Chapter Summaries

The Female Emperor, Xu Qingxiao, and Daoist Wuchen fought Wang Chaoyang and the Heaven and Earth Literary Palace until Prince Huaining brokered a pause. Prince Huaining proposed that Wang Chaoyang establish the Confucian Dao in Great Wei while Xu Qingxiao chose between governing and devoting himself to teaching, and the chapter ended with everyone waiting for Xu Qingxiao's response.

• Daoist Wuchen attacked the Heaven and Earth Literary Palace, and Wang Chaoyang used its heaven gold stone to reproduce and strengthen the strike.
• The Female Emperor and Xu Qingxiao joined Daoist Wuchen in assaulting the Literary Palace with Great Wei's national fortune, forcing Wang Chaoyang to call for negotiations.
• Prince Huaining stopped the battle temporarily and proposed that Wang Chaoyang spread the Confucian teachings in Great Wei while Xu Qingxiao withdrew from either government or Confucian affairs.
• The Female Emperor rejected Wang Chaoyang's arrival, but Prince Huaining argued that Great Wei needed more scholars to prepare for the upheaval expected in three years.
• Prince Huaining asked Xu Qingxiao to choose a course, and the gathered factions waited for his answer.

Xu Qingxiao demanded that Wang Chaoyang make Great Vows before spreading his teachings in Great Wei, then offered the first half of the Dao De Jing to whoever killed him. Six First Rank experts attacked the Heaven and Earth Literary Palace, and Wang Chaoyang nearly agreed to leave before Wu Ming’s voice rang out, challenging his threat to take everyone down with him.

• Xu Qingxiao demanded that Wang Chaoyang make Ten Great Vows or face all-out war, while Wang Chaoyang refused and relied on the awakened Sage Artifacts in the Heaven and Earth Literary Palace.
• Xu Qingxiao offered the first half of the Dao De Jing to anyone who slew Wang Chaoyang, drawing Jian Wuji and five other First Rank experts to the Capital.
• The six First Rank experts and Great Wei’s National Fortune True Dragon attacked the Literary Palace, overwhelming its defenses and injuring Wang Chaoyang and the Three Thousand Grand Confucians.
• Wang Chaoyang offered to leave Great Wei, but Xu Qingxiao refused and ordered the experts to keep attacking until they reached an agreement.
• As Wang Chaoyang threatened to make everyone perish with him, Wu Ming’s voice rang through the Capital and challenged him.

Xu Qingxiao forced Wang Chaoyang to make forty great vows, strengthening Great Wei’s national fortune and earning Wang a binding vow mark. After Wu Ming warned Xu about hidden schemes and revealed his plans for seclusion, Wang learned that the mysterious Exalted One intended to use him against Xu and Great Wei.

• Wu Ming and six First Rank Immortal Dao experts confronted Wang Chaoyang, and Xu Qingxiao raised his demand until Wang agreed to make forty great vows.
• Wang’s vows empowered Great Wei’s true dragon, and heaven and earth bestowed a vow mark that would punish him if he failed to fulfill them.
• Wang established the Heaven and Earth Literary Palace in Great Wei, while Xu offered the Dao De Jing to the Immortal Dao experts who had helped him.
• Wu Ming told Xu he would enter sealed seclusion, gave him a Jade Pendant for emergencies, and warned him to trust no one blindly; Xu revealed that the Fourth-Generation Sage had corrupted Sage Zhu’s lineage and might be using Wang as a pawn.
• An indistinct Exalted One rebuked Wang for his conduct, ordered him to follow the plan and restrain Xu, and told him to seek a hidden person; Wang then learned that Prince Huaining had brought an elder of the Seven Stars Dao Sect to visit.

Prince Huaining secured Wang Chaoyang’s cooperation in a plan to install the Martial Emperor's Orphan and weaken Xu Qingxiao, while agreeing to provide the Border Deployment Map to the Barbarian Tribe. Xu Qingxiao’s attempts to forge a Divine Martial Cannon failed because its formations repelled one another, but a forgotten kind of power gave him a sudden spark of inspiration.

