Recaps

The Black Tortoise Kingdom’s national fortune yellow dragon sacrificed itself, scattering blessings and revealing the scale of Li Junzi’s plans to an old Spirit Transformation Daoist. Zhao Xuan entrusted the work ahead to Li Junzi, who prepared to meet the scholars and officials gathering to support her.

• The national fortune yellow dragon roared above the capital, dissolved into blessings, and sent nearly half of its fortune back to the palace.
• An old Spirit Transformation Daoist saw scholars blessed by the dragon heading toward the palace and reconsidered his judgment of Li Junzi.
• Zhao Xuan received the returning blessings through the Nation-Guarding Jade Seal, while the rest flowed into Li Junzi.
• Zhao Xuan told Li Junzi he would rely on her, and a palace attendant reported that scholars and officials had requested an audience.
• A Nascent Soul Realm patriarch bowed deeply to Li Junzi before leaving, and Zhao Xuan put the remaining decisions in her hands.
• Li Junzi ordered the gathered scholars and officials invited to assemble outside the hall.

Chu Xingchen remained at Firmament Rhyme Hall’s Dongsheng Shenzhou headquarters while the hall stalled investigations into the slander, and he proposed bringing disciples from the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect and the Heavenly Derivation Sect to help investigate. A message from the Heavenly Derivation Sect left him shocked by Li Junzi’s significance and wondering whether the mortal world would see another Second Sage.

• Chu Xingchen stayed in Dongsheng Shenzhou for over half a month, playing Go and drinking tea while Firmament Rhyme Hall made little progress on the investigation.
• Yunxiao arrived at the Temporary Hub, where Chen Baiqing and the others gave him little attention, and he spoke with Ye Antao and Chu Xingchen.
• Chu Xingchen resigned from his Go game after Xie Lingyu found a move that threatened his great dragon, frustrating her despite her win.
• Chu Xingchen asked Yunxiao to let disciples from the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect and the Heavenly Derivation Sect join the investigation in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
• Chen Baiqing brought Chu Xingchen a Jade Token message from the Heavenly Derivation Sect, and he realized everyone had underestimated Li Junzi.

Chu Xingchen and Chen Baiqing chose to trust Li Junzi to act without their interference, while the Cloud Dream Pavilion defended its decision to contain the Black Crow Archbishop rather than move against the Evil Spirit Cult immediately. Zheng Zhaoling challenged that policy and slapped away Cui Hao’s attempt to stop her.

• Chu Xingchen received news about Li Junzi and told Chen Baiqing that trusting her was the best support they could offer.
• Cui Hao questioned the Cloud Dream Pavilion’s sect leader about leaving the Evil Spirit Cult free to ravage the Cangxi Kingdom after capturing Zhao Xuan, the Black Crow Archbishop.
• The sect leader argued that intervening in the Incense Gods’ internal conflict could destabilize Cloud Dream Marsh and endanger Cloud Marsh and Yun Li.
• Zheng Zhaoling argued that Cloud Dream Marsh should handle the Incense Gods’ disputes while the Cloud Dream Pavilion dealt with the Evil Spirit Cult’s role in the Great Calamity.
• Cui Hao tried to stop Zheng Zhaoling, but she slapped his hand away.

Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling discussed her defiance of the Cloud Dream Pavilion’s Sect Leader and their shared concerns about the Great Calamity. After Zheng Zhaoling left, the Sect Leader confronted Cui Hao about trying to recruit her.

• Cui Hao warned Zheng Zhaoling that her public challenge could get her reprimanded, but she said she was willing to give up her Core Disciple position rather than abandon her principles.
• Zheng Zhaoling explained that she had acted to prevent the Cloud Dream Pavilion from distancing itself from Cui Hao’s master and from the human race’s trust.
• Cui Hao urged Zheng Zhaoling to apologize to her Sect Leader, then offered to make her a Grand Elder at his sect if she could no longer remain at the Cloud Dream Pavilion.
• After Zheng Zhaoling departed, Cui Hao wondered whether his master had helped the Cloud Dream Pavilion capture the Black Crow Archbishop, Crow Run-Run.
• The Cloud Dream Pavilion’s Sect Leader confronted Cui Hao, revealed that she had investigated his identity, and accused him of trying to take Zheng Zhaoling away.

Cui Hao met with the Sect Leader of Cloud Dream Pavilion, who explained that the sect trusted Zheng Zhaoling’s judgment as its Core Disciple and gave Cui Hao a Jade Token containing a political plan. Cui Hao learned that several Immortal Sects intended to challenge Chu Xingchen’s influence and preserve their independence.

