had vanished.
• Ying Youzhuo carried Mo Huang and the others away from Zhang Yuan's divine sense and told them to find a new place to hide.
• A First God Cult Disciple appeared behind Mo Huang and invited him and his companions to join the cult.
• Ying Youzhuo stopped Mo Huang from attacking the stranger, so Mo Huang questioned him about the First God Cult and its cultivation levels.
• The First God Cult Disciple claimed his sect had multiple ascension realm masters and began explaining Divine Masters, calling Mo Huang a frog at the bottom of a well.

Mo Huang avoided being recruited by a street-level First God Cult disciple, while the cult’s leaders debated their plans and their fear of the First God. The meeting ended in alarm when they learned that Bright Dawn Kingdom’s new King was Zhang Yuan, a wandering Daoist from the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm.

• A First God Cult disciple claimed the cult’s First God surpassed the Great Heng Founder, but Mo Huang declined to join after Ying Youzhuo warned him off.
• The disciple returned to the cult’s base at the Thousand Talismans inn as darkness deepened over Roselight Capital.
• Tan Duanchang told the First God Cult Master that preparations to find the Zhao Xia Imperial Family’s treasury were nearly complete, but the Cult Master cautioned against acting rashly.
• Yu Lian reported that the Holy Son had not appeared or sent word since the incident at Sky Mountain.
• A disciple revealed that Bright Dawn Kingdom’s new King was Zhang Yuan, and the First God Cult’s leaders reacted with shock.

Zhang Yuan encountered the Black-Robed Demon King and the First God Cult Master near the Wei Residence, learning that the First God Cult had come to Roselight Capital. The Cult Master attacked him but held back, and Xie Jingxin intervened when he sent another volley of black motes toward Zhang Yuan.

• Tan Duanchang asked the First God Cult Master about the suspected identity of the [Return to True] Demon Fiend, and the Cult Master decided to investigate in person.
• Zhang Yuan encountered the Black-Robed Demon King, who fired a purple beam at him, but the First God Cult Master’s black beam disrupted the attack.
• The Black-Robed Demon King vanished, and the Cult Master’s beam struck at Zhang Yuan, who destroyed it with the Great Nether World-Swallowing Hand.
• The First God Cult Master attacked Zhang Yuan with a palm, but Zhang Yuan blocked it with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword] and escaped unharmed.
• The Cult Master sent black motes toward Zhang Yuan, and Xie Jingxin cut them down with her sword.

Xie Jingxin drove off the First God Cult Master after he attacked Zhang Yuan, who kept his identity concealed and considered the danger of being exposed. After the cult master departed, Xie Jingxin asked Zhang Yuan to take her to the Demon King Palace, then remarked that she was stronger than their formidable foe.

• The First God Cult Master attacked Xie Jingxin, but after their clash he withdrew and warned Zhang Yuan that he would be watching him.
• Zhang Yuan worried that the First God Cult Master might reveal his presence to powerful Lords, but suspected the cult master would keep quiet while pursuing his own plans.
• Zhang Yuan offered Xie Jingxin a reward for saving him and tested whether she recognized his concealed identity; she instead asked him to take her to the Demon King Palace.
• Xie Jingxin declined to explain why she sought the Demon King Palace, then asked about the First God Cult Master and said she was stronger than him.

Zhang Yuan attended morning court and issued harsh decrees after officials asked him to address rumors about Solar Yang. He ordered a sweep for Nether-Knocking City cultivators and warned the capital against the First God Cult.

• Zhang Yuan left the Wei Residence for court after worrying about the curse weakening Wei Liu’s vitality.
• Zhang Yuan arrived late at One Saint Hall, where Zhao Chen recognized him and cowered after recalling the Heavenly Thunder.
• Zhang Yuan kicked away the Dragon Throne and told the officials to skip formalities and report directly.
• Qi Han asked Zhang Yuan to restore Solar Yang’s radiance, and Zhang Yuan instead ordered critics arrested and their mouths sewn shut.
• Zhang Yuan ordered a house-to-house search for Nether-Knocking City cultivators and commanded that any found be killed.
• Zhang Yuan warned the people of Roselight Capital not to trust the First God Cult’s teachings.

