Recaps

Li Fuchan gathered pure Three Qi from aperture opening-tier Ming Beasts and fashioned a convincing qi-form “true” body with his spirit talismans and Brow Peak. After completing his preparations, he sent the false body to approach Jia Hua and turned to Three Nothing for help with his next move.

• Li Fuchan killed a wild Ming Beast and discovered the remains of Li Si and other victims inside it.
• Li Fuchan searched the outskirts of Black Mountain and killed two aperture opening-tier Ming Beasts, storing their Three Qi in the Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring.
• Li Fuchan combined the Three Qi with the Mirage Pavilion, Flying Glare, and Qi Offering spirit talismans to build a lifelike qi-form body.
• Li Fuchan placed Brow Peak between the body's brows, using the three lights within it to give the body supernatural qualities despite its lack of cultivation.
• Li Fuchan sent the completed body to approach Jia Hua, then addressed Three Nothing as he prepared to act.

Jia Hua manipulated Li Fuchan into cultivating Li Thunder and hunting Ming Beasts for the Peaceful Way Abbey, while reporting his scheme to Quan Yong. When Jia Hua accompanied Li Fuchan to the Hunting Grounds, Li Fuchan appeared in a display of powerful thunder arts, leaving Jia Hua to face the consequences of the Abbey’s treatment of him.

• Jia Hua secretly investigated an Ancient Art Cultivator, then used Mirror Flowers and Moon in Water to question him and teach him the Purple Firmament Thunder-Script Treasure Talisman Register.
• Jia Hua arranged for the man to cultivate Li Thunder, which weakened his Three Lights Method and bound him to the Peaceful Way Abbey.
• Jia Hua reported his investigation and plan to Quan Yong, who approved; Jia Hua then sent the man to the Hunting Grounds with an Abbey token.
• The man killed twelve aperture opening-level Ming Beasts but avoided outer scenery-level beasts, so Jia Hua pressured him to fight them; after he was injured, Jia Hua had him recover with blood qi and sent him back.
• Jia Hua accompanied the man to the Hunting Grounds, but a thunderous battle began nearby and Li Fuchan appeared in the air wielding Light-Deceiving and displaying powerful Li Thunder.
• Jia Hua realized the Peaceful Way Abbey had provoked Li Fuchan by breaking its word and trying to recruit him, and lamented that Quan Yong had left him with the trouble.

Jia Hua tried to contain the fallout from Li Fuchan’s killings by creating a Golden-Armored Corpse to hunt Ming Beasts, but Li Fuchan struck again and prompted him to seek a spirit artifact to counter the lightning. Li Fuchan anticipated Jia Hua’s response and reviewed his cultivation gains while considering the need for a movement technique.

• Jia Hua heard observers discuss Li Fuchan’s attack, reported the incident to his senior brother, and found Xu Xuan increasingly ruthless after achieving Aperture Opening.
• Jia Hua intercepted a man who had discovered Xu Xuan’s visits to Black Mountain, strengthened him with Blood Qi, and transformed him into a Golden-Armored Corpse.
• Jia Hua sent the Golden-Armored Corpse into the hunting grounds, but another Thunderbolt struck two months later, driving Jia Hua to request the Contrary Thunder spirit artifact from Flying Yellow Mountain.
• Li Fuchan burned the spent Mirage Pavilion Spirit Talismans and guessed Jia Hua would seek the Contrary Thunder artifact to counter him.
• Li Fuchan assessed his progress toward mastering his Lightning-Struck Wood Yang Aspect and Thunder Escape Sword Art, then concluded that he most needed a movement technique.

Li Fuchan learned that he had become karmically entangled with the Ghost of the Five Thieves and that killing one could bring immense blessings as well as the attention of dangerous Purple Mansion cultivators. He chose not to flee the Northern Lands yet, hoping to pursue Changze, and suspected the Peaceful Way Abbey might be using Black Mountain to nurture a thief.

