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Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui sealed Love Entwined, then joined the search for Lien, whose bow and arrows they found abandoned in a cave. Mei Wu revealed her deception and attacked the group, but Toothless and Little Fatty triggered an avalanche; trapped in the cave, Dongfang Minghui was seized by a bewitched Mu Sheng while Mei Wu demanded the Terrain Map and a way out.

• Qian Wanyu, Qian Ziyan, and Qian Yiling sealed Love Entwined to conceal the living beings inside it, and Qian Wanyu told Dongfang Minghui to refuse Mei Wu if she tried to isolate her again.
• After the snow stopped, Qian Wanyu led Dongfang Minghui and their companions to search for Lien, and they found his bow and arrows in a dry cave with no signs of a fight.
• Qian Wanyu realized Mei Wu had drugged the group, and Mei Wu dropped her disguise, demanded the Terrain Map and Dongfang Minghui, and attacked them.
• Qian Wanyu fought Mei Wu while Toothless and Little Fatty’s heat melted the surrounding snow, triggering an avalanche that sealed the cave entrance.
• Mei Wu used Mu Sheng to seize Dongfang Minghui and threatened her until Qian Wanyu offered the Terrain Map and began gathering lightning to blast through the snow.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui escaped the avalanche-blocked cave with Toothless’s help, rescued the feverish Lien, and learned that Lien dreamed of an ice coffin before waking on the snowy mountain. Qian Wanyu proposed returning to the place from his dream to investigate, but Toothless exposed people hiding in the snow before they could set out.

• Qian Wanyu killed Mei Wu after Little Lecher freed Mu Sheng from her control, then questioned Mu Sheng and kept him bound while he recovered.
• Qian Wanyu broke through the snowballs blocking the cave entrance, and Toothless melted a passage that let everyone escape into the snow-covered landscape.
• Dongfang Minghui revived Little Sprout with her blood essence, and Mu Sheng warned her that she might have been feeding the plant too much.
• The group found Lien unconscious with a fever, sheltered him in a tent inside a snow hole, and cared for him until he woke.
• Lien described dreaming that he lay in an ice coffin and then waking on a snowy peak before an avalanche swept him down the mountain.
• Qian Wanyu suggested returning to the place in Lien’s dream, but Toothless roared at people hiding in the snow and forced them to reveal themselves.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui negotiated with a group seeking the Dragon Clan Lands, then survived an avalanche and agreed to verify the group’s Eye of Truth. The genuine Eye projected a complete map when combined with Toothless’s Dragon Core, and Dongfang Minghui began copying it as the chapter ended.

• Qian Wanyu confronted the black-clad group, which offered to cooperate in exchange for Toothless’s Dragon Core and claimed to possess the genuine Eye of Truth.
• Qian Wanyu, Dongfang Minghui, and Toothless agreed to cooperate after deciding to learn why the group wanted to find the Dragon Clan Lands.
• Toothless accused Xiao Miao of leading the pursuers to them and sent him away, but Xiao Miao later set fire to their cave and Toothless rescued him as an avalanche struck.
• Dongfang Minghui gave Xiao Miao a Fire Lotus Seed, and Toothless reluctantly let him stay with them.
• After the avalanche, Qian Wanyu challenged the old man to prove his Eye of Truth was genuine, and he combined it with the Dragon Core to project a complete map.
• Dongfang Minghui quickly sketched the projected map while Qian Wanyu studied it.

Qian Wanyu’s group found Qian Yiling, Qian Ziyan, and the badly injured Zhi Lan after following the Eye of Truth, then treated Zhi Lan and resumed their journey up Ice Lotus Mountain. During the night, Lien slipped away into the storm, and Qian Wanyu followed him up the mountain.