• Cui Hao appeased the Sect Leader of Cloud Dream Pavilion by yielding during their exchange, and the Sect Leader praised his restraint and his decision to keep Zheng Zhaoling out of the Incense Gods’ internal strife.
• The Sect Leader gave Cui Hao a Jade Token, explaining that Zheng Zhaoling’s words had persuaded Cloud Dream Pavilion’s elders to trust her choice.
• The Sect Leader told Cui Hao that Zheng Zhaoling had not yet understood the authority and responsibility her Core Disciple title carried, and that the sect was nurturing her to lead.
• Cui Hao read the Jade Token and learned that several Immortal Sects planned to work with Dongsheng Shenzhou to undermine Chu Xingchen’s reputation and limit his influence.
• Cui Hao realized the sects wanted to retain the right to refuse Chu Xingchen and prevent him from ruling alone after the Great Calamity.

Cui Hao encouraged Zheng Zhaoling to trust her judgment as she took command of Cloud Dream Pavilion’s operation, then accepted her orders to purge the Evil Spirit Cult and divide the Incense Gods. At Shattered Cloud Peak, Li Xingtian complained that his reputation as a Blood Qi Evil Cultivator and his title, Devious True Lord, had become unbearable.

• The Cloud Dream Pavilion sect leader told Cui Hao that Zheng Zhaoling would command the operation and that the sect’s future depended on her wishes.
• Zheng Zhaoling told Cui Hao she had been given authority to carry out her proposal, and he urged her to do what she believed was right.
• Zheng Zhaoling conscripted Cui Hao as her errand-runner and ordered him to purge the Evil Spirit Cult and divide the Incense Gods equally.
• At Shattered Cloud Peak, Li Xingtian told Li Yingling that people no longer trusted Blood Qi Evil Cultivators and complained about being called Devious True Lord.
• Li Yingling’s schemes had turned Blood Qi Cultivators into feared, underhanded Blood Qi Evil Cultivators, leaving Li Xingtian wishing he had received a more straightforward title.

Li Yingling and Li Xingtian joked while Bai Xuanling seized the strange object [Two Realms] from a Heavenly Demon lair. After the object was secured and the disciples began sweeping the area, Bai Xuanling ordered it sent to the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect for study and struck down one of the transforming demons.

• Li Yingling teased Li Xingtian about his title and called him innocent, prompting him to return the insult and trigger a display of powerful Dao Resonance below the clouds.
• Bai Xuanling arrived with the sealed, pulsing object [Two Realms], which she had taken from three enhanced Mahayana Realm demons guarding it.
• Li Yingling examined [Two Realms] and discussed its ability to devour spiritual power and convert it into a strange energy with penetrating Dao Resonance.
• Bai Xuanling praised Li Yingling for finding the lair but dismissed sending [Two Realms] to their master, directing them to send it to the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect instead.
• As three Mahayana Realm demons began transforming into enormous beasts, Bai Xuanling drew Azure Darkness and cut off one demon's head.

Yuankong apologized to Sandong for his laziness after Qian Qing confronted him, and agreed to take responsibility for watering the medicine field. Li Yingling and Li Xingtian then arrived, and Li Yingling teased Li Xingtian for underestimating their master's ability to make Yuankong return to serve the sect.

• Sandong scolded Yuankong for refusing to help Qian Qing with the medicine field, while Yuankong lazily enjoyed its back rubs.
• Qian Qing stomped Yuankong and explained that Sandong deserved sincere treatment, prompting Yuankong to apologize.
• Sandong forgave Yuankong after he promised to water the medicine field himself, and Qian Qing followed to make sure he did it properly.
• Yuankong finished watering the spirit plants as Qian Qing explained how to care for them.
• Li Yingling and Li Xingtian arrived, and Li Yingling teased Yuankong about serving under Chu Xingchen and reminded Li Xingtian that she had predicted Yuankong would return to help the sect.

Boluo defended his failed schemes to Zhong Su and Meiyu, arguing that their setbacks had still bought time and narrowed their options. He asked Zhong Su to persuade Heavenly Demon Yuanqiong to join a plan that could let them attack Chu Xingchen.

• Zhong Su challenged Boluo over the loss of the [Two Realms], the Evil Spirit Cult's defeat, and Li Junzi's rise, while Meiyu considered whether they should target Li Junzi.
• Meiyu explained how Li Junzi's National Fortune Blessing path could transform the mortal world and make her a Second Sage, but Boluo argued that attacking her would be too dangerous.
• Boluo revealed that Lychee was investigating his Wish Power threads and said he would rather dispose of her than Li Junzi.
• Boluo said his preparations were complete and asked Zhong Su to persuade Heavenly Demon Yuanqiong to join him and Heavenly Demon Hengwang.
• Boluo presented Zhong Su with a joint pledge bearing the other Heavenly Demons' names, revealing that Zhong Su was his true target.