• A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales warned Li Fuchan that a Purple Mansion Lord had glanced at him and Three Nothing explained his connection to the Ghost of the Five Thieves.
• Three Nothing told Li Fuchan that killing one of the Four Thieves could grant extraordinary blessings but would attract Purple Mansion cultivators seeking to exploit him.
• Three Nothing offered Li Fuchan a hidden route through the Unseen Heavens to escape overseas, but Li Fuchan refused to leave while he still had a chance to obtain what he wanted.
• Li Fuchan asked whether the Peaceful Way Abbey planned to use Black Mountain to nurture a thief and cultivate someone to kill it.
• Three Nothing suspected the Peaceful Way Abbey could divine the thieves and their hunters through an inherited Shi Water treasure or art.

Li Fuchan recognized Three Nothing’s possible manipulation and decided to secure the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact after investigating Huaishuo Town. At Peaceful Way Abbey, Quan Yong arrived and awakened Jia Hua to the fact that he had been manipulated into pursuing the artifact, then left to deliver it to Gao Huan.

• Li Fuchan reasoned that Three Nothing might have helped him see through Fengci’s obstruction and become entangled with Ghost, then sealed A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales and stored it away.
• Li Fuchan decided to investigate Huaishuo Town, suspecting Jia Hua had found someone there to hunt the thieves.
• Quan Yong appeared before Jia Hua, who mistakenly believed his senior brother had brought the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact to help drive Li Fuchan away.
• Quan Yong filled the breach in Jia Hua’s Life Force and woke him to the fact that someone had hooked and swayed him into neglecting the abbey’s plans.
• Quan Yong told Jia Hua to keep watch over Black Mountain and Xu Xuan while they waited for Gao Huan, then departed to return to the abbey after learning Southern Peak had emerged from seclusion.

Gao Huan learned that the Yuchi Household and Mu Household threatened White Forest Town and accepted command of its frontier troops despite Gao Shuying’s fears. As he rode there with Qifu Zhen, he reflected that the dangerous assignment could advance his ancient cultivation art, though he wondered whether the Gao Household was using him as a weapon or expendable pawn.

• Gao Huan told Gao Shuying that Gao Gongjin had ordered him to command the defense of White Forest Town against the Yuchi Household, the Mu Household, and rampaging wild beasts.
• Gao Shuying tried to persuade Gao Gongjin to rescind the order, but Gao Huan reassured her and promised to return safely.
• Gao Huan led thirteen hundred troops toward White Forest Town the next day, accompanied by Qifu Zhen, who warned that the rival households might turn against them.
• Gao Huan considered how the dangers at White Forest Town could help him cultivate the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art and wondered whether the Gao Household had made him expendable.
• Gao Huan regretted leaving without naming his unborn child.

Li Fuchan recognized Gao Huan as He Liuhun and followed the troops while reflecting on the Peaceful Way Abbey’s plot. At White Forest Town, Gao Huan arranged for troops to defend the town and shelter refugees before taking Elite Cavalry to deal with the growing wild-beast threat.

• Li Fuchan identified Gao Huan as He Liuhun, checked himself for signs of a plot, and followed the marching troops.
• Gao Huan and Qifu Zhen arrived at White Forest Town, where Gao Changtong welcomed them and reported no major moves by the Yuchi Household or the Mu Household.
• Gao Changtong told Gao Huan that wild beasts had begun attacking nearby villages and that hundreds of Refugees had fled to town.
• Gao Huan left a thousand troops to strengthen the town and shelter refugees, then departed with Qifu Zhen and three hundred Elite Cavalry to hunt the beasts.
• Gao Changtong rebuked his uncle for criticizing Gao Huan and decided against competing with him, while reflecting that Gao Huan’s green eyes would prevent him from being entrusted with an important position.

Li Fuchan realized Quan Yong might have uncovered his identity and was coming to kill him, but he chose to stay and face him rather than flee. He dropped his disguise and rode toward White Forest Town, intending to risk everything against the Ghost.

• Gao Huan hunted berserk Ming Beasts with Qifu Zhen, and Li Fuchan inferred that Gao Huan was training in an ancient art to prepare for a future confrontation with Xu Xuan.
• Li Fuchan considered obtaining Gao Huan's ancient art, but A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales warned him that someone from Peaceful Way Abbey was using mediums to reach him through his life force.
• Li Fuchan suspected that Quan Yong had recognized his identity earlier and was now coming to eliminate him as a threat to Peaceful Way Abbey's plans.
• Three Nothing urged Li Fuchan to flee overseas, warning that Quan Yong was the Ghost and was far too powerful to defeat.
• Li Fuchan refused to run, removed his concealment, and rode toward White Forest Town to confront Quan Yong.