• Qian Wanyu used the genuine Eye of Truth to lead the group to a bloodstained scrap of Zhi Lan’s clothing, and Toothless tracked its scent to a hidden shelter.
• Qian Wanyu returned the Eye of Truth to the old man and descended into the hole, where she found Qian Yiling, Qian Ziyan, and Zhi Lan.
• Dongfang Minghui removed an ice shard from Zhi Lan’s wound and treated her, while Qian Wanyu helped keep her warm through the night.
• Zhi Lan woke the next morning, and the group set off toward Ice Lotus Mountain after allowing her to rest.
• Lien left the group’s nighttime shelter and hurried up Ice Lotus Mountain, and Qian Wanyu followed him through the snow.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu investigated Lien’s strange nighttime behavior on Ice Lotus Mountain, where they found an ice cave with two coffins and learned Lien might have a forgotten connection to the mountain. The group took shelter in a narrow crevice, and a mysterious pounding outside drew Qian Wanyu, Qian Ziyan, and Toothless away as the chapter ended.

• Dongfang Minghui woke from a cold, foggy dream calling for Qian Wanyu and learned that Qian Wanyu had followed Lien out for several hours.
• Qian Wanyu entered an ice cave on Ice Lotus Mountain, found two Ice Coffins, and bound Lien after he woke and called her Mother.
• Lien remembered the cave as a place from his dreams, and Dongfang Minghui suspected he had lived on Ice Lotus Mountain as a child.
• Qian Wanyu found a sheltered mountain crevice for the group, and Little Fatty grew taller so she could squeeze inside.
• A heavy pounding approached their shelter, so Qian Wanyu and Qian Ziyan went out to investigate, followed by Toothless.
• Dongfang Minghui stayed inside to guard the others, and Mu Sheng revealed that Little White had drugged the old man and his followers to make them sleep.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu searched Ice Lotus Mountain for Toothless, discovered a man inside an Ice Coffin, and then led their group through a hidden passage toward the Dragon Clan Lands. The passage’s carved patterns began affecting the travelers, and Dongfang Minghui realized the group was in danger just as Lien turned threateningly on her.

• Dongfang Minghui climbed toward the summit after Toothless’s roar, where Qian Wanyu found her freezing and brought her along to search for Toothless.
• At the summit, Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found a man in an Ice Coffin; he fought Qian Wanyu, escaped by leaping from the cliff, and left the pair to return to the others.
• Qian Wanyu concealed the encounter, and the group chose a newly discovered hidden passage through the mountain as a route toward the Dragon Clan Lands.
• Little Lecher scouted three forks and found each dangerous, so Dongfang Minghui proposed taking the middle passage; Qian Wanyu then arranged for Toothless to scout ahead.
• Qian Wanyu crushed a moonstone against the passage wall, while Dongfang Minghui copied the carved patterns and noticed the travelers becoming distracted by them.
• Dongfang Minghui found Lien carving the same patterns into his bow, and Lien turned viciously toward her when she questioned his fascination.

Qian Wanyu realized the group had been trapped inside a strange vessel that might be the legendary Longevity Cauldron, and its awakening fire began burning away anything that touched its walls. As the old man attacked them and the passage turned deadly, Qian Wanyu fought back while the group faced the possibility that the cauldron could destroy dark power—including hers.

• Little Fatty and Dongfang Minghui discovered that the carved wall patterns could bewitch people, and Qian Ziyan’s Harp music helped awaken the group.
• Qian Wanyu found the shattered moonstone from their starting point and concluded they had walked in circles; the old man failed to find an exit with the Eye of Truth.
• Toothless’s fireballs merged overhead and triggered violent shaking, and Qing Mo identified the passage as a possible ancient weapon, the Longevity Cauldron.
• The group suspected the cauldron’s longevity patterns and phoenix-shaped flame matched the legends, while the rising heat began endangering Little Sprout and the others.
• The old man attacked Dongfang Minghui, but the Heavenly Sound Helmet struck him and Qian Wanyu absorbed the black mist he had unleashed.
• The old man’s followers were driven against the scorching wall and melted, while Qian Wanyu attacked the old man and Toothless tried to reach the flames.

Toothless ignited the Longevity Cauldron, trapping the group inside its refining flames as they searched for a way out. Dongfang Minghui saved Zhi Lan with her blood, but Little Sprout and Little Fatty were pulled toward the flames, leaving Dongfang and the others struggling to hold them back.

