Recaps

Xu Taiping recovered enough to see that the Human Sovereign Spear had broken its seal, while Ningchan Cave’s forces continued to overwhelm his allies. As Xu Taiping raced to draw the spear, Dongfang Yuejian was poisoned and left exposed to Huangbo’s attack.

• Xu Taiping recovered his senses and saw the Human Sovereign Spear had shattered its seal and scattered the thunderclouds.
• Xu Taiping spotted Xuanzhi, Dongfang Yuejian, the Song Family brothers, and Yang Ben fighting Ningchan Cave’s Lu, Huangbo, Qingshi, Lü Hu, and Thousand Threads.
• Dongfang Yuejian urged Xu Taiping to draw the spear, and he struggled toward it despite his wounds.
• Qingshi’s sword shadow blasted apart Xuanzhi’s Vajra Dharma Aspect’s arms, while Lu’s poisonous vine struck Dongfang Yuejian.
• Dongfang Yuejian cut through the vine and tried to purge its poison, but Lu ordered Huangbo to kill her.
• Huangbo broke through the battle and swung his fist at Dongfang Yuejian’s head.

Xu Taiping drew the Human Sovereign Spear despite lethal lightning, gaining the vitality he needed to save Dongfang Yuejian. After blocking Huangbo’s attack and transforming into his Raging Dragon Physique, he struck Huangbo and vowed to keep him alive through every punch Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi had endured.

• Master Xuanzhi used a Buddhist art to bear the injuries of Dongfang Yuejian as Huangbo attacked her, while Elder Lu prepared his Earthfire City Incineration technique.
• Xu Taiping sensed the vitality within the Human Sovereign Spear and chose to draw it, even as the dragons’ thunder struck him and stripped away much of his flesh.
• Xu Taiping pulled the spear free, and streams of spiritual power began flowing from it into his body.
• When Huangbo’s next punch overwhelmed Master Xuanzhi’s protection, Xu Taiping appeared in Dongfang Yuejian’s place and blocked the blow, diverting its force into the ground.
• Xu Taiping transformed into a three-zhang-tall Raging Dragon Physique and punched through Huangbo’s chest, then promised not to let him die quickly.

Xu Taiping’s rage-driven clone defeated Huangbo, then faced a Fierce Beast released from Ningchan Cave’s Demon-Suppressing Prison. The chapter ended with Xu Taiping destroying the beast and shattering half the prison gates with a single punch.

• Xu Taiping severed his connection to the Origin Beginning Clone, letting rage drive it to the Ultimate Realm, and the clone killed Huangbo with a punch.
• Qingshi opened the Demon-Suppressing Prison gates and dragged the exhausted Master Xuanzhi in front of them to force Xu Taiping to fight the beast inside.
• As a Fierce Beast charged at Xuanzhi, Xu Taiping used Form- and Shadow-Transposition to exchange places with him.
• Xu Taiping unleashed Mountain-Setting, Third Stage, and combined his Fist Shadows into the punch called Ants Shake the Tree.
• Xu Taiping’s punch turned the Fierce Beast into blood mist and shattered half of the black iron gates.

Xu Taiping defeated Qingshi and Huangbo, then forced Ningchan Cave’s Lü Hu and Thousand Threads to release the four youths from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven. With Xuanzhi and Miss Dongfang rescued, he prepared to lead them toward Wilderness.

• Qingshi withdrew the Demon-Suppressing Prison gate and attacked Xu Taiping with a phantom flying sword, but Xu Taiping’s Evil-Origin Clone used Huangbo to destroy the attack and struck off Qingshi’s head.
• Lü Hu charged at Xu Taiping, but he crushed Huangbo’s head and threatened Qingshi until she stopped; Huangbo then attacked with his Primordial Spirit, and Xu Taiping’s roar destroyed Huangbo and his bonded divine weapon.
• Cultivators watching through Spirit Mirrors marveled at Xu Taiping’s strength and recalled his feats in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, while Li Yu learned that Xu Taiping had once been a mortal bone.
• After tribulation lightning scattered Huangbo’s soul, Xu Taiping threatened to crush Qingshi’s head unless Lü Hu ordered Thousand Threads to release the four brothers from Mysterious Wasteland Heaven.
• Thousand Threads recalled his puppets, and Xu Taiping told the four brothers they could leave, planning to take Xuanzhi and Miss Dongfang toward the entrance to Wilderness.