Gao Huan and Qifu Zhen killed an aperture-opened tiger, and Qifu Zhen recalled the monster that had once eaten Li Si. Back in White Forest Town, Gao Huan opened his door to a blue-robed man who claimed to be an old acquaintance from the Demon Cave.

• Gao Huan stopped the troops and explained that the tiger had opened its apertures before killing it with his bow and the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art.
• Qifu Zhen confessed that the tiger's humanlike eyes reminded him of the monster that had eaten Li Si, their savior.
• Gao Huan remembered the man who had rescued them from the Demon Cave and wondered where he was now.
• After returning to White Forest Town and dealing with Gao Changtong, Gao Huan heard a knock at his quarters and sensed that Qifu Zhen was not at the door.
• A blue-robed man opened the door and greeted Gao Huan as an old acquaintance from the Demon Cave.

Li Fuchan visited Gao Huan and traded answers about the Gao Household’s plans for Gao Huan’s Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art. After revealing information about Gao Huan’s role, Li Fuchan learned that Quan Yong’s killing intent had risen and prepared to act by his own methods.

• Li Fuchan visited Gao Huan and said he had come to make another trade.
• Li Fuchan offered to answer Gao Huan’s questions about the Gao Household in exchange for the ancient art he cultivated.
• Gao Huan wrote out the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art from memory, and Li Fuchan confirmed its contents.
• Li Fuchan transmitted information to Gao Huan through illuminating light, leaving him shocked, then departed.
• Li Fuchan asked Three Nothing where Quan Yong was and learned that Quan Yong’s killing intent had risen sharply.
• Li Fuchan decided that he and Quan Yong would each use their own methods.

Gao Huan reported Li Fuchan’s visit to Quan Yong, who pursued him into the Hunting Grounds. There, Li Fuchan mastered the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art further, rejected Three Nothing’s advice to seek a Secret Seal, and attacked two sword cultivators after declaring his intent to punish those who practiced Blood-Consuming Cultivation.

• Gao Huan told Quan Yong that Li Fuchan had asked him for the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art, and Quan Yong vanished after considering killing him.
• Li Fuchan evaded Quan Yong by entering the Hunting Grounds, where he killed an Outer Scenery Ming Beast in close combat and absorbed its Three Qi into the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art.
• Qu Chuling of Yu Sword Gate and Jiang Chengzi of Boyue Mountain confronted Li Fuchan and ordered him to leave the Hunting Grounds.
• Three Nothing urged Li Fuchan to pursue a nearby Secret Seal, but Li Fuchan refused, saying he trusted only himself.
• Li Fuchan unleashed Li Thunder and his other powers against Qu Chuling and Jiang Chengzi, then declared that he would bind fiends and punish demons before striking them with Golden Thunder.

Li Fuchan fought Jiang Chengzi and Qu Chuling to stop them from disrupting the Hunting Grounds’ flow of fortune. He killed Jiang Chengzi with Golden Thunder, while Qu Chuling escaped to seek help.

• Jiang Chengzi and Qu Chuling joined forces against Li Fuchan, hoping to drive him from the Hunting Grounds.
• Li Fuchan blocked their attacks with his saber, the Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring, and the thirty-six Dark Shadows.
• Jiang Chengzi shielded Qu Chuling from a thunder strike, suffered a grievous wound, and urged him to flee for help.
• Qu Chuling escaped as Jiang Chengzi charged into the thunderclouds to hold Li Fuchan off.
• Jiang Chengzi confronted Li Fuchan over their unequal lives and his use of Blood-Consuming Cultivation, then died beneath the Golden Thunder.
• Li Fuchan picked up Jiang Chengzi’s scholar’s cap and reflected that he had killed to survive just as Jiang Chengzi had.

Li Fuchan hunted through the Hunting Grounds, then used a group of women and a hidden cultivator to lure out another target. After killing the middle-aged cultivator with lightning and fire, he declared that he would draw out and execute the evil spirits, and his Dharma Power surged.

