Recaps

The three Six Heavenly Demon Kings ambushed [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] in the [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace], believing they had slain her. As powerful beings watched from beyond the palace, they revealed that the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan had provoked the Demon Kings and was far more than a master of killing swordsmanship.

• [Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King] attacked [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] while [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] froze the space around her and [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] empowered the saber.
• [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] cut through the sealed space and split the Blood Baleful Great Saber, foiling the apparent killing blow.
• [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] struck [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] from behind with an azure giant claw, tearing apart the palace plains and seemingly killing her.
• The three Demon Kings noticed the palace dome remained open and sensed powerful beings watching them from across several realms.
• The watchers discussed why the three Demon Kings had provoked Cui and noted that the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan was notorious for his formidable and shameless magical combat.

The Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord appeared alongside the Gengyao Great Void Star Lord, revealing that the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan had three incarnations wielding the Grand White Edge. She struck the Six Heavenly Demon Kings with a sword they could not prevent, and the chapter left them sensing that the attack carried something beyond sword qi.

• The Gengyao Great Void Star Lord descended from Primordial Era Venus and greeted Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao and the other two Six Heavenly Demon Kings.
• The Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord arrived, revealing herself as the third incarnation of the True Lord of the Eastern Ya Cui Clan and another Great Luo wielding the Grand White Edge.
• The Gengyao Great Void Star Lord asked who would strike, and the Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord chose to raise her Immortal Sword.
• The Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King urged the others to stop her, but Fatefall made her sword descend before they could act.
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao and the other two evaded most of the sword qi but suffered injuries, then sensed something beyond the strike and looked toward a familiar location.

[Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] revived instantly through [Heaven-Joining] and continued attacking the Demon Kings in [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace]. As [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] and [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] struggled to withstand her and the other two Great Luo, reinforcements arrived and a young girl called for the fighting to stop.

• [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] revived at full strength after [Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord] struck, revealing that [Heaven-Joining] restored her whenever her other two incarnations attacked.
• [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess] unleashed sword qi at the three Six Heavenly Demon Kings, and [Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King] fled [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace].
• [Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King] and [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] stayed to fight, while [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess], [Gengyao Great Void Star Lord], and [Haotian Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord] surrounded them with devastating sword attacks.
• Sword qi battered [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace] and disrupted the other Six Heavens, leaving the Demon Kings unable to find a way to counter their attackers.
• A young girl called for [Qiming] to stop fighting and talk, as [Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King] and [Miasma-Ravaging Silent-Qi Demon King] arrived as reinforcements.

Zhang Yuan and the others fell into the Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace after a sword qi attack tore through the upper Demon King Palace. He discussed the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess with Xie Jingxin, whose question about whose swordsmanship was better he carefully answered, while Ao Zhi was left gravely wounded by the attack.

• Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, Xie Jingxin, and the others fell from the Prison-Warden Soul-Pitying Palace into the Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace.
• Zhang Yuan noticed the sword qi had damaged his Sun-Moon Seven-Hue Robe and speculated that the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess had attacked the Six Heavens Demon King Palaces.
• Zhang Yuan considered sending the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess a message asking her to treat Wei Liu.
• Xie Jingxin asked whether her swordsmanship was better than the Goddess's, and Zhang Yuan praised Xie Jingxin while saying the Goddess was beyond his understanding.
• Ao Zhi collapsed with a severe sword wound and summoned the Xuanhuang Long Sword's Black-Yellow Qi to heal herself.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin faced the wounded Ao Zhi, whose Xuanhuang Long Sword kept her protected, until the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King appeared. The Fiend King seemed ready to help Zhang Yuan, but instead turned its Slaughter Divine Ability on him.

• Ao Zhi threatened Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin with the power of her Supreme Treasure, while Zhang Yuan offered to heal her with his Divine Abilities.
• Zhang Yuan attacked Ao Zhi with the Blood Baleful Great Saber, but the Xuanhuang Long Sword blasted him away.
• Zhang Yuan tried to rouse the saber, Heavenly Sorrow, but Liu Yihong threatened him through it instead of lending her power.
• The Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King appeared, and Zhang Yuan relied on its arrival to pressure Ao Zhi into surrendering.
• The Fiend King aimed its glowing palm at Zhang Yuan rather than Ao Zhi.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin fought the powerful figure impersonating the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' inside the [Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace], while he explained that the Outside World could not see into the isolated Six Heavens Yin Netherworld. As Zhang Yuan prepared to use the [Three Calamities Gourd], Ao Zhi launched a surprise attack with the Xuanhuang Long Sword.