• Toothless struck the flames overhead with her fire, and the old man tried to die against a cauldron wall before Little Fatty seized his Spatial Ring and the Eye of Truth; the wall consumed him.
• Qian Wanyu accepted the Eye of Truth for Qian Yiling, while Little Fatty asked her to protect Little Sprout and gained a ten-thousand-year-vine pattern on her back.
• Qian Wanyu found the cauldron barrier above the flames, but Qing Mo was drawn into it; she tried to rescue him, suffered a severe backlash, and fell into Dongfang Minghui's arms.
• Xiao Miao's uncontrolled flames fed the fire until Little Fatty absorbed them, while Zhi Lan collapsed from the heat and Dongfang Minghui revived her with her blood.
• Little Sprout and Little Fatty were pulled toward the flames, and Dongfang Minghui, Qian Ziyan, Lien, Xiao Miao, and the others formed a chain to hold them back as Qian Ziyan played his zither.

Dongfang Minghui and Little Fatty were swallowed by the Longevity Cauldron’s flames, leaving Qian Wanyu consumed by grief and a heart demon. After Qian Wanyu killed Lien and later awoke, she began trying to break out of the cauldron while the others endured inside.

• Dongfang Minghui, Little Fatty, and Lien were drawn toward the Dragon Clan true fire; Dongfang Minghui used hidden needles to make Lien release them, and she and Little Fatty disappeared into the flames.
• Qian Wanyu succumbed to a heart demon, attacked those around her, and shot Lien with the Reincarnation Bow; she then collapsed as her Blood Oath went berserk.
• Xiao Miao absorbed invading Fire Element spiritual power from Mu Sheng, Zhi Lan, and the others while Qian Yiling and Qian Ziyan held back Qian Wanyu’s rampaging power.
• Qian Wanyu awoke, realized she had killed Lien, and declared it Heaven’s will before promising to get Qian Yiling and Qian Ziyan out of the Longevity Cauldron.
• Qian Wanyu spent hours shooting spiritual arrows at the flames, then meditated while Qian Ziyan said he could soothe them; later, Xiao Miao climbed toward the fire to see Little Fatty, and Qian Ziyan stopped him.
• Qian Ziyan wondered why Dongfang Minghui had been chosen to sacrifice herself instead of Xiao Miao, while Toothless lay unnoticed with a strange glow on her forehead.

Dongfang Minghui woke inside the Longevity Cauldron’s lava and captured its artifact spirit with Little Fatty’s help. She learned that Little Fatty was the Heavenly Sound Helmet’s artifact spirit, but the cauldron began shaking before they could find a way out.

• Dongfang Minghui relived visions of Toothless enduring torment, devouring Baleful Creatures, and charging into a volcano before she woke in the lava with Little Lecher and Pig Immortal Grass.
• Dongfang Minghui and the spirit plants identified a disguised Longevity Cauldron artifact spirit and bound it with man-eating grass silk while Little Fatty subdued the flames.
• Dongfang Minghui discovered that Little Fatty was the artifact spirit of the Heavenly Sound Helmet, while the captured cauldron spirit said it wanted them to stay and keep it company.
• The Longevity Cauldron suddenly lurched and its lava surged, forcing Little Fatty to control the waves and protect Dongfang Minghui.

Lien awakened from a sealed state, and the joined Concord Jade broke Qian Wanyu’s blood oath while revealing a connection to the Thousand Family’s inheritance. Dongfang Minghui escaped the Longevity Cauldron with its artifact spirit, but Little Fatty and the spirit began fighting, leaving Qian Wanyu to propose a way to separate them.

• Lien’s wind spiritual power surged, and Qian Wanyu used the Half Jade Pendant to summon Qian Ying and join the two halves of the Concord Jade.
• Lien awakened and gave Qian Wanyu a drop of blood, which combined with the Nameless Finger and Concord Jade to remove her blood-oath mark.
• Qian Wanyu and her companions joined forces to open the Longevity Cauldron as Dongfang Minghui persuaded its artifact spirit to lead her through the lava and toward an exit.
• Dongfang Minghui fell into Qian Wanyu’s arms, and the artifact spirit grew angry when the group’s Wind Blade Sword struck the cauldron; Dongfang Minghui calmed it with a Teething Stick.
• Little Fatty and the artifact spirit started fighting, while Qian Wanyu embraced Dongfang Minghui and promised to settle her recklessness after they escaped.
• Qian Wanyu offered to explain how to stop the artifact spirits’ fight if Dongfang Minghui agreed to satisfy her, then began describing a way to separate them.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu escaped the Longevity Cauldron as Ice Lotus Mountain collapsed, scattering their companions beneath the snow. After Toothless and the Little Artifact Spirit helped recover some of the group, Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui set out to find Xiao Miao, but Toothless sensed something nearby before they could go far.

