Recaps

Xu Taiping watched visions recorded in a divine soul mark and saw two brothers attempt the Deity-Summoning Technique, which ended with Gu Yang burned to death after Gu Yu broke focus. He suspected the later visions were connected to the Dragon-Slaying Assembly and the Immortal Burial Ruins, but the final vision revealed a silver dragon that noticed him watching.

• Gu Yang and Gu Yu swore an oath and began the Deity-Summoning Technique, but illusions tested their resolve.
• Gu Yu rushed toward an illusion of their teacher, and when it shattered, Gu Yang was engulfed in flames and died.
• Xu Taiping considered whether the brothers were connected to the upcoming Dragon-Slaying Assembly, then set aside the first vision and viewed the next three scenes of a mossy well, a bare elm, and a vast lake.
• Xu Taiping opened the final vision and saw a mountain-sized silver dragon sprawled across a lake.
• The silver dragon opened its blazing eyes and addressed Xu Taiping for spying on it.

Xu Taiping entered the River of Time to confront the silver dragon after Lotus Eye explained how the Demon-Suppressing Coffin and Kunwu Sword could return him to the same moment. The silver dragon destroyed Xu Taiping’s dragon whale physique with a single glance, and Xu Taiping prepared to try again with a Great Sage Realm physique.

• Lotus Eye told Xu Taiping that the erased scene still left a trace in the River of Time and that he could use it to challenge the silver dragon repeatedly.
• Xu Taiping activated the Demon-Suppressing Coffin with Demon Emperor Jiao’s heart apertures and used the Kunwu Sword to enter the Ice Lake scene.
• Xu Taiping climbed out of the buried coffin and faced the silver dragon in its Dao Field.
• The silver dragon opened its eyes and destroyed Xu Taiping’s dragon whale physique with a single glance, returning him to the coffin.
• Xu Taiping realized he needed to try again with a Great Sage Realm physique.

Xu Taiping entered the Silver Dragon's Lair with a Great Sage Realm physique and confronted the silver dragon's devastating eye-based attacks. Trapped between two crushing forces of mountain spirit power, he used the cauldron-lifting technique to halt them and believed he could eventually overcome the pressure.

• Xu Taiping raised his Dragon Whale Physique to the Great Sage Realm and emerged from the Demon-Suppressing Coffin, finding that the lair's bitter wind could no longer harm him.
• Xu Taiping rushed toward the silver dragon and saw its opened eyes unleash a blade-like gaze that severed his bull demon phantom.
• Xu Taiping punched through a Frost Giant Axe summoned by the silver dragon and flew closer to it.
• As the silver dragon closed its eyes, Xu Taiping was caught between two immense forces of mountain spirit power and tried to resist them with the Ancestral Sage Fist's Mountain-Bearing Bearing.
• Xu Taiping applied the cauldron-lifting technique to halt the crushing forces and resolved to adjust his strength and breathing until he could overcome them.

After the silver dragon's Heaven-Cleaving power killed Xu Taiping, he returned from the River of Time and learned that enduring it could trigger a dangerous backlash against the dragon. He resolved to keep trying and entered the frozen lake again to challenge the silver dragon.

• The silver dragon increased the mountain spirit power of its Heaven-Cleaving attack, and Xu Taiping's body burst apart under the pressure.
• Xu Taiping returned to the Demon-Suppressing Coffin and learned from the Lotus Eye that little time had passed in reality, though repeated trips consumed divine essence and divine soul power.
• Xu Taiping told the Lotus Eye he had endured the Heaven-Cleaving power for five or six breaths and planned to keep practicing until he found a weakness.
• The Lotus Eye explained that if a true dragon failed to close its eyes within the time it took to brew a cup of tea, its Heaven-Cleaving power could backlash and blind it or burst its eyeballs.
• Xu Taiping re-entered the River of Time, opened the Demon-Suppressing Coffin, and sprinted toward the silver dragon using the Star-Transposing Step.

Dongfang Yuejian secured the clan elders’ support and their promise to keep their descendants in line while she entered the Immortal Burial Ruins for the Dragon-Slaying Assembly. After a violent eruption from Xu Taiping’s Dragon-Trapping Tower, he assured her and Xuanzhi he was unharmed, then showed the Lotus Eye and Blade Ghost what had happened in the River of Time.