• Prince Huaining persuaded Wang Chaoyang to join a three-pronged effort against Xu Qingxiao, including supporting the Martial Emperor's Orphan against the Female Emperor.
• Daoist Qingjing warned Prince Huaining that Wang Chaoyang seemed suspicious, but Prince Huaining dismissed the concern and agreed to help recover the Seven Stars Dao Sect's Ancient Scripture.
• The Masked Man told Prince Huaining that the Crown Prince would reach the Capital within ten days and asked him to publicize the orphan's arrival.
• The Masked Man asked for Great Wei's Border Deployment Map and Border Defense Map, and Prince Huaining agreed to provide them in a few days to aid the Barbarian Tribe.
• Xu Qingxiao forged a Divine Martial Cannon, but attempts to inscribe multiple formations failed despite trying spiritual energy, Martial Dao energy, Confucian Dao power, and an Unorthodox Art.
• After thinking through the night, Xu Qingxiao suddenly remembered a kind of power he had overlooked.

Xu Qingxiao solved the formation problem and completed a Second-Rank Divine Martial Cannon, whose first shot devastated a vast stretch of the Gobi Desert. The blast was mistaken for a natural disaster, and a messenger warned the Female Emperor that mountains and rivers had been shattered.

• Xu Qingxiao used popular will to separate the cannon’s formations, then discovered that spiritual energy pierced the popular will and caused the artifact to crack.
• After four more failed refinements, Xu Qingxiao protected the popular will with Immortal Dao, Martial Dao, and Confucian Dao power, successfully activating a third-rank Divine Martial Cannon.
• Xu Qingxiao tested the cannon in the Gobi Desert, where its shot blasted a fifty-kilometer path through the landscape, then found that the artifact could only withstand a few shots.
• Xu Qingxiao forged a Second-Rank Divine Martial Cannon and inscribed ten formations into it over five days.
• Xu Qingxiao charged the cannon with nine lightning bolts and fired it, destroying mountains across a vast stretch of the Gobi Desert.
• A messenger rushed into Yangxin Hall and told the Female Emperor that a golden ball of light had shattered mountains and rivers within Great Wei.

Xu Qingxiao tested the Divine Martial Cannon, planned his priorities, and learned that Wang Botong was in the capital, while the Northern Barbarians prepared to invade Great Wei with stolen deployment maps. The chapter ended as Xu Qingxiao and Yang Hu reached Clearwater Pond and spotted a familiar figure.

• The Heaven-Watching Bureau reported that lightning had devastated the Northwestern Wasteland, and Ji Ling ordered the Duke of Lu to investigate.
• Xu Qingxiao inspected the Divine Martial Cannon’s destruction, calculated the forces needed to defeat Great Wei’s enemies, and resolved to seek more supreme-grade spirit gold.
• Xu Qingxiao listed his priorities: the Buddhist Order debate, Wang Chaoyang and the Fourth-Generation Sage, the Northern Barbarians, and the Central Continent Immortal Treasury.
• Yang Hu told Xu Qingxiao that Wang Botong was fishing beside Clearwater Pond, and Xu Qingxiao went there to meet the man who had written about the Great Sage’s disciples.
• Prince Huaining gave the Masked Man outdated Great Wei deployment maps, and the Masked Man delivered them to the Barbarian King.
• The Barbarian King confirmed his plan to invade Great Wei and slaughter its people, then Xu Qingxiao and Yang Hu arrived at Clearwater Pond and saw a familiar figure.

Xu Qingxiao met Xunzi, who revealed that he was Wang Botong and described the Great Sage’s sealed disciples and a future threat from the Three Great Fiendish Gods. Xunzi led Xu Qingxiao to suspect that someone had arranged events around him, possibly Sage Zhu rather than Sage Li, while the Buddhist Order set out for Great Wei.

• Xu Qingxiao and Yang Hu found Xunzi fishing by Clearwater Pond, and Yang Hu identified him as Wang Botong.
• Xunzi confirmed that the Great Sage’s seven disciples were sealed in the true Heaven and Earth Literary Palace to await a future Sage who could slay the Three Great Fiendish Gods.
• Xunzi pointed out unexplained events in Xu Qingxiao’s past, prompting Xu Qingxiao to realize that Yan Lei had likely arranged Wu Yan’s escape and that someone had guided his rise.
• Xu Qingxiao suspected Sage Li was the mastermind, but Xunzi suggested that Sage Zhu might instead be manipulating events and warned Xu Qingxiao not to trust either man blindly.
• Xunzi said the pursuit of eternal life was tied to the Three Great Fiendish Gods and that the Central Continent Immortal Treasury held records of its methods.
• News reached Great Wei that the Buddhist Order had set out for the country.