At Chuan Daohai, Chen Baiqing explained to Lin Luoyu that Western Ox-He Continent’s popular Buddha statues were carrying wish power into Dongsheng Shenzhou and outlined a plan to exploit the Buddhist Sect’s divisions. She left Lin Luoyu with candied fruit after Lin suggested their Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge could rival Vulture Peak.

• Chen Baiqing brought Lin Luoyu to Chuan Daohai after Yunxiao took over most of the Firmament Rhyme Hall affairs in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
• Chen Baiqing revealed that Western Ox-He Continent had been exporting fine Buddha statues to Dongsheng Shenzhou for eight or nine years, and Lin Luoyu realized they were transporting wish power.
• Chen Baiqing said she had let the statues circulate to put the Firmament Rhyme Hall at ease and planned to trace their source and the people whose faith sustained them.
• Chen Baiqing proposed breaking up the Buddhist Sect, bringing its factions under her master's command, and taking temporary control of the spirit vein at Vulture Peak.
• Lin Luoyu said Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge was as good as Vulture Peak, so Chen Baiqing gave her candied fruit.

Chen Baiqing traced the Fine Buddha Statues and their stolen wish power to Lotus Pond, then sent Lin Luoyu to warn Chu Xingchen. At the Firmament Rhyme Hall, Chu Xingchen teased Yunxiao into paying Spirit Stones to keep watching him as Lin Luoyu began explaining the urgent report.

• Chen Baiqing concluded that Lotus Pond might be a heavenly demon stronghold and sent Lin Luoyu to deliver her Jade Token directly to their master, Chu Xingchen.
• Yunxiao watched Chu Xingchen while sorting messages, and Chu Xingchen demanded Spirit Stones for each extra look.
• Lin Luoyu delivered Chen Baiqing's Jade Token to Chu Xingchen, who exclaimed at the report and ordered emergency assistance from Senior Bai and Huang Miao of the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect.
• Chu Xingchen teased Yunxiao into paying Spirit Stones to watch, then gave Lin Luoyu fruit and told her to take her time explaining the report.

Chu Xingchen sent Guangming Buddha and Wukong to investigate signs of a Heavenly Demon at Lotus Pond, while Guangming Buddha chose to approach the matter personally. After inspecting a village temple and its unusually potent wish power, he wondered where he could find someone with deluded thoughts.

• Chu Xingchen gave Lin Luoyu a Jade Token and told her to deliver it to Lü Xuan so people could be sent to investigate Lotus Pond.
• Wukong doubted Chu Xingchen's motives, but Guangming Buddha argued that Chu Xingchen's restraint had kept the world from falling into chaos.
• Guangming Buddha told Wukong to wait and avoid activating the Heavenly Derivation Sect's token unless a major disturbance occurred, then set out alone toward the fishing villages.
• Guangming Buddha found a small Great Hero Hall containing Buddha statues with unusually strong wish power, matching Chu Xingchen's warning.
• After speaking with a worshipper, Guangming Buddha continued through the villages and wondered where someone with deluded thoughts could be found.

Guangming Buddha confronted Boluo at Lotus Pond, where Boluo challenged the principles of Mahayana Buddhism and tried to force him to choose between killing Boluo and sparing the peaceful people. Guangming Buddha attacked without hesitation, and Boluo revealed that he understood Guangming Buddha’s reasons for coming: to resolve Chu Xingchen’s predicament and his junior brother’s.

• Guangming Buddha entered a temple at Lotus Pond and spoke to its Buddha statue, which answered him but did not reveal its true form.
• Boluo arrived, admitted he had helped bring about the Moment of Choice, and explained that he had left the statues, wish power, and Lotus Pond to draw Guangming Buddha there.
• Boluo asked whether Guangming Buddha would let the people of Lotus Pond die to kill him or let him escape for their sake.
• Guangming Buddha attacked Boluo, declaring that he would bear the resulting sins, and the two clashed across Lotus River as the temple was destroyed.
• Boluo said he understood Guangming Buddha’s motives: he had come to resolve Chu Xingchen’s predicament and his junior brother’s, and Nirvana was the answer in his heart.

Boluo fought Guangming Buddha and revealed a mysterious attack that wounded him and split the Buddha Kingdom. Convinced that waiting would only hurt his chances, Boluo unleashed his authority and called on his race to answer the Great Calamity today.