• Dongfang Yuejian reassured the clan elders that Xu Taiping would join her and Master Xuanzhi at the Dragon-Slaying Assembly.
• Dongfang Su promised to manage the Dongfang Household while Dongfang Yuejian was away, and Dongfang Yan warned the elders to restrain their descendants.
• The clan elders pledged to keep their branches in line, and Dongfang Yuejian vowed that she, Xu Taiping, and Master Xuanzhi would pursue the Chief’s seat.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi heard a tremendous boom from the Dragon-Trapping Tower and feared something had gone wrong with Xu Taiping’s cultivation.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi that he was unharmed, then displayed what had happened in the River of Time to the Lotus Eye and Blade Ghost through the Moonshadow Stone.

Xu Taiping broke the Silver Dragon’s Heaven-Cleaving power and strengthened his Great Sage Realm physique before joining the teams gathered at Cloud-Plucking Summit for the final test ahead of the Buried Immortal Ruins. There, he wagered a transferable top-three reward against the Heartless Demon Emperor in a test of whose physique could withstand the Innate Gang Wind.

• Xu Taiping endured the Silver Dragon’s Heaven-Cleaving power until its eye burst, raising his Great Sage Realm physique by another stage.
• Two days later, eighteen teams gathered at Cloud-Plucking Summit, where the Profound Elixir Palace used the dangerous Innate Gang Wind as a final test before the Buried Immortal Ruins.
• Fu Kui explained that the wind was meant to weed out cultivators unfit to enter the ruins, and the teams began using magic power to defend themselves.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to compare their physiques, and Xu Taiping wagered a transferable item from the Ranking Ascension rewards.
• Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor stood unscathed through the fierce wind while the other cultivators struggled to withstand it.

Xu Taiping agreed to withstand the Profound Elixir Palace’s full mountain-and-river spiritual qi turned into innate gang wind, preparing for his first clash with the Nine Abysses at the Dragon-Slaying Assembly. At the Dragon-Suppressing Platform, Chu Xiaoxiao and Lu Yun and Lu Wen watched the summit through an illusory image as the assembly’s waiting period began.

• Jiang Xuanfeng told Xu Taiping that the Heavenly Journey Ancestor wanted to test how much gang wind his physique could endure, and Xu Taiping said he could withstand the palace’s full force.
• Jiang Xuanfeng warned Xu Taiping that the palace would soon turn all its mountain-and-river spiritual qi into innate gang qi and sweep it over Cloud-Plucking Summit.
• The gang wind struck Xu Taiping hard enough to cause a trace of pain, while other cultivators struggled to resist it, so he asked Jiang Xuanfeng to avoid hitting those behind him.
• Xu Taiping focused on using his qi and blood to counter the gang wind, beginning his first clash with the Nine Abysses at the assembly.
• At Spring Rain Pavilion, Chu Xiaoxiao, Lu Yun, and Lu Wen watched the summit on the illusory image, and Chu Xiaoxiao explained that the teams and demon cultivators had to wait before the assembly began.

Lu Yun, Lu Wen, and Chu Xiaoxiao watched the cultivators endure the deadly Gang Wind atop Cloud-Plucking Summit as Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor prepared to test their physiques. Chu Xiaoxiao wagered her entire fortune on Xu Taiping, just as a much fiercer gale began.

• Lu Wen and Chu Xiaoxiao explained that the Gang Wind was the final trial before the Dragon-Slaying Assembly and reassured Lu Yun that Xu Taiping could withstand it.
• The cultivators on Cloud-Plucking Summit began using magic power against the Gang Wind, while Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor continued to endure it without doing so.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to compare their physiques, and Xu Taiping accepted and wagered the rewards for the Ranking Ascension's top three places.
• Chu Xiaoxiao discovered that cultivators were taking bets, then wagered all five hundred thousand of her Gold Essence Coins on Xu Taiping winning.
• Lu Yun and Lu Wen declined Chu Xiaoxiao's offer to join her bet, and a fiercer gale began as Chu Xiaoxiao anticipated the contest's outcome.

Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor endured repeated blasts of innate Gang Qi on Cloud-Plucking Summit without using magic power. As a Dragon Sucking Water phenomenon gathered mountain and river spiritual Qi above Profound Elixir Palace, Chu Xiaoxiao feared the ensuing storm would injure them both.