• The 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' broke through Zhang Yuan's defenses and blasted him through several walls, leaving a bloody hole in his chest.
• The 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' told Zhang Yuan that the Six Heavens Yin Netherworld was isolated from the heavens and that lingering Sword Qi had cut off outside sight and contact.
• Xie Jingxin attacked with [Gazing into the Netherworld] and then Illuminating Netherworld, but the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' shattered both swords and blasted her back beside Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan reached for the [Three Calamities Gourd] but calmly told the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King' he did not need it yet.
• Ao Zhi attacked from behind with the enlarged Xuanhuang Long Sword, striking toward the 'Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King''s head.

Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi escaped the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King after Zhang Yuan’s sword strike failed to kill him. They hid in the palace, where Ao Zhi took human form, while Zhang Yuan searched for the Xuanhuang Long Sword and she grew wary of him.

• Zhang Yuan urged Ao Zhi and Xie Jingxin to flee after striking the Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King with the Xuanhuang Long Sword.
• The Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King emerged unharmed and ordered the palace ghost deities to kill the three intruders on sight.
• Ao Zhi carried Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin through the palace, smashing through walls until Zhang Yuan told her to stop and conceal their traces.
• Ao Zhi shrank into human form, and Zhang Yuan searched her for the Xuanhuang Long Sword.
• Xie Jingxin called Zhang Yuan a lecherous Daoist, making Ao Zhi freeze and regard him warily.

Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, and Xie Jingxin discovered a talking treasure chest that called itself [Wish Well], a Ghost Deity merchant capable of granting wishes for a price. Zhang Yuan wished to become a Demon King, but [Wish Well] claimed he would achieve that without its help, leaving the trio to consider what else to ask for.

• Zhang Yuan surveyed the enormous empty room while recovering from the Ancient True Lord's attack and warned himself not to meet that opponent again unprepared.
• Xie Jingxin spotted an ornate chest, and Ao Zhi sensed treasure inside it.
• Zhang Yuan struck the chest with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword], breaking its protective shield and prompting it to complain that he was rude.
• [Wish Well] introduced itself as a merchant from the [Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace] that could grant wishes in exchange for a price.
• Zhang Yuan wished to become a Demon King, and [Wish Well] said the wish was already effectively granted because he could become like the Six Heavenly Demon Kings on his own.

Zhang Yuan asked the Wishing Treasure Chest for rare materials needed to restore his spirit root, and it produced nine-heavens divine hemp soil and nine-heavens immortal peak jade. After discovering Zhang Yuan had effectively limitless lifespan, the chest accepted 99,990,000 years in exchange, and Zhang Yuan completed the trade.

• Zhang Yuan named the rare materials he needed, and the Wishing Treasure Chest said it possessed two of them.
• The Wishing Treasure Chest revealed the nine-heavens divine hemp soil and nine-heavens immortal peak jade, which Zhang Yuan confirmed were genuine.
• The chest explained that it accepted lifespan rather than gold, silver, or spirit stones and examined Zhang Yuan's remaining lifespan.
• The chest found that Zhang Yuan had 999,990,000 origin cycles of vitality and recognized him as a Great Yi.
• The Wishing Treasure Chest offered the two treasures for 99,990,000 years of lifespan, and Zhang Yuan agreed.
• The Wishing Treasure Chest handed Zhang Yuan the treasures and collected the lifespan through its divine ability and karma.

Zhang Yuan learned that the Nine Heavens lay in the Yin Netherworld Six Heavens and bought Spirit Swords for Xie Jingxin through [Wish Well]. The Wishing Treasure Chest revealed that Ao Zhi had only five days of lifespan left, and she turned to Zhang Yuan for help.

• Zhang Yuan asked [Wish Well] about the nine-heavens heavenly dragon fruit and nine-heavens heavenly heart fire, and learned they were on the First Mountain of the Nine Heavens, ruled by the [Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King].
• Zhang Yuan paid [Wish Well] eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight years of lifespan for the information.
• [Wish Well] checked Xie Jingxin's lifespan and found she had three hundred thousand years remaining.
• Xie Jingxin traded three thousand years of lifespan for twenty high-grade Spirit Swords to help restore [Gazing into the Netherworld].
• [Wish Well] checked Ao Zhi's lifespan and found she had only five days left, so Ao Zhi held out her hand to Zhang Yuan and asked him for help.

At Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace, Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess agreed to negotiate with the Demon Kings rather than continue a battle she could not win. Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King proposed that Zhang Yuan retrieve the Dragon Clan’s Supreme Treasure, leaving its fate to whether he could bring it out safely.

• Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King and Miasma-Ravaging Silent-Qi Demon King arrived, followed by Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King, bringing five of the Six Heavenly Demon Kings together.
• Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King urged Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess to talk, and Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess agreed after judging that she could not break through the Demon Kings’ defenses alone.
• Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King summoned a tea table, and the gathered Demon Kings and Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess’s companions sat down.
• Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess insisted she would obtain the sword, while Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord Haotian and Gengyao Great Void Star Lord supported her.
• Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King suggested that Zhang Yuan retrieve the sword from the six heavens and promised to help fight anyone who opposed him if he brought it out safely.
• Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess considered Zhang Yuan’s greed and concluded that the proposal could work.

Ao Zhi tried to borrow lifespan from Zhang Yuan, but he refused until she used an awkward attempt at seduction to persuade him. He agreed, creating debt Karma between them, which gave him protection from her while the debt remained unpaid.

• Zhang Yuan refused Ao Zhi's request to borrow lifespan, citing their past enmity and her reputation for breaking promises.
• Ao Zhi grabbed Zhang Yuan and accidentally hurt him with her immense strength while trying to seduce him into agreeing.
• Ao Zhi swore on Karma that she would repay the lifespan, and Zhang Yuan agreed to lend it to her.
• A strand of debt Karma appeared between Ao Zhi and Zhang Yuan, after which Ao Zhi went to [Wish Well].
• Xie Jingxin teased Zhang Yuan about seeming to enjoy Ao Zhi's advances, and Zhang Yuan realized the Karma would protect him from her until the debt was settled.

Zhang Yuan bought supplies for the injured group before preparing to refine treasures and advance his cultivation. A ghost deity named [Ling Axe] attacked them, forcing Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi to flee by different routes as another ghost deity’s growing iron chains pursued them.

• Ao Zhi bought supplies to replenish blood and vitality from [Wish Well], and Zhang Yuan paid her bill before buying more supplies, food, and pastries.
• Zhang Yuan planned to find a safe place to refine the Nine-Heavens Divine Hemp Soil and Nine-Heavens Immortal Peak Jade and break through his cultivation.
• [Ling Axe] ambushed the group with a Giant Axe and announced that he would kill the intruders by the Demon King's command.
• Ao Zhi burrowed underground while Zhang Yuan took Xie Jingxin into the sky, splitting their escape routes.
• [Ling Axe] summoned [Iron Chain], whose chains grew rapidly toward all three; Zhang Yuan shifted upward with Xie Jingxin, and they landed on the chains as they swept past.

While fleeing from three Ghost Deities, Zhang Yuan refined three heavenly treasures, restored his spirit root, and broke through to the Mahayana Realm. He defeated [Ling Axe] and [Iron Chain], then attacked the hidden Ghost Deity who had kept him from escaping.

• [Ling Axe] and [Iron Chain] pursued Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi, while a third Ghost Deity secretly closed the distance.
• After Ao Zhi warned him about the hidden pursuer, Zhang Yuan refined the heavenly oracle glazed flower, nine-heavens divine hemp soil, and nine-heavens immortal peak jade while dodging attacks.
• The treasures restored Zhang Yuan's spirit root, and their remaining medicinal potency helped him break through to the Mahayana Realm as he caught [Ling Axe]'s axe with one hand.
• Zhang Yuan used the Great Nether World-Swallowing Hand to knock [Ling Axe] down and severely injure [Iron Chain].
• Zhang Yuan located the hidden Ghost Deity with his Celestial Person divine sense and attacked them with the Great Nether World-Swallowing Hand and two slaughter divine abilities.

Zhang Yuan was nearly killed by an Ancient True Lord’s Incarnation, but the [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] intervened and destroyed it. After learning the dangers of the [Nether Annihilation Heaven Palace], Zhang Yuan chose to travel to the [Ninefold Calamity-Dispelling Palace].

• The Ancient True Lord revealed himself and pulled Zhang Yuan close, preventing him from escaping.
• The Ancient True Lord refused to reveal his identity and struck at Zhang Yuan, who prepared to call upon the [Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess].
• The [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] appeared and used Primal Death Qi to destroy the Ancient True Lord’s Incarnation.
• The [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] warned Zhang Yuan that Nether Heaven would severely weaken him and recommended the [Ninefold Calamity-Dispelling Palace].
• Zhang Yuan agreed, and the [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] transported him, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi to the [Ninefold Calamity-Dispelling Palace].

Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi entered the [Ninefold Calamity-Dispelling Palace], where Zhang Yuan’s power had surged enough to halt the storm and carry them safely into an abyss. They discovered a hidden Microcosm inhabited by cat-eared Spirit Monsters and landed before a grandfather and granddaughter.