Zhang Yuan issued new restrictions in Roselight Capital and questioned Ruan Jiang about the Upper Nether Academy library's top floor. In Hongde City, True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns's sermon ended with Deng Lingjian killed for speaking of the Great Beginning Heaven-Governing Primordial Lady.

• Zhang Yuan decreed that no one in Roselight Capital could hide their face, grouping masked people with suspected enemies and dangerous cultivators.
• Zhang Yuan asked Ruan Jiang what was kept on the Upper Nether Academy library's top floor, and Ruan Jiang said it held the yang array plate of the city's protective formation.
• Zhang Yuan ended morning court, then ignored Zhao Lian's teasing while considering the Ancient Lord's possible control of the formation.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns finished lecturing Wen River Deng Clan Celestials in Hongde City and invited questions.
• Deng Lingjian complained that Zhang Yuan remained free after humiliating the clan, and True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns blasted him into a mist of blood for mentioning the Great Beginning Heaven-Governing Primordial Lady.

After True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns punished the Wen River Deng Clan for Deng Lingjian’s actions, he devised a way to create someone capable of defeating Zhang Yuan. The chapter ended with him accelerating generations of life and death inside countless universes contained within a mustard seed.

• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns revealed that his power had killed countless Wen River Deng Clan members across the Five Realms.
• He showed Deng Qiuzhi a golden pearl containing a strand of golden palace sand’s conceptual image and explained his plan to create a genius who could challenge Zhang Yuan.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns formed a mustard seed from dust and created billions of universes within it.
• He used the golden palace sand conceptual image to bring life to the universes, then accelerated their time to cycle through generations and search for a being with talent matching or exceeding Zhang Yuan’s.

True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns brought Jiang Xuansu from a universe within the mustard seed into the Five Realms and tasked her with surpassing and killing Zhang Yuan. Jiang Xuansu agreed and set out for the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm to find him.

• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns chose Jiang Xuansu, a prodigy whose comprehension exceeded Zhang Yuan's, and brought her into the Sermon Hall as the mustard seed's universes vanished.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns gave Jiang Xuansu Zhang Yuan's portrait and offered her freedom from her karma with the Wen River Deng Clan if she killed him.
• Jiang Xuansu agreed to kill Zhang Yuan but declined any cultivation support from True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns told Jiang Xuansu to search for Zhang Yuan in the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm, where he expected Zhang Yuan to approach the Nether Bureau's North Gate.

Jiang Xuansu reached the cosmos near the boundary of the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm and the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm, while Zhang Yuan continued cultivating and serving as the Bright Dawn Kingdom’s temporary King. After the Demon King Subjugation Squad gathered, Zhang Yuan agreed to join them in investigating a demon harming people in the Northern City, where Nether-Knocking City’s cultivators had recently been discovered.

• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns sent Jiang Xuansu toward the boundary between the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm and the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm.
• Zhang Yuan sensed a powerful danger, teased Zhao Lian about it, then used “As Though the Emperor Walked in Person” to leave with his chair.
• During the ten days without dawn, Zhang Yuan cultivated at the Wei Residence and in the Underground Treasure Vault while Zhao Lian handled the kingdom’s affairs.
• Wei Jianxing told the Demon King Subjugation Squad that a demon in the Northern City had harmed people and that the yamen’s investigators had not returned.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to go with the squad to the Northern City, where Qi Han and Ruan Jiang had found traces of Nether-Knocking City’s cultivators.