• Fierce winds on Cloud-Plucking Summit shattered five cultivators' Body-Protecting Golden Light, while Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor withstood the gust without using magic power.
• Lu Yun explained that the summit's preliminary trial was meant to make cultivators with insufficient cultivation withdraw, and Chu Xiaoxiao said Xu Taiping had never lost a challenge he had accepted.
• A stronger gust extinguished at least half the cultivators' Body-Protecting Golden Light before their magic power restored it, while Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor again endured the winds unaided.
• Mountain and river spiritual Qi rose from Dragon-Suppressing Platform toward Cloud-Plucking Summit, where Chu Xiaoxiao sensed a dragon-shaped cloud drawing in Profound Elixir Palace's spiritual Qi.
• Lu Yun identified the phenomenon as Dragon Sucking Water and warned that its innate Gang winds would rain down across the immortal mansion, striking Cloud-Plucking Summit first.
• Chu Xiaoxiao feared Xu Taiping and the Heartless Demon Emperor could both be injured, while Lu Wen thought they would stop relying on their bodies and she replied that they might not.

Xu Taiping faced the dragon-shaped storm at Cloud-Plucking Summit without using magic power, then revealed his Crimson Scales Fire Dragon body to destroy the giant dragon of innate gang qi. He returned to human form as the heavens and earth fell silent.

• Chu Yu and a Zhu Family elder warned the cultivators that the dragon-shaped cloud would unleash deadly innate gang qi, and the cultivators prepared their treasures and abilities.
• Xu Taiping’s qi and blood protected Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi as the storm’s innate gang qi rained down.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor revealed his Demon God Body and attacked the descending qi dragon, but it swallowed and destroyed the upper half of his body.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor accused Xu Taiping of conspiring with the Profound Elixir Palace, and Xu Taiping charged the qi dragon with his fist.
• Xu Taiping transformed into a Crimson Scales Fire Dragon, struck the qi dragon back, and tore it apart as his flames burned away its innate gang qi.
• Xu Taiping returned to human form and descended to the ground.

Xu Taiping defeated the Heartless Demon Emperor and joined the other ranked cultivators as they were transported to the Immortal Burial Ruins for the Dragon-Slaying Assembly. The chapter left him wondering whether a battered chest that fell beside him contained his ranking ascension reward.

• Xu Taiping revealed he could assume his true dragon body without his rage essence clone, then confirmed the Heartless Demon Emperor had lost their wager.
• Feng Tianxing revealed he had planted divine sense in the Heartless Demon Emperor and promised the Dragon-Slaying Ranking's representative that he would prevent the Nine Abysses from taking the chief's seat.
• Jiang Xuanfeng gave the ranked cultivators pills and announced they would be transported to the abandoned Dragon King Temple in Hongling Town.
• Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, Xuanzhi, and the other cultivators were transported to the Immortal Burial Ruins.
• A battered wooden chest fell beside Xu Taiping, who wondered whether it held the ranking ascension reward.

Jiang Xuanfeng revealed that the Immortal Burial Ruins lay within a hidden painting and explained the restrictions governing cultivators who entered. The cultivators opened their reward chests and learned they would begin with ordinary supplies and face strict rules against interfering in mortal affairs.

• Jiang Xuanfeng warned everyone to remain in the Dragon King Temple and revealed that the Mountain and River Vein Map was the true entrance to the Immortal Burial Ruins.
• Jiang Xuanfeng explained that the temple was a protected minor world, and that visitors would forget the Immortal Burial Map after leaving.
• Fu Kui asked to open the reward chests later, but Fu De struck and kicked him after his remark angered the other cultivators.
• At Jiang Xuanfeng's suggestion, the Heartless Demon Emperor opened the Nine Abysses' chest, revealing ordinary supplies and a letter.
• Jiang Xuanfeng explained that entrants could use no power beyond Gate Opening Realm or martial master levels, and that summoned cultivators had to fulfill their summoners' wishes before regaining their powers.
• Jiang Xuanfeng warned that entrants must not interfere in disputes or commit crimes against the Immortal Burial Ruins' mortals, or they would face mortal punishment before expulsion.

Xu Taiping used the Jade Disc to learn that the Heartless Demon Emperor had hidden a Fireball Talisman in an envelope, then guided Dongfang Yuejian to choose it. As Jiang Xuanfeng prepared the teams to enter the Immortal Burial Ruins, Xu Taiping resolved to beware of Qing He.

