The man coming along the mountain path was none other than Xing Yan.
After descending from Kunlun, he had come to the paths of Mount Luofu, shrouded in green trees and spring haze. Unlike his outward journey, he returned alone. But what was strange about that? Xing Yan remembered clearly that, after he had obtained the immortal medicine that could restore Xueyi's soul and bring her back to life from the kindly Elder Princess of the Queen Mother on Kunlun, his dainty, lovable little sister Qiong Tong, who had accompanied him, had caught the eye of the Queen of the West's Daughter and stayed beside her to cultivate the immortal way. Though he and Qiong Tong had been reluctant to part, how could he stand in the way of such a rare and wonderful opportunity? Not only could he not stop her, he was delighted that little Qiong Tong had found such magnificent immortal destiny.
Qiong Tong was not the only one who had remained on Kunlun. The ghost soldiers Ding Jia and Yi Cang, who had always accompanied him within the Siyou Netherworld Ring, and Lan Cheng-Lan Caihe-who had perished in the calamity at the Highest Clarity Sect, had also caught the eye of the Queen of the West's Daughter. They had stayed at the Rebirth Mirror Terrace as Divine Officials charged with guarding the immortal soul-summoning banners. Xing Yan had originally hoped only that Lan Cheng might cultivate into a ghost immortal. Who would have thought he would now become a high immortal of Kunlun's immortal realm? How could Xing Yan not rejoice?
Beyond all these happy tidings, what mattered most to Zhang Xingyan was learning that, for the Queen of the West's Daughter in Kunlun's immortal realm, bringing Xueyi back to life required no more than the