• Guangming Buddha summoned a vast Buddha Kingdom and attacked Boluo with countless hands and Spell Arts.
• Boluo transformed into his rakshasa body and used his Trace Move, tearing Guangming Buddha's robe, wounding his arm, breaking his staff, and splitting the Buddha Kingdom.
• Guangming Buddha said Boluo had not obtained Mahayana Buddhism's true teachings and urged him to abandon his evil path.
• Boluo rejected Guangming Buddha's warning, declaring that he wanted to win despite being unprepared and that this was his best chance.
• Boluo activated his authority, drained himself with black-and-yellow Wish Power, and called on his colleagues to answer the Great Calamity today.

Wukong activated Lü Xuan’s emergency talisman as Boluo’s attack overwhelmed the Lotus Pond, and Bai Xuanling arrived to aid Guangming Buddha. As the two fought Boluo together, Boluo concluded that Bai Xuanling was not true.

• Wukong evacuated mortals from the Lotus Pond and activated the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s Emergency Talisman when the Buddha Kingdom appeared.
• Wukong watched Boluo’s wish power and Guangming Buddha’s Origin Power clash, then worried whether the talisman would bring help.
• Bai Xuanling arrived and struck Boluo with Azure Darkness, cutting into the Buddha Kingdom.
• Bai Xuanling and Guangming Buddha joined forces, with Bai attacking Boluo while Guangming Buddha hemmed him in with Buddha hands and spells.
• Boluo endured their attacks with his wish power and told Bai Xuanling that he was not true.

Boluo fought Bai Xuanling and her allies, then revealed that Bai Xuanling had broken her immortal bones and become a half-immortal to remain in the world and protect Chu Xingchen. The battle continued as Bai Xuanling stood by her choice to save the people she cared about.

• Boluo used wish power to burn away Bai Xuanling’s attacks, while Bai Xuanling shattered more than half of the Heavenly Buddha Kingdom.
• Meiyu and Baibo arrived to aid Boluo, and the five fighters clashed inside Guangming Buddha’s rapidly recovering Buddha Kingdom.
• Chu Xingchen arrived and confronted Boluo, who said he was waiting for reinforcements and accused Chu Xingchen of drawing others into danger.
• Boluo told Chu Xingchen that Bai Xuanling had broken her immortal bones to stay in the world and protect him, leaving her a half-immortal.
• Bai Xuanling neither confirmed nor denied Boluo’s claim and continued fighting for the people and world she cared about.

Chu Xingchen and Bai Xuanling fought the heavenly demons as reinforcements joined the battle, while Boluo brought out Hengwang to attack Chu Xingchen. Hengwang’s enormous sword strike was shattered by Chu Xingchen’s punch, leaving Hengwang questioning Boluo’s plan.

• Chu Xingchen rejected Boluo’s attempt to unsettle him and attacked alongside Bai Xuanling.
• Boluo charged Bai Xuanling but was driven back, while Meiyu and Chi Guo also failed to overcome her sword intent.
• Zhong Su arrived and fought Guangming Buddha as Huang Miao and the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect’s cultivators joined the battle.
• Boluo called Hengwang from beneath the Lotus Pond and asked it to fight Chu Xingchen.
• Hengwang unleashed a vast blood-red sword strike, but Chu Xingchen destroyed most of it with one punch.
• Hengwang looked toward Boluo, who was being attacked by Bai Xuanling and Huang Miao, and wondered what Boluo hoped to accomplish.

Fang Jin confronted Yuanqiong over its refusal to join the final battle, arguing that time had run out and Boluo had already chosen to sacrifice itself. Yuanqiong accepted that the war was unavoidable, summoned the hidden Elite Generals, and led them toward the Fated Asura Land.

• Fang Jin rebuked Yuanqiong for hiding its Elite Generals and refusing to join Boluo's desperate plan.
• Fang Jin told Yuanqiong that Chu Xingchen's arrival signaled Heaven's Way had begun its final assault, and that Zhong Su had already gone to the Asura Land.
• Fang Jin left for the battle, while Yuanqiong reflected on Boluo's sacrifice and realized Fang Jin's arguments were true.
• Yuanqiong summoned the Elite Generals it had hidden in Heaven Beyond Heaven and armed itself for battle.
• Yuanqiong shouted for them to burn the world to ashes, and countless crimson lights rose from the ground toward the Fated Asura Land.

As the Immortal Sects battled Boluo’s forces, Chu Xingchen traced the flow of Origin Power to Hengwang and sent Bai Xuanling after him. Boluo then surrendered himself to the might of Authority, declaring that he would win as his eyes turned to pure radiance.