Xu Taiping was immobilized by Qingshi of Ningchan Cave as Purple-Robed Elder Lu unleashed Ningchan Cave's Earthfire City Incineration Technique across Yangxian City. A hooded woman intervened and helped Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi escape, then faced Elder Lu's attack.

• The Four Song Brothers left Yangxian City after agreeing to meet Xu Taiping in Thousand Mechanisms City.
• Qingshi of Ningchan Cave used a Body-Fixing Formula to immobilize Xu Taiping, then was struck by tribulation lightning as Lü Hu rushed toward them.
• Thousand Threads blocked Lü Hu while Purple-Robed Elder Lu unleashed Ningchan Cave's Earthfire City Incineration Technique, spreading lava and flames through Yangxian City.
• Xu Taiping urged Dongfang Yuejian to take Master Xuanzhi and escape, and a hooded woman appeared and drove the lava back underground.
• The hooded woman gave Dongfang Yuejian a talisman that sent her and Master Xuanzhi away in blue smoke, but the earthflames erupted again.
• Elder Lu attacked the hooded woman with a fireball that split into thousands of fiery arrows, and she formed a seal and said, "Break!"

Xiahou You of Jade Balance Mountain arrived in Yangxian City and protected Xu Taiping from Purple-Robed Elder Lu’s devastating fire attacks. She revealed that they had met before at the Mysterious Wasteland Tower and thanked Xu Taiping for saving her there.

• Purple-Robed Elder Lu unleashed a Divine Manifestation that flooded much of Yangxian City with waves of fire and summoned flame giants to attack Xu Taiping and the woman.
• The woman used an ice-blue ring to hold back the flames and the Immortal Hong Feather to make the giants’ flaming boulders float away.
• Viewers recognized the Hong Feather as a treasure of Jade Balance Mountain, and Li Yu wondered why someone from the mountain had come to save Xu Taiping.
• The woman ignored Elder Lu’s demand and introduced herself to Xu Taiping as Xiahou You of Jade Balance Mountain, whom he had saved at the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.

Xiahou You rescued Xu Taiping from Ningchan Cave’s attack in Yangxian City, using the Immortal Hong Feather and Bamboo Umbrella to drive back the Flame Giants and freeze the city. After Xu Taiping escaped, her borrowed aura faded, and Elder Lu realized she had deceived him.

• Xiahou You repelled the Flame Giants’ weapons with the Immortal Hong Feather and tore apart the Spirit-Calming Formation Talisman trapping Xu Taiping.
• Xiahou You gave Xu Taiping a talisman to reunite with Miss Dongfang and Master Xuanzhi, then refused his offer to help because his presence kept her from unleashing her strength.
• Xiahou You used the Bamboo Umbrella to release a tremendous aura, froze Yangxian City, and declared that she would protect Xu Taiping from Ningchan Cave.
• Xiahou Qingyuan told Spirit Mirror viewers that Xiahou You had intervened to repay Xu Taiping for rescuing her in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
• Xu Taiping activated the talisman and vanished, while Xiahou You’s borrowed aura and the freezing effect faded.
• Elder Lu realized Xiahou You had deceived him and angrily accused her of it.

Xiahou You learned that Ningchan Cave’s Mr. Xunqi was in the Wilderness and hurried to obtain a high-grade Flood Dragon Token so she could reach Xu Taiping first. In the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse, Li Yu of Penglai revealed that Xunqi had attained Dao Integration and had a physique that barely qualified for the Great Sage Realm.

• Xiahou You escaped Elder Lu’s flames after Xu Taiping and his companions fled into the Wilderness, beyond pursuit without a high-grade Flood Dragon Token.
• Elder Lu revealed that Ningchan Cave’s Mr. Xunqi was in the Wilderness and sent him a message using a Jade Slip containing a Divine Soul Mark.
• Xiahou You rushed toward the Old Dragon Court, asked her elder brother for a high-grade Flood Dragon Token, and opened the Green Bamboo Umbrella to speed into the Wilderness.
• Cultivators in the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse asked Li Yu of Penglai about Mr. Xunqi, and Li Yu called him a rabid dog kept by Ningchan Cave.
• Li Yu told the teahouse that Xunqi had attained Dao Integration a hundred years earlier and that his physique barely qualified for the Great Sage Realm.