• Li Fuchan spent five days killing Ming Beasts and advanced the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art to the second marquis.
• Li Fuchan found five women fighting an Outer Scenery-level Ming Beast and killed it with Golden Thunder.
• The women secretly discussed claiming the treasure inside the Ming Beast, while Li Fuchan overheard their plans.
• Li Fuchan called out a middle-aged cultivator who had been hiding nearby with a formation, then tricked him into revealing himself.
• Li Fuchan engulfed the middle-aged cultivator in cinnabar fire and Golden Thunder, declared that he would draw out and execute the evil spirits, and felt his Dharma Power grow stronger.

Li Fuchan survived an ambush by Jiang Gu and other Immortal Sect disciples, then realized Three Nothing had maneuvered him toward a Secret Seal. After confronting Three Nothing about its plans, he entered the Secret Seal anyway.

• Jiang Gu blinded Li Fuchan with the Hidden-Inaudible Bone-Illuminating Mirror while four other attackers surrounded him.
• Guided by Three Nothing, Li Fuchan killed Qu Cong and Jiang Gu, took the mirror, and fled as Quan Yong arrived and pursued him.
• Quan Yong weakened Li Fuchan with Azure Rain, but Three Nothing burned a page of A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales to restore his speed.
• Li Fuchan stopped near the Secret Seal and accused Three Nothing of arranging events to lead him there, including his ties to the Peaceful Way Abbey and Quan Yong.
• Three Nothing admitted its plans had been disrupted but offered to help Li Fuchan pursue his own scheme, and Li Fuchan plunged into the Secret Seal.

Li Fuchan entered an ancient Secret Seal library and learned from Three Nothing that he needed to produce a Bat King without harming the bats. He used a powder to make the male bats mate with and dominate one another, beginning his attempt to fulfill the library’s condition.

• Li Fuchan entered the Secret Seal and defended himself from a swarm of bats with lightning.
• Three Nothing identified the library as belonging to the ancient Great Zhi Pivot and described its arts for safeguarding Life Force.
• Li Fuchan realized he had to produce a Bat King without injuring any of the bats, while avoiding pursuit by Quan Yong.
• Li Fuchan used powder and illuminating light to make a large male bat mate with a female.
• Li Fuchan dusted other large male bats with powder, and one lust-crazed bat pinned a rival beneath it.

Li Fuchan obtained the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra and entered a trial centered on a chained Stone Stele. Trapped in an illusory bamboo grove, he realized Three Nothing had steered him toward the stele to make him cultivate the sutra, which concealed a trap.

• Li Fuchan made the Red-Eyed Male Bat defeat the other males and become king, revealing a passage to a jade slip.
• Li Fuchan found the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra, judged it useful for safeguarding his Life Force, and put the jade slip away.
• Li Fuchan encountered a chained Stone Stele that Three Nothing said could answer questions but would transform liars or those who refused to answer into chains.
• Li Fuchan tried to skirt the Stone Stele, but its chains pulled him into an illusory Purple-and-White Bamboo Grove.
• Li Fuchan considered which offenses might apply to him and realized Three Nothing had lured him toward the stele to make him cultivate the sutra and expose his secrets.

Li Fuchan resisted Three Nothing’s pressure to practice the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra, then escaped the bamboo grove before learning Three Nothing’s scheme. Outside the Hunting Grounds, Quan Yong entered the Secret Seal, and Qu Chengong and Gu Tong followed to confront Li Fuchan.

• Three Nothing urged Li Fuchan to abandon his attempt to change Li Thunder and practice the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra, but Li Fuchan chose to practice it and asked the Stone Stele about Three Nothing’s scheme.
• Three Nothing interrupted the Stone Stele before it could answer, and Li Fuchan returned to the stele, suspecting that the sutra concealed a deep trap.
• Qu Chengong arrived at the Hunting Grounds and learned from Gu Tong that Quan Yong had entered the Secret Seal to pursue Li Fuchan.
• Qu Chengong objected to Quan Yong acting freely, but Gu Tong recounted Quan Yong’s warning that Li Fuchan’s death was necessary for the Southern Return.
• Qu Chengong and Gu Tong entered the Hunting Grounds, where Qu Chengong led Qu Chuling into the Secret Seal to join Quan Yong’s pursuit of Li Fuchan.