After the Buddhist Order defeated the Eastern Continent in a doctrinal debate, Divine Monk Huijue led his monks toward Great Wei, wary of Wang Chaoyang and the dynasty’s growing fortune. Xu Qingxiao considered the hidden plots around Sage Zhu, revealed his Divine Martial Cannon to Ji Ling, taught the Dao De Jing to the Immortal Sects, and began responding when Huijue arrived outside the Capital with a display of Buddhist power.

• Divine Monk Huijue announced the Buddhist Order’s victory in the Eastern Continent and led the monks toward Great Wei, explaining that Wang Chaoyang and Great Wei’s national fortune concerned him more than Xu Qingxiao.
• Xu Qingxiao questioned Xunzi about Sage Zhu, Wang Chaoyang, and the Three Thousand Grand Confucians; Xunzi urged him to suppress Wang Chaoyang and warned him to beware Hua Xingyun.
• Xu Qingxiao showed Ji Ling the Divine Martial Cannon and asked her to obtain supreme-grade spirit gold so he could forge a first-rank cannon.
• The six Immortal Sect First Rank experts asked Xu Qingxiao to teach them, and he recited and explained the Dao De Jing at the Supreme Immortal Palace.
• Huijue reached Great Wei’s Capital and preached Buddhist scriptures outside it, summoning vast Buddhist light and golden Buddhas as Xu Qingxiao sensed the display and began to respond.

Xu Qingxiao used Daoist teachings to block the Buddhist Order’s advance on Great Wei and trapped divine monk Huijue in a doctrinal argument before their formal debate. After gaining the Immortal Sects’ gratitude, Xu Qingxiao asked them for supreme-grade spirit gold and learned that a mysterious place might hold even more.

• Huijue chanted Buddhist scriptures outside the Capital, and Xu Qingxiao answered with Daoist teachings that formed an azure lotus and kept the Buddhist light from entering.
• The six First Rank cultivators in the Supreme Immortal Palace praised Xu Qingxiao’s scripture as they studied its teachings.
• Huijue intensified his Buddhist manifestation, but Xu Qingxiao’s Purple Immortal drove the golden light back and shook Huijue’s blood qi.
• Xu Qingxiao challenged Huijue’s claims by declaring himself the Buddha and arguing that Buddhist teachings made all beings equal; Huijue answered that Xu Qingxiao had not attained the Buddha’s formless state.
• Xu Qingxiao called Huijue’s teachings Lesser Vehicle Buddhist Dharma, and Huijue replied that he would spread Buddhism to enlighten the common people.
• The six cultivators thanked Xu Qingxiao, offered him 570 jin of supreme-grade spirit gold, and Lian Lingzi mentioned a place rumored to contain even more valuable materials.

Xu Qingxiao gathered supreme-grade spirit gold and ordered first-rank formations so he could forge a Divine Martial Cannon while preparing for the Buddhist Order’s Dharma Debate. As the Immortal Sects lost and conceded, Wang Chaoyang refused to participate; Xu Qingxiao finished the cannon and learned the Confucian Dao would depend on him for the debate’s next day.

• Daoist Lian Lingzi suggested that the Central Continent Immortal Treasury might contain vast quantities of supreme-grade spirit gold, and Xu Qingxiao asked Lin Zhen to inscribe eighteen first-rank artifact formations within seven days.
• Lin Zhen urged Xu Qingxiao to face the Buddhist Order, while the Immortal Dao experts considered joining Great Wei if they lost; Daoist Wuchen later secretly sent Lu Ziying to deliver the Supreme Immortal Sect’s Twelve Inner Courts Scripture to Xu Qingxiao.
• Xu Qingxiao gave Lu Ziying a copy of the Dao De Jing, jokingly asked him to use the Supreme Immortal Sword to kill the Buddhist monks, and then began forging a Divine Martial Cannon from the spirit gold he had collected.
• Wang Chaoyang refused to join the Dharma Debate, and Divine Monk Huijue led the Buddhist Order to defeat the Immortal Sects before they conceded on the fourth day.
• Xu Qingxiao completed the cannon and stored it away, then learned from Chen Zhengru that Wang Chaoyang had refused to debate Confucianism, leaving Xu Qingxiao as Great Wei’s remaining hope.