Li Yu of Penglai warned cultivators that Xunqi could unleash terrifying power in the Wilderness, prompting them to seek Flood Dragon Tokens. At the Wilderness entrance, Xu Taiping used Earth Fruit Seeds to restore Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi, and learned how Dongfang’s One Stroke Opens Heaven ability worked.

• Li Yu of Penglai explained that Xunqi could attack at full strength a few times and that the Wilderness barely restrained true intent and divine intent, then vanished from the teahouse.
• Cultivators in the teahouse rushed to buy Flood Dragon Tokens after realizing something momentous was about to happen in Wilderness Heaven.
• Xu Taiping arrived at the Wilderness entrance and gave Earth Fruit Seeds to Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi to restore their divine soul power.
• Dongfang Yuejian recovered her strength and used One Stroke Opens Heaven to create spirit spring water that helped restore Master Xuanzhi.
• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that even Immortal Grade pills and spirit fruits could not quickly replenish the divine soul power she needed to use her ability.

Xu Taiping gave Dongfang Yuejian Lotus Seeds to help restore her Divine Soul Power, then received Dragon Emperor Cangzhou’s advice about breaking through to the true dragon Divine Being realm. Dragon Emperor Cangzhou also explained that Xu Taiping could transform through his Flame Emperor Body Tempering, leaving Xu Taiping with new possibilities to explore as he prepared for the Wilderness.

• Xu Taiping gave Dongfang Yuejian twelve Lotus Seeds, and she promised to help him during their journey into the Wilderness.
• Dongfang Yuejian treated Master Xuanzhi’s injuries with her Rune Brush, steadying his breathing.
• Dragon Emperor Cangzhou advised Xu Taiping to rely only on Pure Martial Artist methods in a life-and-death fight to temper his qi and blood and possibly break through his physical barrier.
• Xu Taiping promised to honor his agreement to visit the Upper Realm and open the Dragon Ancestor Treasury with Dragon Emperor Cangzhou.
• Before disappearing, Dragon Emperor Cangzhou told Xu Taiping that the Ultimate Realm stages of Flame Emperor Body Tempering could transform under extreme rage and grant Bloodline Power akin to Dragon Breath.

Xu Taiping and his companions escaped into the Wilderness as Thousand Threads and Lü Hu pursued them. They emerged in a different region than Xu Taiping had reached before, and Dongfang Yuejian explained that the Wilderness had many entrances and that their destination depended on where they entered.

• Xu Taiping thanked Dragon Emperor Cangzhou for his guidance and considered using a Wilderness Lion or Python Flood Dragon form to conserve essence blood.
• Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi prepared to enter the Wilderness when Thousand Threads and Lü Hu approached.
• Dongfang Yuejian gave Xu Taiping and Master Xuanzhi her higher-grade Flood Dragon Tokens, and Xu Taiping used Five-Finger Sky Rend to stop their pursuers.
• The three struck the Stone Stele and entered the Wilderness, where they found the landscape and conditions unlike Xu Taiping's previous arrival.
• Dongfang Yuejian explained that the Wilderness had many entrances, that unsafe entrances could lead to different landing places, and that the True Martial Barrier had once sealed off regions connected to True Martial Heaven.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi entered the Wilderness and discovered that they had arrived at night, when Yin Gods posed a serious threat. They decided to shelter in an abandoned courtyard until morning, and Xuanzhi used a hidden Bodhi Leaf treasure to inspect its rear courtyard.

• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian discussed how the Wilderness differed between heavens, and Xu Taiping worried that True Martial Heaven’s harsher suppression meant its Yin Gods were especially dangerous.
• Master Xuanzhi suggested that arriving during the day would avoid much of the danger, but the three landed in the Wilderness at night.
• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian inspected the abandoned courtyard’s front area and agreed to stay there if the rear courtyard proved safe.
• Master Xuanzhi volunteered to inspect the rear courtyard and disappeared using the Cloud-Hidden Temple’s Bodhi Leaf treasure.
• Master Xuanzhi explained that using the Bodhi Leaf required Buddha fate power, which he had exhausted while treating Dongfang Yuejian’s injuries in the Old Dragon Court.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi used a Bodhi Leaf concealment spell to investigate the rear courtyard and overheard two cultivators discussing Ghost Night. As rhythmic knocking sounded at the front gate, Xuanzhi sensed something unclean outside.