• Dongfang Minghui grilled Water Charm Beast meat to tempt the Little Artifact Spirit into opening the Longevity Cauldron, while Toothless and the spirit fought over each other.
• The Little Artifact Spirit led everyone out of the cauldron, and Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu kissed when they emerged onto Ice Lotus Mountain.
• The Longevity Cauldron came free from the mountain, triggering an avalanche that sent Toothless flying with Dongfang Minghui while Qian Wanyu, Little Fatty, and the others were separated.
• Toothless rescued Lien, Mu Sheng, and Zhi Lan, while the Little Artifact Spirit found Little Sprout and later guided Dongfang Minghui to Qian Wanyu and Little Fatty.
• Qian Wanyu used a Clay Flute to locate Qian Yiling and Qian Ziyan, but Xiao Miao remained missing, so the group crossed to a nearby mountain and sheltered in a crevice.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu went searching for Xiao Miao, but Toothless stopped and growled at something on the mountainside as Qian Wanyu readied her Water-Thunder Whip.

Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu fought an invisible Ice Element beast and later reunited with Lien and Little Fatty, who had battled more of the same creatures. At Ice Lotus Mountain, Dongfang Minghui discovered a poisonous Soul-Yin Grass and an Ice Lotus; after fulfilling the grass’s wish to reunite its fruits, Little Lecher snatched the Ice Lotus, and Pig Immortal Grass warned them to flee.

• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu killed an invisible Magic Beast with help from Toothless and Little Artifact Spirit, then searched for Xiao Miao for three days without finding him.
• Lien left the mountain crevice with Little Fatty, found an Ice Lotus and Soul-Yin Grass, and was attacked by invisible beasts; Little Fatty and Lien fought them off.
• Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu followed the trail to the battlefield, where Lien and Little Fatty had defeated the beasts, and the group discovered the Ice Lotus and Soul-Yin Grass.
• Pig Immortal Grass identified the Soul-Yin Grass’s fruits as deadly poison and explained that they could help the incomplete soul in Qian Wanyu’s Soul Sea.
• Dongfang Minghui picked the Soul-Yin Grass’s three remaining fruits and received its imprint after promising to find its other fruits.
• Pig Immortal Grass realized the Soul-Yin Grass and Ice Lotus had been suppressed together, but Little Lecher immediately plucked the Ice Lotus and returned to Dongfang Minghui’s Soul Sea.

Dongfang Minghui and her companions captured a savage beast in the Longevity Cauldron, then followed the Concord Jade toward the Thousand Family inheritance with Lien. While searching for Soul-Yin Fruits, Dongfang Minghui met the mysterious Xiu Qi, who recognized her companions and her clan; she fled and later found a deep barefoot footprint in the snow.

• A giant savage beast attacked Dongfang Minghui and her companions, but the little artifact spirit enlarged the Longevity Cauldron and trapped it with Toothless's flames.
• Qian Wanyu used Lien's blood to activate the Concord Jade, which led them toward the door to the Thousand Family inheritance; Qian Ziyan also warned Dongfang Minghui that Qian Wanyu had succumbed to her heart demon and killed Lien.
• The Soul-Yin Grass Mark led Dongfang Minghui, Toothless, and Little Fatty to ruins, where Xiu Qi quickly uncovered the three Soul-Yin Fruits buried in ice.
• Xiu Qi recognized Toothless as a descendant of the Dragon Clan, identified Dongfang Minghui as a member of the Longevity Clan, and called the little artifact spirit Dingding.
• Dongfang Minghui fled from Xiu Qi and, after losing her way, followed Toothless and Little Fatty until Little Fatty found a deep barefoot footprint in the snow.