• The Heartless Demon Emperor invited Xu Taiping to choose an item from the chest, and Xu Taiping sensed his thoughts through the Jade Disc.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian to choose the envelope, and she obtained it despite the Heartless Demon Emperor's attempt to keep her from inspecting the chest.
• Dongfang Yuejian opened the envelope and revealed a Fireball Talisman, which Jiang Xuanfeng confirmed could be used in the Immortal Burial Ruins.
• Qing He assured the Heartless Demon Emperor that he could handle any danger with his fists, and Xu Taiping secretly resolved not to underestimate him.
• Jiang Xuanfeng gathered the eighteen teams and lit incense before explaining that the strongest mortal summoners would soon appear in his painting scroll.

Jiang Xuanfeng explained the Dragon-Slaying Assembly, the role of Dragon Catchers, and the dangers of entering the Immortal Burial Ruins. As the first deity summoning began, Pang Zhong appeared in the Painting Scroll and asked an immortal to save Blazing Sun City.

• Jiang Xuanfeng explained that mortals’ pure Qi and Blood Power helped suppress the Dragon Clan’s fortune and that cultivators entered the Immortal Burial Ruins to slay True Dragons.
• Jiang Xuanfeng revealed that the current Silver Dragon had survived three Dragon-Slaying Assemblies, and Xu Taiping recognized it as the dragon he had fought in the River of Light and Shadow.
• Jiang Xuanfeng warned that the dragon slayers had to bring their Dragon Catchers and seek opportunities to strengthen them before going to Ten Thousand Islands Lake.
• Xu Taiping reasoned that the Nine Abysses had sought first place in the Ranking Ascension to choose a Dragon Catcher first.
• Jiang Xuanfeng warned that those entering the Immortal Burial Ruins could not contact the outside world and would be trapped there for sixty years if they failed to slay the dragon.
• Pang Zhong appeared in the Painting Scroll and asked an immortal to save the three hundred thousand people of Blazing Sun City from fire and flood.

At the Dragon-Slaying Assembly, Pang Zhong offered his service and a family map in exchange for help, drawing the Nine Abysses’ interest. Li Sisi then emerged as another Dragon Catcher candidate, and Jiang Xuanfeng explained that the Immortal Burial Ruins contained abundant treasures that cultivators could bring back to Shangqing.

• Pang Zhong offered himself and the Pang lineage’s turtle-shell map to the Upper Immortals if they fulfilled his wish.
• Dongfang Yuejian noted that the first-ranked candidate would likely choose Pang Zhong, while the three from the Nine Abysses watched him covetously.
• Jiang Xuanfeng introduced Li Sisi, who offered her household’s fortune, treasures, and thirty-six Dragon-Slaying Guards in exchange for a cure for her father’s Gu Poison.
• Xu Taiping and the other cultivators marveled at the rare treasures in Li Sisi’s offerings, and Jiang Xuanfeng explained that spiritual treasures grew freely in the Immortal Burial Ruins despite the sealed spiritual energy.
• Fu Kui asked whether cultivators could bring the treasures and exotic beasts they found back to Shangqing, and Jiang Xuanfeng said they could.

At the Dragon-Slaying Assembly, Fu Kui claimed Li Sisi for the Fu Household as the final deity summoner appeared. Xu Taiping recognized the impoverished old man, Gu Yu, as one of the brothers from the Divine Soul Mark and realized he was still seeking power to avenge his teacher.

• Jiang Xuanfeng told Fu Kui that the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures required exchanging military merits earned in the dragon-slaying campaign.
• Fu Kui declared that the Fu Household would take Li Sisi, while Fu De and Fu Wei backed him.
• The final deity summoner appeared as a one-eyed old farmer with meager offerings, and Dongfang Yuejian explained that he had drawn his formation with hearth ash from a thousand households.
• Gu Yu swore to sacrifice his body, soul, and chance at reincarnation to avenge the burning of the Red Carp Library and kill the eight villains of Eight Heroes Valley.
• Xu Taiping recognized Gu Yu from the Divine Soul Mark and realized he had not given up seeking revenge for his teacher.