Xu Qingxiao recited the Diamond Sutra during his Dharma debate with Divine Monk Huijue, manifesting a ninth-rank golden lotus and a true Buddha apparition while rejecting the Buddhist Order’s offer of devotional power. He answered Huijue’s challenge about the Other Shore with the Three Dharma Seals and a nine-layer Buddhist Wisdom Wheel, leaving the debate and the Buddhist Order in shock.

• Xu Qingxiao answered Huijue’s question about the Tathagata with words from the Diamond Sutra, causing a ninth-rank golden lotus and a Buddha apparition to manifest.
• The Buddha apparition recited the Diamond Sutra across the Dust Realm, and the Western Continent’s believers and temple Buddhas paid homage to Xu Qingxiao as devotional power surged toward him.
• Divine Monk Jialan offered Xu Qingxiao the Buddhist Order’s status and fortune, but Xu Qingxiao rejected the devotional power and let the Great Wei Dragon Cauldron absorb it.
• Xu Qingxiao debated Huijue over the Other Shore, arguing that ultimate bliss lay in the human world and that understanding the Eight Sufferings could bring the Other Shore beneath one’s feet.
• Xu Qingxiao formed the Three Dharma Seals and recited the Diamond Sutra, summoning an ancient true Buddha and manifesting a nine-layer Buddhist Wisdom Wheel.

Xu Qingxiao defeated Tianzhu Temple in the fourth Dharma debate by explaining the three Dharma seals and exposing the contradiction in the Buddhist Order’s promise that anyone could become a Buddha by laying down the butcher’s blade. Huijue conceded defeat and arranged a sutra debate for the next day, while the monks privately tried to understand how Xu Qingxiao had won.

• Xu Qingxiao revealed the meaning of impermanence, non-self, and nirvana’s stillness, manifesting nine Buddhist halos and the Great Dao Treasure Vase as Jialan and Huixin recognized his wisdom.
• Xu Qingxiao challenged the Buddhist Order’s claim that people sought peace and salvation, then argued that laying down the butcher’s blade could not erase the consequences of killing and that Great Wei needed laws to punish wrongdoing.
• Huijue asked Xu Qingxiao to take refuge in the Buddha if Huijue dug out his heart and found no blade within it, and Xu Qingxiao agreed.
• As Huijue reached for his heart, Xu Qingxiao told him to look at what he was holding, making Huijue realize that Xu Qingxiao had revealed the slaughter blade in his heart.
• Huijue bowed and conceded the debate, then asked to debate sutra recitation the following day, and Xu Qingxiao agreed.

After Xu Qingxiao defeated Huijue in the first Dharma debate, Huixin warned him about the Buddhist Order’s plans and revealed that he wanted to overturn its leadership. Xu Qingxiao sent Huixin to the Western Continent to seek hidden Mahayana Buddhist Dharma, while the Buddhist Order prepared a final plan and the second debate began.

• Huijue explained that Xu Qingxiao had tricked him into revealing his intention to undermine Great Wei, but remained confident that the Buddhist Order could win the next rounds.
• Huixin visited Xu Qingxiao, warned him that Tianzhu Temple planned to project a Buddha-land during the Scripture Inscription debate, and offered to obtain the Eight-Treasure Buddhist Lotus for him.
• Huixin asked to become Xu Qingxiao’s disciple and said he wanted to overthrow the Buddhist Order because demons had infiltrated it and a catastrophe was approaching.
• Xu Qingxiao told Huixin to seek hidden Mahayana Buddhist Dharma across the Western Continent, promising to accept him as a disciple if he comprehended it.
• Prince Huaining learned that the Crown Prince was in the Tuxie Dynasty and would form a marriage alliance, while Divine Monk Jialan ordered Huijue to carry out the final plan if the Buddhist Order lost the next debate.
• The second day arrived, and the Scripture Inscription debate began.

During the second Dharma debate, Xu Qingxiao rebuffed Divine Monk Huijue’s attempt to unsettle him, then answered the Buddhist Order’s Ultimate Bliss manifestation by summoning the Tathagata’s True Form. The Buddhist artifacts acknowledged the apparition, and the chapter left Huijue pale and the Buddhist Order stunned by Xu Qingxiao’s overwhelming display.