• Xuanzhi used a Bodhi Leaf to conceal himself, Xu Taiping, and Dongfang Yuejian, then explained how Cloud-Hidden Temple cultivators used Buddha fate power.
• Xu Taiping heard a gate open in the rear courtyard, and Xuanzhi listened with his Golden Alms Bowl as two men entered.
• Dongfang Yuejian explained that Ghost Night was the name cultivators gave to the Wilderness at night.
• Xu Taiping heard footsteps approach the courtyard gate, and a series of rhythmic knocks sounded from outside.
• Xuanzhi warned Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian to stay silent because he sensed something unclean beyond the gate.

Xu Taiping and his companions sought shelter from a knocking Yin God, but a chilling wind seeped into the hall and overwhelmed the Origin Beginning Clone with terror. Xu Taiping escaped by returning to his true body, then reentered the clone and erased the fear, only for the terror to arise again when he felt the chill.

• Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi heard cultivators warn that a Yin God was knocking and withdrew into the ruined temple’s main hall.
• Xu Taiping set down the Taixuan Demon-Suppressing Coffin while Dongfang Yuejian watched the courtyard and reported that the knocking had stopped.
• A cold wind poured beneath the hall door, and Dongfang Yuejian warned Xu Taiping not to stir his qi and blood or True Essence because Yin Gods sensed fluctuations in aura.
• The growing fear overwhelmed Xu Taiping’s Origin Beginning Clone, breaking his spiritual connection and returning his spiritual sense to his true body inside the Demon-Suppressing Coffin.
• Xu Taiping reentered the clone and erased the fear with the Origin Beginning Clone Technique, but the terror arose again when the clone felt the chill.

Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Returning Blade to Sheath Form to shield himself, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi from the room’s mind-corrupting chill. Master Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian awoke, but the protective light curtains began to break, and Xu Taiping struggled to sustain the technique.

• Xu Taiping saw Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi trapped in fear while his own spiritual sense was swallowed by darkness and an eerie green eye.
• He realized the chill was causing the fear and decided that merely waking his companions would not solve the danger.
• Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade’s Returning Blade to Sheath Form, creating eighteen golden light curtains that kept the chill outside.
• Master Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian regained consciousness, and Dongfang Yuejian recognized the blade technique.
• The outermost light curtain shattered under the chill, while Xu Taiping warned that maintaining the technique consumed great amounts of true essence and divine soul power.

Xu Taiping and his companions used Dongfang Yuejian’s Ten-Crow Umbrella to ward off a Yin God, but a woman identified as Madam Lu appeared at the courtyard gate and destroyed the umbrella. Xu Taiping drove back the returning chill with his Life-Taking Blade and asked Dongfang Yuejian to explain Madam Lu’s origins.

• Dongfang Yuejian summoned the Ten-Crow Umbrella, which dispelled the Yin God’s chill and let Xu Taiping lower his guard.
• Xu Taiping saw two cultivators under the Yin God’s influence approach and open the courtyard gate.
• A hooded woman with an eerie green lantern appeared, and Dongfang Yuejian feared she was Madam Lu.
• Madam Lu touched the two cultivators, causing their heads to burst into eerie green light, then beckoned Xu Taiping to come to her.
• Madam Lu destroyed the Ten-Crow Umbrella before Dongfang Yuejian could finish her warning, and Xu Taiping used the Life-Taking Blade to repel the chill and asked who she was.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi defended themselves from Madam Lu, a ghost servant empowered by the Yin God Su Yan. After Xuanzhi revealed the Cloud-Hidden Temple’s powerful Seven-Character Great Light-Cleansing Mantra, Xu Taiping and Dongfang refused to spend it on Madam Lu, and Dongfang took up the defense with the Ten-Crow Umbrella.