Inside the Secret Seal, Qu Chuling accidentally killed the Bat King and freed the bats from Li Fuchan’s aphrodisiac powder. Quan Yong rejected Gu Tong’s cautious approach and prepared to flood the chamber with rain to expose Li Fuchan, leaving Gu Tong alarmed and Qu Chengong wondering what they had forgotten.

• Qu Chuling instinctively struck down the Bat King, and the bats kowtowed to him in gratitude rather than attacking.
• Quan Yong and Gu Tong discovered that Li Fuchan had used aphrodisiac powder to make the bats compete for the Bat King’s position.
• Gu Tong planned to proceed cautiously and rely on Qu Chuling’s connection to the Secret Seal, but Quan Yong warned against giving Li Fuchan time to escape and grow stronger.
• Quan Yong began summoning rain to expose Li Fuchan, while Gu Tong tried to stop him from acting recklessly inside the Secret Seal.
• Qu Chengong quietly asked whether they had forgotten something as Quan Yong and Gu Tong faced off.

Gu Tong and Qu Chengong learned that Quan Yong possessed the Clear-Sight Subtlety Mirror and agreed to let him use it against Li Fuchan. Quan Yong began spreading Azure Rain through the Secret Seal, while Li Fuchan noticed something amiss.

• Qu Chengong warned Gu Tong that Quan Yong was a Thunder Cultivator whose death could provoke Welcome Ying Isle, and Gu Tong realized they had been manipulated into the affair.
• Quan Yong revealed that he possessed the Clear-Sight Subtlety Mirror and offered to remove the hidden danger afflicting Gu Tong and Qu Chengong if they swore a Spirit Oath of secrecy.
• Quan Yong used the mirror to claim Li Fuchan was not a disciple of Welcome Ying Isle, then proposed killing him with contrary thunder to avoid blame.
• Gu Tong and Qu Chengong agreed to let Quan Yong proceed, and Quan Yong began conjuring Azure Rain that would spread through the Secret Seal and kill Li Fuchan.
• Azure Rain formed pools beneath Quan Yong and Qu Chuling, while Li Fuchan noticed something amiss deep in the Secret Seal.

Li Fuchan confronted Three Nothing about its schemes as Quan Yong and his allies closed in, then left the cave to face Quan Yong in the Secret Seal. Quan Yong revealed his ghostly nature and explained how their karmic entanglement had led him to hunt Li Fuchan, leaving them on the verge of a fight.

• Li Fuchan questioned Three Nothing’s motives and refused to trust its promise that he could escape overseas.
• Three Nothing admitted it had influenced Jia Hua to offer the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact and had helped deepen Li Fuchan’s karmic ties to Peaceful Way Abbey.
• Li Fuchan drew Light-Deceiving and plunged into the Azure Rain, while Quan Yong used a puddle to travel toward him and Qu Chengong and Gu Tong followed.
• Quan Yong found Li Fuchan behind the Stone Stele in the Secret Seal and revealed his eerie, ghostlike appearance.
• Li Fuchan identified Xu Xuan as a demon of the five thieves, and Quan Yong explained that he had pursued Li Fuchan because their karma made him fear Li Fuchan’s growing power.

Li Fuchan invoked “Li Thunder” and attacked Quan Yong with righteous fury, but Quan Yong’s Turbid Water overwhelmed him and left him falling to his death. As Qu Chengong and Gu Tong joined the attack, an unknown voice asked a senior what they were looking forward to.

• Three Nothing watched as Li Fuchan unexpectedly denounced Quan Yong and revealed that his past killings had drawn “Li Thunder’s” attention.
• Li Fuchan roared that he would summon “Li Thunder” to execute all who practiced Blood-Consuming Cultivation and ate human flesh.
• Quan Yong absorbed Li Fuchan’s thunderbolt, turned it into water, and unleashed Azure Rain that gathered into Turbid Water.
• The Turbid Water annihilated Li Fuchan’s body and thunder, causing him to fall as Qu Chengong and Gu Tong struck at him.
• A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales wondered whether Li Fuchan was finally going to die, and an unseen voice asked a senior what they were looking forward to.

Li Fuchan endured Quan Yong’s corruption while probing Three Nothing’s hidden purpose and threatening to use Slay the Thief’s karma against Xu Xuan. The chapter ended with lightning and fire engulfing A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales inside his Storage Bag.