• Divine Monk Huijue tried to make Xu Qingxiao admit he harbored a butcher’s blade, while Wang Chaoyang joined in and drew rebukes from the Duke of An, Chen Zhengru, Gu Yan, and the Female Emperor.
• Xu Qingxiao recited a Buddhist verse and manifested an Ancient Bodhi Tree, defeating Huijue’s doctrinal argument before the scripture inscription contest began.
• Divine Monk Huijue and the Eight Hundred Debate Monks inscribed a scripture that manifested the Buddhist Order’s Land of Ultimate Bliss, stirring longing among the people of Great Wei’s Capital.
• Xu Qingxiao denounced the vision as Lesser Vehicle Buddhist Dharma and recited scripture that summoned the Tathagata’s True Form, accompanied by Buddhas, golden dragons, and a Twelfth-Rank Golden Lotus.
• The Western Continent’s three great Buddhist artifacts empowered the Tathagata’s True Form, while the Lesser Thunderclap Temple proclaimed Xu Shouren a true Buddha and Divine Monk Huijue stood pale before Xu Qingxiao’s manifestation.

Tathagata's True Form named Xu Qingxiao the Buddhist Order's World-Honored One, granting him immense Buddhist power and thought-power that brought his four cultivation paths to the perfection of the third rank. The Great Wei Dragon Cauldron began forming a purple cocoon that an old cultivator identified as the Central Continent Dragon Cauldron, while Xu Qingxiao sought the Eight-Treasure Buddhist Lotus.

• Tathagata's True Form recognized Xu Qingxiao as the World-Honored One, and Xu Qingxiao absorbed Buddhist power and Western Continent thought-power, reaching the perfection of the third rank in his Buddhist, Confucian, martial, and immortal cultivation.
• Xu Qingxiao directed thought-power into the Great Wei Dragon Cauldron as six of the Seven Great Immortal Sects, excluding the Seven Stars Dao Sect, declared they would join the Great Wei Dynasty.
• The Great Wei Dragon Cauldron formed a purple cocoon, and an elderly cultivator identified it as a sign that the Central Continent Dragon Cauldron was being nurtured, warning that war and political turmoil could disrupt its formation.
• Divine Monk Jialan asked Xu Qingxiao for permission to retrieve Huijue's belongings, and Xu Qingxiao demanded the Eight-Treasure Buddhist Lotus.
• Divine Monk Jialan said the Buddhist Order could provide a new Eight-Treasure Buddhist Lotus in three years, but Huixin interrupted to say he had obtained one.

After the Buddhist Order lost the doctrinal debate, Xu Qingxiao received the Eight-Treasure Buddhist Lotus and asked the Pill Deity Ancient Scripture about a pill that could break through to the First Rank. The chapter left him learning that a prince of Great Wei had arrived.

• Xu Qingxiao declared the Buddhist Order's defeat, and Great Wei secured the capital as the Dragon Cauldron transformed.
• Huixin gave Xu Qingxiao the Eight-Treasure Buddhist Lotus, which he had taken from the Merit Pool, and Xu Qingxiao sent him to seek Mahayana Buddhist Dharma.
• Xu Qingxiao told Zhaoge he had gathered the materials to suppress the unorthodox art, and Zhaoge said the process would take at least a month.
• Xu Qingxiao rejected the First-Rank Realm-Breaking Immortal Pill after hearing its ingredients, then learned that a Martial Dao pill required a martial dao heart and extreme yin qi.
• The Marquis of Xinwu told Xu Qingxiao that a prince of Great Wei had arrived.

Xu Qingxiao persuaded Ji Ling’s court to receive the Former Emperor’s orphan, verify his identity, and offer him the title of King of Southern Shu rather than bar his return. As rumors backing the prince spread, the prince’s procession reached the Great Wei border, where an envoy announced a different title, King of the Southern Barbarians, and the prince angrily ordered the speaker to leave.