Gu Yu desperately tried to prove his worth to the Deity-Summoning Formation, revealing the resolve beneath his aging body. Xu Taiping recognized the steadfastness in Gu Yu’s eyes and considered choosing him, prompting Dongfang Yuejian to ask if he intended to do so.

• Gu Yu displayed his wounds, swung a saber, and repeatedly smashed a rock against his head to demonstrate his courage and toughness, drawing laughter from the cultivators.
• After Gu Yu broke the rock, he collapsed in grief over his brother and teacher and lamented that the formation had activated too late.
• Gu Yu ate poisonous monkshood to restore his body’s strength, then unleashed a powerful saber slash and declared that he would become a dragon-slaying blade for the Upper Realm.
• Xu Taiping recognized the resolve in Gu Yu’s eyes as the same determination he had seen in the Treading the Sea Army and the seniors of Golden Court Grotto-Heaven.
• Dongfang Yuejian asked Xu Taiping whether he was going to choose Gu Yu.

Xu Taiping urged Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi to choose a Dragon Catcher based on their resolve to face the Silver Dragon, not merely their advantages in the Immortal Burial Ruins. After the Nine Abyss chose Pang Zhong, the Heartless Demon Emperor challenged Xu Taiping to meet him in the ruins.

• Dongfang Yuejian explained why she and Xuanzhi favored Li Sisi, citing her wealth, Dragon Catcher heritage, and Dragon-Slaying Guards.
• Xu Taiping questioned whether Li Sisi could be trusted in battle and argued that Gu Yu's motive for summoning a deity was purer.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi trusted Xu Taiping to make their choice, recalling their survival at Jiaye Temple.
• Jiang Xuanfeng gave the Nine Abyss the first choice, and the Heartless Demon Emperor selected Pang Zhong.
• The Heartless Demon Emperor pressed his hand against Pang Zhong's image and told Xu Taiping they would meet in the Immortal Burial Ruins.

Xu Taiping chose Gu Yu of Hongling Town as his Dragon Catcher and entered the Deity-Summoning Formation with Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi. Gu Yu wept with relief at their arrival, and the Battle Merit Ledger revealed his request: demand justice from the Eight Evils of Eight Heroes Valley.

• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that the Heartless Demon Emperor had tortured Jiang Xuanfeng's eldest senior brother, Xu Song, to death.
• Xu Taiping ignored the cultivators' suggestions and chose Gu Yu of Hongling Town, then entered the painting with Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi.
• Xu Taiping and his companions appeared in Gu Yu's courtyard, where they saw the old man's battle scars and sensed his stubborn vitality.
• Gu Yu covered his face and wept, telling his brother that the people he had waited for had finally arrived.
• The Deity-Summoning Formation produced a Battle Merit Ledger that recorded Gu Yu's request for justice from the Eight Evils of Eight Heroes Valley and offered three hundred battle merits.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi met Gu Yu of Hongling Town and agreed to investigate Eight Heroes Valley. After eating Gu Yu’s steamed buns, they discovered the ordinary-looking food greatly increased their Qi and Blood Power, leaving them wondering whether his home concealed an opportunity.

• Dongfang Yuejian told Xu Taiping that the ledger contained battle merits that could be exchanged for treasures, and Xu Taiping put it away.
• Xu Taiping confirmed Gu Yu’s identity, and Dongfang Yuejian asked him to wait at home while they went to Eight Heroes Valley.
• The three became intensely hungry, so Gu Yu gave them three steamed buns and went to pick jujubes for them.
• Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi discovered that the buns rapidly replenished Qi and Blood Power, and Dongfang Yuejian had to stop eating before it overwhelmed her.
• Dongfang Yuejian ruled out ordinary food in the Immortal Burial Ruins having this effect, and Xuanzhi wondered whether Gu Yu’s poor household concealed an opportunity.

Xu Taiping, Dongfang Yuejian, and Xuanzhi discovered that Gu Yu’s jujubes contained extraordinarily pure spiritual power, though Gu Yu considered them ordinary. Gu Yu revealed he had rarely shared his food with anyone, and the three realized he carried a priceless treasure without knowing it.

