Arc 28Chapters 676–700
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Xu Qingtong encouraged Du Siwen to cultivate the Nine Immortals Scripture and studied Spirit Realm lore and talisman-making. After realizing his divine sense was the obstacle to crafting an escape talisman, he used the True Origin Scripture to begin transforming it and resumed drawing a talisman.
Xu Qingtong mastered Immortal Talisman crafting, then visited Du Siwen and Dongfang Hui. Dongfang Hui revealed that she could no longer remember her past, including her sect and master.
Xu Qingtong comforted the amnesiac Dongfang Hui, helped her with cultivation, and searched Sea Cloud Hall for clues about the Spirit Realm. Dongfang Hui later confronted Du Siwen about Xu Qingtong’s feelings and asked what had happened after she arrived in Central Province.
Du Siwen told Dongfang Hui the truth about her past with Xu Qingtong, including how Dongfang Hui had injured him and how he and Du Siwen became Dao companions. She persuaded Dongfang Hui to stay and consider becoming Xu Qingtong’s Dao companion too, then told Xu Qingtong that Dongfang Hui had planned to leave, leaving him anxious about her safety.
Du Siwen arranged for Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui to become Dao Companions, and the two reunited lovers shared the story of their past. They planned to revisit Gloomwind Valley together after returning to Central Province.
Xu Qingtong and Du Siwen chose to remain with Dongfang Hui on Purple Rosy Clouds Island, where they cultivated for ten years. As Xu Qingtong explored the Way of Space, eating Mandui Fruits finally triggered a distinct change within him.
After consuming Mandui Fruits, Xu Qingtong studied spatial laws in the dangerous region above the Nine Heavens and learned to stabilize a spatial fluctuation. After two months, he returned to the Ink Bamboo Studio, where he discovered a weak point in its formation and realized how Xiao Bai broke formations.
Xu Qingtong returned to the Ink Bamboo Studio after learning to use spatial power to breach its formation, and discovered that Dongfang Hui had reached a cultivation bottleneck. He and Du Siwen agreed to take her back to Central Province for experience and to arrange his affairs with their master, then the three set off west.
Xu Qingtong and Du Siwen returned to Central Province with Dongfang Hui, then visited Lü Wenqiu to explain Hui’s sacrifice during Qingtong’s Spirit Transformation tribulation and her memory loss. Lü Wenqiu questioned Qingtong’s decision to care for Hui, then recognized that the two had come to plead her case.
Xu Qingtong asked Lü Wenqiu to approve his wish to become Dao companions with both Du Siwen and Hui'er, and Lü tested whether he was strong enough to care for them. Impressed by Xu's power and his self-created cultivation technique, Lü studied the One Qi Primordial Unity Art, leaving Xu waiting for his judgment.
Lü Wenqiu accepted Dongfang Hui as his final disciple and approved her marriage to Xu Qingtong, while Xu Qingtong offered Juxian Academy his cultivation art as a betrothal gift. The academy held a grand combined discipleship and wedding ceremony a month later, leaving Xu Qingtong married to both of Lü Wenqiu’s disciples.
Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to gain experience and prepare for a journey through Central Province, then gave Ximen Wanyan Spirit Realm treasures to help protect himself. He returned to the Tianhua Sect, stepped down as Sect Leader in favor of Dong Yunxiao, and reunited with friends in Gloomwind Valley before they departed.
Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui set out to travel together, leaving Du Siwen to manage things at home. Xu Qingtong guided Dongfang Hui through Bingzhou, sharing its history and his past experiences, and they reached the former site of the Azure Sea Gate.
After Master Zhong Ziqing’s death, Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to revisit a wonton stall and explained that cultivating the Dao began with cultivating virtue and the heart. Dongfang Hui experienced sudden enlightenment, and when they reached Cloudsky Peak, its disciples recognized Xu Qingtong as their Forefather just as a figure hurried out to meet them.
Xu Qingtong and Dongfang Hui revisited Cloudsky Peak, Gloomwind Valley, and the Witch Clan Territory, where they met old acquaintances and offered help. Their journey left Dongfang Hui reflecting on what she had heard, and she asked Xu Qingtong whether they could still enter Mist Valley.
Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to Mist Valley, where revisiting their old cave stirred his buried feelings and helped him gain insight. Back at Tianhua Sect, he brought Xiao Bai above the Nine Heavens so they could study spatial power together, and they returned after three days when Xu Qingtong ran out of immortal essence.
Xu Qingtong took Dongfang Hui to Wei City so she could gain experience managing his shop, Azure Wind Hall. After learning from him for a day, Dongfang Hui took over as shopkeeper, but her first trade left her unsure whether she had offered a fair price.
Dongfang Hui trained by running Azure Wind Hall in Wei City, learning to judge people and improve her state of mind. She returned to the Tianhua Sect, survived her Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, and stabilized her new cultivation.
Thirty years after Dongfang Hui’s Nascent Soul Formation, Lü Wenqiu told Xu Qingtong he planned to leave Central Province despite having less than a thirty-percent chance of surviving the journey. Xu Qingtong demonstrated his mastery of spatial power and offered Lü Wenqiu a Mandui Fruit to help him keep cultivating before he departed.
Xu Qingtong gave Lü Wenqiu a Mandui Fruit, improving his ability to comprehend and use spatial power. Lü Wenqiu revealed that he planned to leave the realm to draw Yin Wanchou into attacking Xu Qingtong, while Yin Wanchou began preparing a costly scheme to reach Spirit Transformation middle stage.
Xu Qingtong and Lü Wenqiu prepared for Lü Wenqiu’s attempt to ascend, while the possibility of an attack by Yin Wanchou put Central Province’s sects on alert. With Lü Wenqiu planning to leave in ten days, Xu Qingtong ordered the Tianhua Sect to strengthen its defenses.
Xu Qingtong helped Lü Wenqiu open a passage to the Spirit Realm and watched him ascend, then prepared for a possible attack by the Profound Yin Church. After half a month of uneasy calm, Lan Xin Butterfly arrived with news that the Tianhua Sect was in critical danger.
The Profound Yin Church attacked the Tianhua Sect with a corrosive black water, and Xu Qingtong rushed there to defend it. He crushed the attackers’ Nascent Soul cultivators and ordered the remaining forces hunted down, but Yin Wanchou was nowhere to be found.
Xu Qingtong realized Yin Wanchou had used the Profound Yin Church cultivators to create slaughter and rushed to the Anyang Sect, where Yin Wanchou was attacking Luo Yichen. Xu Qingtong fought to rescue Luo Yichen, but Yin Wanchou prepared to unleash a Purple-Gold Corpse Puppet.
Xu Qingtong battled Yin Wanchou, overcoming his corpse puppet and Myriad-Year Corpse Water with powerful treasures and talismans. He destroyed Yin Wanchou’s body, but the man’s Nascent Soul escaped before Xu Qingtong could finish him off.