The chapter described two footprints lying side by side. It left the scene with one large print and one small print standing out clearly.

• Two footprints appeared side by side.
• One footprint was large and the other was small.
• Both footprints stood out clearly.

Dongfang Minghui found Xiao Miao and rescued him from Cheng Jiang and Lahan, then faced a powerful dragon who warned her not to open the Dragon Clan Lands. After reuniting with her companions, she rushed toward Qian Wanyu when the ground shook, while Qian Wanyu uncovered Lien’s memories of waiting for his mother.

• Dongfang Minghui followed Xiao Miao’s footprints and discovered that Cheng Jiang and Lahan had captured him, so she used the Longevity Cauldron to release an ice beast that killed them.
• Dongfang Minghui and Toothless fought the burly dragon, and the Little Artifact Spirit swallowed and returned Cheng Jiang and Lahan’s golden-threaded net before a blizzard swept through the area.
• Xiu Qi stopped time, spoke to Dongfang Minghui about her ability and Pig Immortal Grass, then left without taking Pig Immortal Grass.
• Toothless took human form and called Dongfang Minghui Mom, while the burly dragon revealed that he knew where the Dragon Clan Lands were and warned them not to open them.
• Dongfang Minghui reunited with Xiao Miao’s group, named the Little Artifact Spirit Ding Ding, and hurried toward Qian Wanyu after a rumble shook the ground.
• Qian Wanyu and Qian Yiling searched the underground cavern for Qian Ying’s hidden inheritance as Lien recovered memories of waiting for his mother.

Lien remembered that he was Qian Ying’s son and confronted Qian Wanyu over the Thousand Family’s past, but she persuaded him to reconsider and helped open the hidden inheritance door. Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui entered together, became separated in the darkness, and Dongfang Minghui broke through a barrier into a familiar green place before someone tackled her.

• Lien remembered his childhood as Rui'er and accused the Thousand Family of separating his parents, while Qian Wanyu challenged him to weigh the family’s kindness against its past wrongs.
• Qian Wanyu showed Lien Qian Ying’s preserved finger and promised that the Thousand Family would accept him, while the group discovered his blood had gathered beneath the ice.
• Qian Wanyu broke through the ice and used the Union Key to open a concealed door, then entered with Dongfang Minghui, Toothless, Little Artifact Spirit, and the others’ aid.
• Inside the darkness, Dongfang Minghui found herself separated from Qian Wanyu and used Toothless’s flames and Little Lecher’s Wood Element power to break through a soft barrier.
• Dongfang Minghui emerged in a lush garden resembling the Ninth Peak’s Inheritance Grounds, found Little Fatty and Toothless recovering nearby, and was tackled by an unseen person.

Qian Wanyu searched Qian Ying’s hidden space for the inheritance while struggling with repeated false versions of Dongfang Minghui, and she finally reunited with the real Dongfang Minghui. Toothless uncovered the inheritance beneath the ruined house, leaving Qian Wanyu poised to retrieve it.

• Qian Wanyu rejected a false Dongfang Minghui and, after repeated impostors appeared, killed one that had shared a meal with her, causing the house and Herb Garden to transform.
• Qian Wanyu found Dongfang Minghui with Toothless, Little Fatty, and Little Sprout, then embraced her and took her back to the house.
• Little Artifact Spirit interrupted Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui’s intimate reunion by bringing down the vine-covered house, and Qian Wanyu punished the spirit before Dongfang Minghui stopped her from continuing.
• Qian Wanyu ordered Little Artifact Spirit to help rebuild the house, and Toothless and the others joined in clearing the rubble.
• Toothless used fire to reveal a fiery red light beneath the ground, and Qian Wanyu recognized the spot as the place where Qian Ying had hidden the inheritance.

Dongfang Minghui discovered that the river concealed a yin-yang spring and cared for the spirits living around it while Qian Wanyu received the Thousand Family Inheritance. When Qian Wanyu underwent a demonic fall, Dongfang Minghui entered the inheritance to reach her, but the chapter ended with her struggling to understand what sacrifice was required to save Seventh Sister.