Zhang Yuan and the Wei family cultivators tracked a scream to a demon praying over a dead child in Roselight Capital’s northern district. When the demon swallowed the child and gained mysterious yin death qi, Zhang Yuan realized the city’s demon outbreak had another cause and that someone had taught the creature to summon power from the Nether Bureau.

• Wei Jianxing, Wu Qing, Pan Zhong, Zhang Yuan, Wei Liu, and Wei Huai followed a scream instead of visiting the government office.
• The group found Corpse Chiū praying over the corpse of a child, and Zhang Yuan identified it as a transformed Demon Dragon corpse.
• Corpse Chiū prayed to a Demon King Palace, and Zhang Yuan heard it mention mysterious yin death qi.
• Wei Jianxing, Wu Qing, and Pan Zhong attacked when Corpse Chiū lifted the child’s corpse, but it swallowed the body and surged to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhang Yuan sensed a wisp of mysterious yin death qi from the Nether Bureau and suspected that someone else was behind the city’s demon outbreak.

Zhang Yuan killed the Corpse Chiū after it gained Underworld-Penetrating Realm strength from the Demon King Palace, then seized the mysterious yin death qi that an Ancient Lord appeared to be pursuing. Wei Jianxing and the others were astonished by Zhang Yuan’s swordsmanship.

• The Corpse Chiū’s strength surged to the peak of the Underworld-Penetrating Realm, and Wei Jianxing, Wu Qing, and Pan Zhong failed to stop it from seizing Wu Qing.
• Zhang Yuan drew the Illuminating Netherworld Sword, severed the Corpse Chiū’s arm to free Wu Qing, then beheaded the creature and captured its soul to kill it.
• Zhang Yuan gathered the mysterious yin death qi around the Corpse Chiū and stored it in his purple mansion, thwarting the Ancient Lord’s apparent plan.
• Wei Jianxing, Wu Qing, and Pan Zhong praised Zhang Yuan’s swordsmanship and marveled at how much stronger he had become.

Zhang Yuan and his companions brought a slain Corpse Chiū to the Northern City's Yamen, only to learn that it was not the demon they had come to hunt. As the Yamen chief described a suspected ghost deity from the Demon King Palace, Zhang Yuan discovered mysterious yin death qi clinging to the cultivators who had killed other demons.

• Zhang Yuan learned there was no bounty for killing demons, then accompanied Wei Jianxing, Wu Qing, and Pan Zhong as they carried the Corpse Chiū to the Yamen.
• The Yamen chief, surnamed Xu, explained that the Corpse Chiū was one of many demons that had appeared that morning and was not the earlier demon terrorizing the city.
• Xu said the original demon often appeared in human form and might be a ghost deity from the Demon King Palace.
• Zhang Yuan found no mysterious yin death qi among the demon corpses but sensed a few wisps around the cultivators who had brought them in.

Zhang Yuan realized that the demons and spreading death mist were part of a plan threatening Roselight Capital, so he revealed himself as King and ordered the city locked down. He sent Wei Jianxing to warn Third Princess Zhao Lian not to activate the City-Protecting Grand Formation while he stayed behind to deal with the coming calamity.

• Zhang Yuan saw the demons’ mysterious yin death qi gather and burst into white mist that spread from the Northern City Yamen throughout Roselight Capital.
• Zhang Yuan put on the royal crown, declared himself King, and ordered the cultivators to close the gates, send citizens home, warn the city’s cultivators, and kill any demons that appeared.
• Zhang Yuan warned Wei Jianxing that Roselight Capital faced a calamity that could destroy the city if mishandled.
• Zhang Yuan sent Wei Jianxing to tell Third Princess Zhao Lian not to activate the City-Protecting Grand Formation and asked him to notify Senior Wei to go to the Upper Nether Academy library.
• Wei Jianxing led Wu Qing, Pan Zhong, and the others toward the Imperial City, while Wei Liu quietly told Zhang Yuan to be careful and that she would wait for his return.