• Dongfang Yuejian explained that Madam Lu served the Yin God Su Yan and wielded the dangerous Divine Intents Headless and Entering Dreams.
• Xu Taiping learned that Madam Lu had marked him with Entering Dreams and that they needed to hold out until dawn for the mark to vanish.
• Master Xuanzhi offered to use the Cloud-Hidden Temple’s Seven-Character Great Light-Cleansing Mantra, revealing that its founder had used it to destroy a branch of the Demon Abyss.
• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian refused to spend Xuanzhi’s Śarīra and mantra on Madam Lu, choosing to endure the attack themselves.
• Dongfang Yuejian consumed a Lotus Seed and summoned the Ten-Crow Umbrella, sweeping away the cold and easing the pressure on Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping discovered that he and his companions were inside a Yin God’s stomach, despite seeing the courtyard around them, and learned that they could survive temporarily inside the Demon-Suppressing Coffin. The Lotus Eye pointed out that Madam Lu’s appearance at the gate was suspiciously well-timed, leaving Xu Taiping wondering who had brought them together.

• Xu Taiping saw the courtyard weeds wither and the soil grow damp while Madam Lu remained at the entrance.
• The Lotus Eye awakened and warned Xu Taiping to look beneath his feet, revealing that the group was inside a monster’s stomach.
• Xu Taiping concealed what he saw from Master Xuanzhi and Dongfang Yuejian, then learned from the Lotus Eye that their captor was a Yin God whose power would absorb them within the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• The Lotus Eye said the Demon-Suppressing Coffin could protect all three of them temporarily, but warned that their predicament was too coincidental.
• Xu Taiping realized someone might have deliberately gathered them there and wondered who was responsible.

Xu Taiping used the unwithering golden lotus in his sea of consciousness to divine that Ningchan Cave was tied to their predicament and uncovered a plot involving Elder Xunqi and Madam Lu. The vision ended on a lotus pond, leaving Xu Taiping with more questions about the forces threatening them.

• The Lotus Eye told Xu Taiping to seek answers in the golden lotus, and Xu Taiping realized it had not withered because the calamity linked to Ningchan Cave remained unresolved.
• Xu Taiping opened the golden lotus and saw Elder Lu report to Elder Xun that Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi had entered the Wilderness.
• Elder Xun ordered Elder Lu, Thousand Threads, and Lü Hu to join the Ningchan Cave disciples in the Wilderness.
• Xu Taiping saw Elder Xunqi bargain with Madam Lu, who said she needed three hundred divine souls to fully awaken her lord, Su Yan.
• Madam Lu agreed to send clones to the Yin Residence after Xunqi promised to arrange Heaven Questioning Realm cultivators among the victims.
• The vision shifted from Madam Lu and Xunqi to a lotus pond.

Xu Taiping opened the first of his three golden lotuses and revealed the ancient sword Ten Thousand Edges, but it failed to break the Yin God's divine intent. The Yin Residence revealed itself as the inside of a Yin God, and Xu Taiping opened the second lotus as the danger grew.

• Xu Taiping realized the Lotus Eye might be pointing him toward the three unopened golden lotuses and asked Dongfang Yuejian to hold out longer.
• Xu Taiping opened a golden lotus and revealed Ten Thousand Edges, a sword Dongfang Yuejian recognized as a divine weapon lost with the ancient Sword Immortal Qu Yang.
• Xu Taiping struck the hall's central wall with Ten Thousand Edges, but the sword left no mark.
• The Yin God's decay aura spread through the hall, and the walls turned into writhing flesh.
• Dongfang Yuejian recognized the place as the legendary Yin Residence, while Xu Taiping warned they would become one with the Yin God if they did not escape within half an incense stick.
• Xu Taiping opened the second golden lotus, revealing another treasure.

Xu Taiping used the jade carving knife Guizang to inscribe a line that made the three companions unknown to everyone in the realm. The haunted house continued to threaten them, but the inscription offered a way to hide until dawn.