• The Marquis of Xinwu told Xu Qingxiao that the Tuxie Dynasty had verified the Former Emperor’s orphan and was escorting him to Great Wei.
• At court, Chen Zhengru urged turning the prince away, while Wang Xinzhi warned that doing so would provoke public backlash and foreign interference.
• Xu Qingxiao proposed admitting the prince, verifying his identity, and granting him a title to rule Southern Shu; Ji Ling approved the plan.
• In the Imperial Garden, Xu Qingxiao reassured Ji Ling of his support, and she asked him to visit the palace more often and avoid the Peach Blossom Nunnery.
• Rumors supporting the prince spread, while Grand Confucians at the Heaven and Earth Literary Palace discussed Confucian principles of loyalty and seniority.
• At the Great Wei border, an envoy proclaimed that the verified prince would become King of the Southern Barbarians, and the prince told the woman in the carriage behind him to scram.

Ji Yuan returned to Great Wei with foreign backing and demanded entry to the Capital, while the Tuxie Dynasty and the Buddhist Order made plans to destabilize Great Wei. Xu Qingxiao began assembling a First-Rank Divine Martial Cannon as pressure mounted, and Ji Yuan was finally permitted to enter the Capital, where the vassal kings awaited him.

• Ji Yuan refused the order to turn back, declared he would go to the Capital to prove his identity, and privately vowed to reclaim Great Wei’s throne and later destroy the powers backing him.
• The Tuxie court debated how to obstruct Great Wei’s Central Continent Dragon Cauldron, then learned from a masked man that Great Wei’s first-rank experts would not intervene and agreed to aid an attack through the Northern Barbarians.
• Divine Monk Jialan left the Buddhist Order’s hall to undo the seal on the Demon Sea, while Huiming recognized that he intended to release its demons and bring chaos to the world.
• Lin Zhen delivered twenty first-rank formation jades to Xu Qingxiao, who promised him the complete Dao De Jing and began integrating the formations into the Divine Martial Cannon.
• Great Wei’s court debated Ji Yuan’s return as the vassal kings, Tuxie, Chuyuan, Wang Chaoyang, the Seven Stars Dao Sect, and the Buddhist Order pressed for his entry; the Female Emperor eventually permitted him into the Capital for identity verification.
• Ji Yuan’s procession neared the Capital as vassal kings arrived to await him, leaving the city tense over the Martial Emperor’s orphan’s return.

Ji Yuan entered the Capital, proved his imperial identity, and gravely wounded Chen Zhengru after demanding that he kneel. The Female Emperor contained the confrontation, while Xu Qingxiao completed a First-Rank Divine Martial Cannon and learned that Chen Zhengru had nearly died.

• The Female Emperor explained that she had allowed Ji Yuan to enter the Capital to expose the forces supporting him, while Chen Zhengru warned that he should not meet her yet.
• Ji Yuan arrived at the Capital and proved his identity when Taizu's Long Saber recognized his blood; he then demanded that Chen Zhengru kneel and apologize.
• After the Female Emperor summoned Ji Yuan, Chen Zhengru invoked court regulations to delay their meeting, and Ji Yuan struck him with Martial Dao power, leaving him gravely injured.
• The Female Emperor rebuked Ji Yuan and ordered him to stay at Prince Huaining's Residence, where he planned to visit the other Vassal Kings.
• Xu Qingxiao completed a First-Rank Divine Martial Cannon that could fire twenty times, then learned from Yang Hu that Chen Zhengru had been severely wounded.

Xu Qingxiao confronted Ji Yuan over his severe injury of Chen Zhengru, then challenged him outside the Capital and overwhelmed him in battle. Ji Yuan was left badly injured, while Prince Huaining's banquet fell silent as the guests wondered whether they should still warm his wine.

• Xu Qingxiao learned that Ji Yuan had gravely injured Chen Zhengru and went to the palace to ask Ji Ling how she would handle the matter.
• Ji Ling told Xu Qingxiao to leave Ji Yuan alone for now because the barbarians were mobilizing and might attack if a demon domain collapsed; she also gave Xu Qingxiao leave to deal with Ji Yuan before departing for up to two months.
• Xu Qingxiao announced that Ji Yuan would receive one hundred strokes and three months in the Court of Judicial Review, then ordered him out of Prince Huaining's Residence.
• Ji Yuan emerged to fight Xu Qingxiao outside the Capital, but Xu Qingxiao's opening attacks broke Ji Yuan's arms and spine and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Ji Yuan used his full strength and charged again, but Xu Qingxiao defeated him once more, leaving him with shattered bones and severe internal injuries.
• Prince Huaining realized he had spoken too confidently, and a guest asked whether they should still warm Ji Yuan's wine.