Zhang Yuan used [Heaven's Sight] to assess the Ancient True Lord’s scheme and refused to activate the City-Protecting Grand Formation. He bargained with [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] for the locations of the Nether-Knocking City cultivators, then traveled to Flint Street to find them.

• Zhang Yuan learned from [Heaven's Sight] that activating the City-Protecting Grand Formation or fleeing would lead to his death, while destroying its two array plates offered a possible path forward.
• [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] told Zhang Yuan that entering the Demon King Palace required credentials and asked whether he would protect Roselight Capital or flee.
• Zhang Yuan agreed to preserve Roselight Capital in exchange for the locations of the Nether-Knocking City cultivators, and [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] named Flint Street and the Upper Nether Academy.
• Zhang Yuan traveled to a wealthy merchant’s residence on Flint Street and knocked at its gate, where a servant who was not one of the cultivators answered.

Zhang Yuan attacked a manor gathering of Nether-Knocking City cultivators and killed Young City Lord Mo Huang, discovering that he was an unaware corpse puppet. Zhang Yuan then suspected that the absent Grand Elder Ying Youzhuo was actually the Nether-Knocking Lord and turned toward the Upper Nether Academy.

• Zhang Yuan entered the merchant's manor and killed a Nether-Knocking City cultivator with his thrown Nether-Illuminating Sword.
• Zhang Yuan slaughtered the other Nether-Knocking City cultivators around Mo Huang while sparing the merchant and servants.
• Mo Huang attacked Zhang Yuan with black thunderclaps, but Zhang Yuan dodged and countered with Dust-Treading Divine Thunder.
• Zhang Yuan's repeated blows revealed that Mo Huang was a dried corpse puppet, and Zhang Yuan learned that Mo Huang did not know what he was.
• Zhang Yuan empowered his sword with Malice Growth, cleaved Mo Huang in two, and refined Mo Huang's remnant soul.
• Zhang Yuan suspected the absent Ying Youzhuo was the Nether-Knocking Lord and turned toward the Upper Nether Academy.

Zhang Yuan went to the Imperial Academy to deal with the Yin Plate and found Grand Libationer Qi Han and Ruan Yu there. When Qi Han threw him the unstable plate, Zhang Yuan summoned Xie Jingxin for protection, but an old man appeared and caught it first.

• Zhang Yuan reassured a wealthy merchant and his attendant after killing the people in their courtyard, then left them to report the incident.
• Zhang Yuan entered the deserted Imperial Academy and found Qi Han holding the Yin Plate beside Ruan Yu.
• Qi Han claimed Ruan Jiang had defected and warned that the Yin Plate was out of control and could endanger Roselight Capital.
• Zhang Yuan refused to fetch another eighth-realm expert and told Qi Han to throw him the Yin Plate.
• The Yin Plate unleashed the city-protecting formation's power, so Zhang Yuan summoned Xie Jingxin to protect him.
• An old man appeared in front of Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin and caught the Yin Plate with his bare hand.

Shangxian True Person arrived at the Imperial Academy, erased the killing talisman on the Yin Plate, and agreed to help Zhang Yuan confront the danger threatening the Bright Dawn Kingdom. After Qi Han fled and Zhang Yuan rescued Ruan Yu, he learned that Libationer Ruan was likely at the Library Pavilion and set out to kill the demon impersonating him.

• Shangxian True Person erased the killing talisman from the Yin Plate and greeted Zhang Yuan, promising to keep his presence secret.
• Shangxian True Person explained that he had come to the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm to pursue the First God Cult, and Zhang Yuan warned him that the cult's presence might be more serious than expected.
• Zhang Yuan asked Shangxian True Person to subdue Qi Han, but Qi Han grabbed Ruan Yu and used her to escape the suppression talisman.
• Shangxian True Person stopped the talisman at Zhang Yuan's request, and Zhang Yuan caught Ruan Yu and told her that the figures impersonating Qi Han and Libationer Ruan were demons.
• Ruan Yu told Zhang Yuan that Libationer Ruan had visited that morning and should be at the Library Pavilion, so Zhang Yuan resolved to go there and kill the demon impersonating him.