• Dongfang Minghui found that Toothless and Little Fatty had been exploring a river whose hot and cold outlets formed a yin-yang spring, and she released the Little Golden Pseudo-Dragon into its waters.
• Dongfang Minghui learned that Qian Wanyu's violent Five-Element Spirit Body was being balanced by their shared aura, then returned to tending the herb garden and feeding the spirits with spring water and fish.
• Little Fatty nourished Little Sprout with her saliva until Little Sprout bloomed, gained a human face, and began speaking.
• Dongfang Minghui sensed Qian Wanyu's spiritual power surge and entered the inheritance, where she found Qian Wanyu surrounded by sinister red-black power and nearly strangled herself after hearing the dead people's resentful voices.
• Pig Immortal Grass identified the power as resentment Qian Ying had collected from the dying and sent the Soul-Yin Grass Mark and Ice Lotus Flower toward Qian Wanyu, who swept them into the inheritance and threatened to refine them.
• Dongfang Minghui tried to gather Qian Wanyu's five excluded streams of spiritual power, but could not move them, as Pig Immortal Grass urged her to sacrifice herself.

Dongfang Minghui and Pig Immortal Grass broke Qian Wanyu free from the corrupted Thousand Family inheritance, though Minghui nearly died in the process. After Qian Wanyu received the true inheritance and revived her, they found the Yin-Yang Spring frozen by an imbalance, and set out to rescue Toothless; Ding Ding then pierced the false sky above their hidden realm.

• Dongfang Minghui used her blood and spiritual power to help Pig Immortal Grass and Little Lecher plant the Soul-Yin Grass Mark and Ice Lotus Flower, then entered the inheritance to restrain Qian Wanyu as she fell under its influence.
• Dongfang Minghui and the plants bound Qian Wanyu in a cocoon while Minghui purged the corrupted power; Pig Immortal Grass fed them the Ice Lotus Flower and a Soul-Yin Grass fruit, and Qian Wanyu later awakened to find Minghui gravely injured.
• Qian Wanyu carried Minghui into the true inheritance and received it, restoring Minghui; meanwhile, Toothless and Little Fatty's cultivation depleted the Fire Element Spring Pearl and caused the Yin-Yang Spring to freeze over.
• Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui found Ding Ding, Little Sprout, and Little Fatty trapped by the spreading ice, learned Toothless was at the river bottom, and headed toward the false sky to find a way out.
• Ding Ding struck the false sky with the Longevity Cauldron, accidentally releasing the fierce beast before it pierced open the dark space beyond the sky.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui returned to the surface and enlisted Xiao Miao to help stabilize the Yin-Yang Spring and free Toothless. As they investigated the spring and prepared to leave, Dongfang Minghui discovered that Ding Ding had used the Longevity Cauldron to refine an unusually potent elixir.

• Qian Wanyu brought Xiao Miao down to help Little Fatty melt the spreading ice while Ding Ding held open the passage with the Longevity Cauldron.
• Dongfang Minghui uncovered that Ding Ding and Toothless had destroyed her flower beds and herb garden, and Qian Wanyu assigned Ding Ding to care for the replanted herbs.
• Toothless emerged from the river after the ice melted and explained that absorbing the spring pearls had unbalanced the Yin-Yang Spring; Qian Wanyu returned underwater with her to investigate.
• Dongfang Minghui comforted Ding Ding over its punishment and discovered that its tears turned into gold beans, then stayed by the river while Qian Wanyu and Toothless studied the spring.
• Little Sprout grew a hand, and Qian Wanyu told Dongfang Minghui that they might soon need to leave once the spring remained stable.
• Ding Ding put spirit medicine into the Longevity Cauldron, and Dongfang Minghui found that it had produced a fragrant, powerful elixir.

Dongfang Minghui was pulled into the Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds after touching Toothless's forehead, where she helped Toothless drive a hostile Dragon Core from an elder's skeleton. Toothless swallowed the contaminated Dragon Core and fled, leaving Dongfang Minghui and Qian Wanyu scrambling to find and treat her.