• Ao Zhi and Xie Jingxin fell through the raging storm, but Zhang Yuan used [Spring Harmony Scenery] to still it and stop their descent.
• Zhang Yuan led Xie Jingxin onto a glacier, examined the abyss, and sensed life deep below as an unfamiliar Divine Sense probed toward him.
• Zhang Yuan used [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] to leap into the abyss with Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi followed after hesitating alone on the glacier.
• The three fell into a Microcosm with mountains, rivers, lakes, and signs of habitation, and Zhang Yuan controlled their landing to avoid destroying the area.
• A cat-eared grandfather and granddaughter saw the three arrive, and the granddaughter asked why people had fallen from the sky.

After landing in the Nine Heavens, Zhang Yuan learned from the cat demons Mao Dan and Mao Xiao that their village’s great shamans could be powerful cultivators and planned to meet them the next day. He decided to prepare traps while waiting, then asked Ao Zhi why she had followed him.

• Zhang Yuan questioned Mao Dan and Mao Xiao, who told him that this small realm was the Nine Heavens and that they knew of Immortal Peak Mountain but not Divine Hemp Mountain.
• Mao Dan explained that village great shamans went to cultivate at Immortal Peak Mountain and would gather the next day to take young adults behind the mountain.
• After hearing that the great shamans could supposedly destroy heaven and earth, Zhang Yuan chose not to enter the village and agreed to wait for their gathering.
• Mao Dan introduced himself and his granddaughter as Mao Dan and Mao Xiao, then took her back toward their village.
• Zhang Yuan watched the cat demons leave and planned to set traps for the great shamans before asking Ao Zhi why she had followed him.
• Ao Zhi awkwardly replied that she had only followed Zhang Yuan to have a look.

Zhang Yuan repaired Xie Jingxin’s life-bound sword and learned she had come to Six Heavens Demon King Palace to search for her lost family. When Ao Zhi revealed that she had caused the deaths of three dragon progenitors, Zhang Yuan’s promised connection to the East Sea Dragon Lord offered a possible way forward.

• Zhang Yuan used his magic power and celestial conceptual image to repair [Gazing into the Netherworld] and Illuminating Netherworld, but Xie Jingxin pointed out that he had placed one fragment incorrectly.
• Xie Jingxin fed spirit swords to [Gazing into the Netherworld], restoring most of the sword’s damage and returning her strength to the late Divine Ignition Realm.
• Xie Jingxin told Zhang Yuan that she had lost memories of a distant past and had come to Six Heavens Demon King Palace to search for her family.
• Ao Zhi said she did not want to return to the East Sea Dragon Clan, and Zhang Yuan offered to plead her case with the East Sea Dragon Lord.
• Ao Zhi admitted that she had caused the deaths of the other three progenitors.

Ao Zhi told Zhang Yuan how she helped bring about the deaths of three True Dragon ancestors, while Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin recovered and waited. They followed a cat-demon gathering to see the Great Shamans confront the God of No Return, who sent the demons back to their village as the shamans fled.

• Ao Zhi revealed that she had caused the deaths of two Primordial Unity Divine Saint ancestors and believed Ao Ying was still alive in the Six Heavens Demon King Palace.
• Zhang Yuan asked Ao Zhi about the Wenren Clan, but she knew nothing about them, then spent the night cultivating as Xie Jingxin and Ao Zhi recovered.
• The next day, Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin found their injuries largely healed and waited until a host of cat demons led by three Great Shamans climbed the mountain.
• Zhang Yuan concealed himself, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi, then followed the cat demons to the far side of the mountain.
• The Great Shamans summoned the God of No Return and declared that they had come to take the god to task, while the cat demons demanded their freedom.
• The God of No Return teleported the cat demons back to their village, and the three Great Shamans immediately fled in different directions.

Zhang Yuan and Ao Zhi encountered the God of No Return, who had captured three Great Shamans, including Ao Sha. Zhang Yuan challenged the God of No Return for directions to the First Mountain of the Nine Heavens, then overwhelmed him with an assault, while Ao Zhi killed Ao Sha.

• The God of No Return impaled the three fleeing Great Shamans with spears and sentenced them to three thousand years of punishment.
• Ao Zhi recognized the True Dragon Ao Sha and revealed her history of hatred toward him.
• The God of No Return detected a disturbance, and Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, and Xie Jingxin emerged from concealment after Zhang Yuan absorbed his Thunder Spear with [Thunder Pivot].
• Zhang Yuan challenged the God of No Return to a contest, wagering that victory would earn him directions to the First Mountain of the Nine Heavens.
• Zhang Yuan unleashed his treasures and Divine Abilities, shattered the God of No Return's purple Demon Flame shield, and made him vanish.
• Ao Zhi cut off Ao Sha's head after he tried to bargain for his life.