Zhang Yuan led Xie Jingxin and Shangxian True Person to the Upper Nether Academy, where he confronted Ruan Jiang and Ying Youzhuo over the Mysterious Yin Death Qi covering Roselight Capital. Ruan Jiang’s ambush failed when Xie Jingxin blocked the Black-Robed Demon King’s attack, leaving Zhang Yuan convinced he had anticipated the True Lord’s deception.

• Zhang Yuan gave Ruan Yu the Yin Plate and sent her to find Zhao Lian before setting out for the Upper Nether Academy with Xie Jingxin and Shangxian True Person.
• Zhang Yuan entered the Library Pavilion and found Ruan Jiang, Ying Youzhuo, a Nether Void corpse resembling Qi Han, and a Nether Annihilation Realm vengeful ghost.
• Zhang Yuan accused Ruan Jiang of covering Roselight Capital in Mysterious Yin Death Qi to pull the city into the Nether Bureau, and Ruan Jiang replied that he was both right and wrong.
• Zhang Yuan recognized Ying Youzhuo as the Nether-Knocking Lord and explained that he had suspected the false Qi Han because of his suspicious behavior.
• Ruan Jiang’s spatial power moved Zhang Yuan in front of the Black-Robed Demon King, but Xie Jingxin blocked its claw after Zhang Yuan had warned her to expect an attack.
• Zhang Yuan retreated and concluded that Ruan Jiang had used the City-Protecting Grand Formation and the plates as misdirection, but his preparations had kept him from being caught off guard.

Zhang Yuan assessed the odds against Ruan Jiang, the Black-Robed Demon King, and the Nether-Knocking Lord, then began the fight after his expected ally failed to appear. Xie Jingxin battled the strengthened Black-Robed Demon King while Zhang Yuan suspected the city held an entrance to the Demon King Palace.

• Zhang Yuan weighed his side’s chances against Ruan Jiang and the two Ninefold Negation Realm opponents, and called for the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King.
• Ruan Jiang explained that the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King was occupied, so Zhang Yuan prepared to fight without him.
• Xie Jingxin attacked the Black-Robed Demon King, who repelled her with a powerful palm strike and sent her crashing through the Scripture Pavilion.
• Zhang Yuan noticed the Demon King was stronger inside the city and suspected an entrance to the Demon King Palace was nearby.
• The Black-Robed Demon King challenged Zhang Yuan, but Shangxian True Person claimed he was no good at slaughter; Xie Jingxin then returned to attack, forcing the Demon King to change targets.

Zhang Yuan faced the Nether-Knocking Lord while Shangxian True Person and Xie Jingxin took on Ruan Jiang and the Black-Robed Demon King. A Sacred Feathered Arrow from the Wei Residence saved Zhang Yuan from the Nether-Knocking Lord’s attack, and he began refining the souls his enemy had summoned.

• Xie Jingxin pursued the Black-Robed Demon King, driving him away from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Shangxian True Person drew talismans to collapse the pavilion with phantasmal mountains, but Ruan Jiang shrank and swept them away before Shangxian True Person sealed the two of them in a separate space.
• The Nether-Knocking Lord offered Zhang Yuan the chance to become his disciple and later a Corpse Puppet, but Zhang Yuan refused.
• The Nether-Knocking Lord sent Qi Han and a peak nether annihilation vengeful ghost to attack Zhang Yuan.
• A Sacred Feathered Arrow flew from the Wei Residence and vaporized the attacking corpse and ghost, while the Nether-Knocking Lord used remnant souls to shield himself.
• Zhang Yuan used the Great Qian Primordial Soul-Refining Scripture and Soul-Gathering Lure to refine the Nether-Knocking Lord’s summoned souls.