• Dongfang Minghui and the others ate fish slices before the Dragon Core ran wild, setting the woods ablaze and leaving Toothless unconscious after it struck her.
• Dongfang Minghui touched the red mole on Toothless's forehead and was drawn into the Dragon Clan Hidden Grounds, where the Dragon Core tried to take over an elder's skeleton.
• Dongfang Minghui and Pig Immortal Grass launched the black herb at the Dragon Core, contaminating it and preventing it from returning to the skeleton; Toothless then forced it out.
• Toothless swallowed the contaminated Dragon Core, returned with Dongfang Minghui to the others, and immediately fled before Dongfang Minghui could give her the potion.
• Qian Wanyu pursued Toothless, while Dongfang Minghui sent Ding Ding after her with instructions to force the potion down her throat.

Qian Wanyu and Dongfang Minghui tried to save Toothless from a conscious Dragon Core that was suppressing her, while Ding Ding entered Toothless’s body and used a potion to weaken the black threads. After Toothless absorbed more of the Dragon Core and emerged from the Longevity Cauldron, the group returned to the Yin-Yang Spring, where Qian Wanyu prepared to retrieve the spring pearls without Toothless’s help.

• Qian Wanyu and Ding Ding found Toothless, whose behavior suggested the Dragon Core’s consciousness was taking control, and Ding Ding trapped her and the Fierce Beast inside the Longevity Cauldron.
• Dongfang Minghui explained that the Dragon Core had retained its memories and was trying to devour Toothless’s mind, so Qian Wanyu planned to keep Toothless’s attachment to her strong while the Fierce Beast occupied the Dragon Core.
• Ding Ding entered Toothless’s body, poured potion over the black threads in her dantian, and punched the Dragon Core, then learned that Toothless wanted it to keep beating the baddie rather than give her more medicine.
• Ding Ding repeatedly visited Toothless inside the cauldron, and it noticed that Toothless grew larger as the Dragon Core and the Fierce Beast grew smaller; Qian Wanyu concluded Toothless was absorbing the Dragon Core.
• Ding Ding brought Toothless out of the Longevity Cauldron, and the group returned to the Yin-Yang Spring as Qian Wanyu went down to retrieve the spring pearls while warning the others to stay back.

Qian Wanyu and Little Fatty took the Ice Spring Pearl and Fire Element Spring Pearl from the Yin-Yang Spring, triggering a flood that forced the group to escape through the Longevity Cauldron. After emerging, they encountered Yuchi Shou, learned he had saved Lien long ago, and prepared to help Toothless resist the Dragon Core's attempt to take over her body.

• Qian Wanyu and Little Fatty seized the two Spring Pearls, causing the Yin-Yang Spring to surge and flood the surrounding area.
• The group escaped through the Longevity Cauldron as the sky curtains closed, then found Yuchi Shou holding Qian Yiling hostage and demanding Toothless abandon her search for the Dragon Clan Lands.
• Yuchi Shou revealed that he had found and cared for Lien in an Ice Coffin, and Qian Wanyu decided to take Lien back to the Thousand Family.
• The Dragon Core inside Toothless launched a desperate attempt to possess her, so Qian Wanyu planned to use Yuchi Shou as bait and the Ice Spring Pearl to seal it.
• Ding Ding expanded the Longevity Cauldron around the group so they could begin the plan to force the Dragon Core out of Toothless.

Dongfang Minghui and the others tried to draw the bad fellow out of Toothless while keeping Toothless distracted. When a fierce beast attacked Dongfang Minghui and disrupted the fight, Ding Ding knocked it unconscious and tossed it to the top of the Longevity Cauldron.

• Ding Ding explained that the bad fellow inside Toothless became restless when Toothless was near death, and offered to draw it out once her flames weakened.
• Dongfang Minghui dodged as the awakened fierce beast attacked her with ice spikes.
• Ding Ding confronted the fierce beast, but hesitated to release it because it had been with Ding Ding for a long time.
• Dongfang Minghui told Ding Ding to knock the beast unconscious or trap it so it would stop interfering.
• Ding Ding slammed the fierce beast into a wall until it was dazed, then tossed it onto the top of the Longevity Cauldron.