• Xu Taiping rejected the pill furnace, and Dongfang Yuejian recognized the ancient inscriptions on it as a pill recipe.
• As the haunted house awakened and reached for them, Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi to wait and said they could shelter in his black coffin if his last treasure failed.
• Xu Taiping revealed a jade carving knife that Dongfang Yuejian identified as the legendary Guizang, said to sever karma.
• Xu Taiping explained that karma could not be severed but could be forgotten, then used Guizang and thirteen Earth Fruit Seeds to carve a twelve-character inscription into the air.
• Xu Taiping completed the line, “In this realm, no one shall know of us three.”

Xu Taiping used Guicang’s Divine Concealment to make the beings in Wilderness Heaven forget him and his companions, causing Madam Lu to leave. He explained the weapon’s limits and the cost of using it, while Dongfang Yuejian suggested they exploit their three days of concealment to roam Wilderness Heaven.

• Xu Taiping carved an edict with Guicang, and the flesh and blood on the walls vanished as Madam Lu led the two headless corpses away without sensing the group.
• Xu Taiping explained that Guicang was a fragment of an ancient Xiantian Spirit Treasure and described the limits of its Returning to Concealment ability.
• Xu Taiping realized that Divine Concealment had dimmed eleven of the thirteen soul rings tied to his life and resolved to avoid using it again before advancing his cultivation.
• Dongfang Yuejian asked whether the knife was Guicang, and Xu Taiping confirmed it while declining to explain its origins.
• Master Xuanzhi reported that Madam Lu could not sense him even when he walked beside her, and Xu Taiping warned that the concealment would last only three days.
• Dongfang Yuejian proposed using their three days of concealment to roam freely through Wilderness Heaven.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi escaped the yin residence under the Blade of Guicang’s Divine Shadow Power, but Xu Taiping worried about Madam Lu and Xunqi’s plan to awaken the Yin God Su Yan. Dongfang Yuejian revealed that Su Yan’s awakening had caused devastating nightmares throughout the Wilderness, leaving the threat to their journey unresolved.

• Xu Taiping explained that the Divine Shadow Power prevented them from using much true essence or divine soul power, so the group planned to travel to the Thousand Buddha Kingdom while it lasted.
• Xu Taiping left the yin residence with Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi, troubled by what he had seen of Madam Lu and Xunqi’s scheme to awaken Su Yan.
• Dongfang Yuejian explained that Su Yan slept atop gold essence stone veins and could produce metal essence, including the rare primordial chaos metal essence used to forge Great Dao Divine Weapons.
• Xu Taiping asked what would happen if Su Yan awakened, and Dongfang Yuejian warned that his origin divine intent had once plunged the Wilderness into nightmares that exhausted souls and killed living beings.

Xu Taiping shared what he knew about the Yin God Su Yan's possible awakening and transformed into his Wilderness Lion Body to pursue Ghost Servant Madam Lu with Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi. They caught up with her as her clones gathered nearly three hundred captured cultivators, bringing the threat of Su Yan's awakening close.

• Xu Taiping sent Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi a Divine Soul Mark showing the danger posed by the Yin God Su Yan's awakening.
• Xu Taiping transformed into his Wilderness Lion Body and carried Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi after Madam Lu.
• Xu Taiping caught up with Madam Lu and her Headless Ghosts at a fork in the road, where they had stopped to wait for her other clones.
• Green flames converged from the branching roads, and Dongfang Yuejian realized Madam Lu had captured nearly three hundred cultivators in one night.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi followed Madam Lu and the Headless Ghosts, but her revealed power made them doubt they could stop her by force. Dongfang Yuejian found a chapter about Su Yan in her ancestor’s collection and began searching it for a weakness.

• Madam Lu’s clones merged into her true body, whose cold aura froze the surrounding area and frightened Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Master Xuanzhi.
• Madam Lu led nearly three hundred Headless Ghosts toward Su Yan, and Xu Taiping continued following them while asking Dongfang Yuejian how else they might stop Su Yan from awakening.
• Dongfang Yuejian searched the Dongfang Household Ancestor’s collection through a Jade Slip and shared her dream of traveling the world like Dongfang Daoyuan.
• Xu Taiping encouraged Dongfang Yuejian, telling her that knowing why she cultivated set her apart from most cultivators.
• Dongfang Yuejian found a chapter about Su Yan in the Wilderness Yin Ghost Record and began checking it for the Yin God’s weaknesses.