• Gu Yu offered the three Upper Immortals green jujubes, and Xu Taiping tasted one, absorbing a surge of pure spiritual power.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi ate jujubes too and marveled that their spiritual power surpassed heaven-grade Spirit Pills.
• Gu Yu brought the three bowls of well water and explained that he had spent his money searching for a Dragon-Slaying method, leaving him unable to afford food for himself.
• Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi shared their steamed buns with Gu Yu, who said the bun tasted ordinary and showed no apparent reaction.
• Gu Yu explained that his jujubes kept him from feeling hungry for a day or two and that few people visited his supposedly haunted courtyard.
• Dongfang Yuejian concluded that Gu Yu carried a priceless treasure without realizing it.

Xu Taiping and his companions discovered that Gu Yu's ancient well contained water with power like the Yaoguang Fruit and concealed an earth vein eye. Gu Yu explained his tragic family history and said he had returned for sixty years to eat jujubes from the courtyard tree on the anniversary of his brother's death.

• Dongfang Yuejian drank from Gu Yu's well and discovered that its water restored true essence, qi and blood, and divine soul power.
• Xu Taiping realized the well water's spiritual power resembled the Yaoguang Fruit's, and he and his companions followed Gu Yu to the courtyard well.
• Xuanzhi tapped his Eight-Tone Withered Wood Fish, revealing energy from a spirit spring source connected to an underground spiritual vein.
• Dongfang Yuejian identified an earth vein eye beneath the well, and Xu Taiping confirmed its golden sign in the water.
• Gu Yu told Xu Taiping that his parents died when he was young, his elder brother died in a Deity-Summoning Formation, and he had returned yearly to eat the courtyard jujubes on his brother's death anniversary.

Xu Taiping discovered that Gu Yu’s bones stored vast spiritual power and that he possessed dormant divine-human variant bone, giving him extraordinary martial potential. After awakening it, Xu Taiping offered to teach him blade techniques, and Gu Yu had yet to answer.

• Xu Taiping tested Gu Yu’s body and found that his bones could repel his true qi.
• Xu Taiping sent another trace of true essence into Gu Yu and sensed the immense spiritual power stored in his bones.
• The Lotus Eye explained that Gu Yu had divine-human variant bone, which could make him invincible among the Immortal-Burying Ruins’ martial artists once awakened.
• Gu Yu offered to guide the group to Ten Thousand Islands Lake, saying he had seen the demon dragon twice.
• Xu Taiping asked Gu Yu whether he wanted to learn a set of blade techniques that could make him invincible under heaven.

Xu Taiping pressed Gu Yu to learn his blade techniques and avenge Teacher Red Carp by facing the eight villains of Eight Heroes Valley himself. After revisiting a memory of Teacher Red Carp and Gu Yang urging him to be brave, Gu Yu woke beside the old well, and Xu Taiping asked whether he had made up his mind.

• Xu Taiping told Gu Yu that he was uniquely suited to learn his blade techniques, but would have to avenge Teacher Red Carp himself, while Dongfang Yuejian and Master Xuanzhi questioned the demand.
• Xu Taiping reminded Gu Yu of Teacher Red Carp's death and asked what Gu Yang would have chosen, forcing Gu Yu to confront his fear and regret.
• Gu Yu relived an afternoon from his youth when Teacher Red Carp and Gu Yang encouraged him to jump from an elm tree, recalling how he had risked himself to draw wild dogs away from his friends.
• Gu Yu leaped from the tree in the memory and woke beside the old well, where Master Xuanzhi helped him up and explained that the Headless Grass poison had not harmed him.
• Xu Taiping asked Gu Yu whether he had decided to learn the blade techniques and take revenge himself.

Xu Taiping persuaded Gu Yu to learn his blade techniques and avenge Red Carp, then revealed that Gu Yu was born with a rare divine-human variant bone. Xuanzhi suspected Gu Yu had inherited the fortune sealed within the Immortal Burial Ruins.

• Gu Yu chose to learn Xu Taiping's blade techniques and vowed to avenge Red Carp by killing the eight villains of Eight Heroes Valley.
• Xu Taiping postponed accepting Gu Yu as his disciple until Gu Yu had avenged his teacher.
• Dongfang Yuejian gave Gu Yu money to buy food and asked him to look for a horse.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi that Gu Yu possessed an extraordinary root bone.
• Xu Taiping identified Gu Yu's constitution as a divine-human variant bone, and Xuanzhi suggested that Gu Yu held the fortune sealed within the Immortal Burial Ruins.