Ao Zhi killed the remaining prisoners after she and Zhang Yuan defeated Ao Sha, leaving them without anyone to guide them through the Nine Heavens Demon Prison. Before they could explore another route, the Demon King seized Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi and carried them away.

• Ao Zhi killed the pleading Cat Demon and Human Race cultivator, then dealt with the remaining Great Shamans.
• Zhang Yuan questioned Ao Zhi about killing their possible guides, and they decided to search for other cracks in the ice.
• Zhang Yuan clarified that he and Xie Jingxin would go together, while Ao Zhi could follow if she wished.
• A Black Vortex appeared as the Demon King reached into the Microcosm with a purple-haired arm.
• The Demon King seized Zhang Yuan, Xie Jingxin, and Ao Zhi and vanished into the Black Vortex.
• The Microcosm returned to normal, and the God [No Return] reappeared and bowed toward where the Demon King had emerged.

Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, and Xie Jingxin were thrown into a strange place that resembled Mount Great Mystery, where a Ghost Deity named Tai Xuan challenged them to a duel. Zhang Yuan recognized Tai Xuan as an impostor and let him make the first move.

• Zhang Yuan, Ao Zhi, and Xie Jingxin landed at the foot of Mount Great Mystery after the Demon King hurled them into the abyss.
• Zhang Yuan teased Ao Zhi about her weight and recognized the mountain as the ancient form of Sky Mountain.
• Tai Xuan appeared and claimed to be the Supreme Profound Mountain Venerable, but Zhang Yuan questioned his identity because the Venerable had died long ago.
• Tai Xuan admitted his name was Tai Xuan and said he was the mountain god guarding the gate, then proposed a duel in which each fighter took turns making one move.
• Zhang Yuan accepted the challenge and invited Tai Xuan to attack first.

The Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King abandoned negotiations and vanished from the Sixth Heaven, while Zhang Yuan defeated Tai Xuan at the foot of Mount Great Mystery. Ziluo then recognized Zhang Yuan as the Seventh Sun-Eroding Demon King and invited him up the mountain.

• Dipper-Piercing Immortal Lord Haotian confronted the Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King, who admitted to acting against Zhang Yuan before vanishing from the Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace.
• The Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King revealed that she had never intended to negotiate and had used the talks to delay the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess and her companions.
• Tai Xuan attacked Zhang Yuan at the foot of Mount Great Mystery, but Zhang Yuan's Ninefold Harmonizing Qi blocked the punch.
• Zhang Yuan unleashed his techniques against Tai Xuan and left him unconscious in a crater.
• Ziluo descended from Mount Great Mystery, recognized Zhang Yuan as the Seventh Sun-Eroding Demon King, and invited him to come up for a talk.

Zhang Yuan and his companions climbed Mount Great Mystery after the Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King summoned them. At the summit, Zhang Yuan mistook the dragon maiden who greeted him for an impostor and told her to change back.

• Ziluo told Zhang Yuan that someone had invited them to the summit, and Zhang agreed to go meet the Mysterious Calamity-Bearing Ominous Demon King.
• As they climbed, Zhang Yuan revealed that he had once tried and failed to claim Mount Great Mystery’s Golden Position, leading Ziluo to suspect he had caused the Supreme Profound Mountain Venerable’s fall.
• Near the summit, Zhang Yuan warned Ao Zhi that he might not be able to protect her, then continued upward with Xie Jingxin.
• At the summit, Ao Ying appeared before Zhang Yuan, who assumed she was a fake and told her to change back.

Zhang Yuan brought Ao Zhi before Ao Ying, who teased him with the promise of an Ancestral Dragon's Hand before confronting Ao Zhi over her desertion and theft of the clan’s Supreme Treasure. Ao Zhi defended herself by accusing the Dragon Clan of having no place for her, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Ao Zhi warned Zhang Yuan that the woman before him was the genuine Ao Ying, and Zhang Yuan hastily explained away his touch as brushing dust from her shoulder.
• Ao Ying praised Zhang Yuan for bringing Ao Zhi and offered him an Ancestral Dragon's Hand, then teased him when he tried to refuse.
• Ao Ying turned her attention to Ao Zhi and demanded to know what punishment she deserved for deserting in wartime and stealing the clan's Supreme Treasure.
• Ao Zhi admitted the Dragon Clan had ostracized and mistreated her, then challenged Ao Ying's accusation by asking what crime she could be guilty of.