• Li Fuchan resisted the Turbid Water and rushed toward the Stone Stele, whose Iron Chains blocked Gu Tong’s and Qu Chengong’s attacks before shattering.
• Quan Yong considered approaching the Stone Stele, but Gu Tong saw through his attempt to goad the others into testing it and explained that Quan Yong feared a trap.
• Quan Yong used the Azure Rain to corrode Li Fuchan’s legs and weaken his weapons while Li Fuchan continued circulating the Fu Ying Contemplation and Perception Sutra.
• Li Fuchan asked Quan Yong whether his cultivation could bear two shares of Slay the Thief’s karma, then implied he would use them to collect interest before dying.
• Three Nothing deduced that Li Fuchan had left a new Mirage Pavilion outside and planned to kill Xu Xuan, but warned that his false body could not overcome Jia Hua’s protection.
• Li Fuchan told Three Nothing to keep watching as lightning and fire erupted around A Plea for Thirty-Six Years of Romantic Tales in his Storage Bag.

Gao Huan secretly met Li Fuchan in a cave and received cultivation insights and a pill before Li Fuchan vanished. Li Fuchan then used a hidden trick to empower his false body, recovered the damaged Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring, and prepared to reach false outer scenery near Black Mountain.

• Gao Huan arranged for Qifu Zhen to impersonate him in White Forest Town while he slipped away at midnight.
• Gao Huan returned Li Fuchan’s talisman, and Li Fuchan gave him Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art insights, a method for drawing out the Ming Beast’s Three Qi, and a pill that could enable false outer scenery.
• Li Fuchan used Jiao-Driving Lightning-Binding to make his false body vanish toward Black Mountain, after explaining how he had seized the register qi within Light-Deceiving.
• Li Fuchan found the damaged Twenty-Month Azure Fish Ring in Black Mountain’s Hunting Grounds and drew on its stored Three Qi to cultivate the Wudu Seven Marquis Military Strike Art up to the Third Marquis.
• Li Fuchan took out the Flying Earthworm’s Ancient Pill to combine the Three Qi into Dharma Power and raise his false body toward false outer scenery.

Li Fuchan destroyed Xu Xuan’s demonic body and forced Quan Yong to use the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact, hoping the crisis would make Li Thunder answer him. Though Quan Yong, Qu Chengong, Gu Tong, and Three Nothing overwhelmed him, Li Fuchan retained a glimmer of clarity and told Three Nothing to keep watching.

• Jia Hua sensed trouble at Gao Huan’s mark and rushed toward White Forest Town, while Li Fuchan broke into the Xu estate’s secret chamber.
• Li Fuchan attacked Xu Xuan’s Flesh Furnace with lightning and black flames, then spent his final pill and sacrificed himself in an explosion that left the chamber in ashes.
• Quan Yong learned that Li Fuchan had killed Xu Xuan and seized Changze, then decided to use the Contrary Thunder Spirit Artifact against him.
• Three Nothing tried to delay Quan Yong, but Quan Yong saw through the interference and struck Li Fuchan with the artifact, breaking down his Li Thunder Dao Attainment.
• Qu Chengong, Gu Tong, and Three Nothing attacked and bound Li Fuchan, but he spoke through the restraint and told Three Nothing to keep watching.

Li Fuchan recovered the memory of his Spirit Oath with Three Nothing and realized Three Nothing had erased it while scheming to obtain his register qi and learn why he did not fear death. As Qu Chengong's sword essence descended, Three Nothing moved to protect him, but an abrupt change interrupted its intervention.

• Li Fuchan remembered that he and Three Nothing had sworn an oath requiring him to cultivate wandering gold and help Three Nothing escape in exchange for its aid and a strand of register qi.
• Li Fuchan concluded that Three Nothing had erased his memory of the oath to pursue his register qi and investigate his unusual relationship with death.
• Li Fuchan recalled testing Three Nothing's ability to influence minds through its manipulation of Jia Hua and inferred that it had also tampered with his memories.
• Qu Chengong's sword essence descended, and Three Nothing intervened to protect Li Fuchan because he could now challenge how the Spirit Oath was interpreted.
• An abrupt change occurred before Three Nothing could act.