• Fang Jin sacrificed himself to draw five Tribulation Transcendence cultivators away from Boluo, while Yuanqiong charged toward Chu Xingchen.
• Chu Xingchen used the Innate Primordial Origin Stabilizing Dao Two Qi Pearl to trace the Origin Power from slain Devil Race elites to the fleeing Hengwang.
• Chu Xingchen warned Bai Xuanling that Hengwang was suspicious, and Bai Xuanling and Huang Miao pursued him.
• Boluo drew in his Wish Power and Authority, intensified his flames, and challenged Chu Xingchen, declaring himself the victor.
• Boluo let the might of Authority command him, and his eyes turned into pure radiance.

Chen Baiqing stayed near the battle between the cultivators and Heavenly Demons, hoping to draw danger away from her master, Boluo. Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling joined her, and despite their arguments and scuffle, Cui Hao chose to remain at her side as the fighting intensified.

• Chen Baiqing watched the distant battle and refused the Heavenly Derivation Sect cultivators’ suggestion that she retreat to Central Province.
• Cui Hao and Zheng Zhaoling arrived, and Cui Hao admitted that Eldest Senior Sister had sent him to bring Chen Baiqing back.
• Chen Baiqing told Cui Hao to return without her, but he stayed beside her to watch the battle.
• Zheng Zhaoling punched Cui Hao, and Chen Baiqing separated them with the Azure Sky Treasure Ring.
• Chen Baiqing explained that she meant to draw a Heavenly Demon away from Boluo, while Cui Hao insisted on staying with her.

Chu Xingchen used Righteousness Qi and the White Azure Method to stop Hengwang and disrupt its plan, but Hengwang’s apparent death triggered a formation. Boluo revealed that he had survived and told Chu Xingchen that he had underestimated him.

• Boluo absorbed the surrounding Wish Power and Origin Power into Authority, then fought recklessly and forced the cultivators back.
• Bai Xuanling engaged Boluo while Chu Xingchen warned him not to trade injuries with the mindless Heavenly Demon.
• Chu Xingchen used Myriad Forms and Righteousness Qi to pierce Hengwang’s defenses and pin it within its blood mist.
• Chu Xingchen’s White Azure Method entranced Hengwang, which stabbed itself and triggered a half-formed Grand Formation.
• Boluo appeared behind Chu Xingchen as his body began to dissipate and said, “I didn't underestimate you. But you underestimated me.”

Boluo sacrificed himself to fuel Hengwang's grand formation, and Meiyu and Zhong Su shattered their Origin Cores to add their power. As the formation began drawing in pure and turbid qi, Chu Xingchen realized Heaven's Way may have lost its barrier authority when he arrived—and wondered whether it was hidden in his system—while Bai Xuanling took charge and gave him Boluo's remaining wish power authority.

• Boluo let Hengwang's formation absorb his origin power and flesh, then explained that his authority had revealed the rules Heaven's Way broke.
• Meiyu crushed Xu Linglong's recovered Origin Core, and Zhong Su shattered his own, releasing their origin power into the formation.
• Chu Xingchen tried and failed to stop Hengwang from absorbing the pure and turbid qi, then called for cultivators who could separate them.
• Bai Xuanling identified the formation's power as authority, and Chu Xingchen reasoned that it was connecting the two realms by using the lost barrier authority.
• Chu Xingchen concluded that Heaven's Way may have lost barrier authority the day he arrived and wondered if it was hidden in his system or its storage space.
• Bai Xuanling pressed Boluo's remaining wish power authority into Chu Xingchen's hand and told him he did not have to bear everything alone.

As the Grand Formation unleashed a world-altering force, Guangming Buddha sacrificed himself to turn his body into a Buddha Kingdom and shield the sky from the Blood Sun. On A Loving Family Peak, Chu Xingchen’s disciples learned that the Heavenly Demons were being eradicated and waited for his return, uncertain whether the Great Calamity had truly ended.

• Chu Xingchen placed wish-power authority into the Spirit-Shattering Butterfly Jade, which charged once as spiritual power and the laws of heaven and earth changed around the Grand Formation.
• Guangming Buddha told Chu Xingchen he would establish a great vow and become a Buddha Kingdom to protect the sky for three years, then bowed and ascended toward the Blood Sun.
• Guangming Buddha vowed to make his body an unbreakable Buddha Kingdom while heaven and earth remained unsettled, and his vow summoned a Five-Colored Lotus that covered the Blood Sun.
• The Grand Formation dissipated, leaving the remaining Heavenly Demons with nowhere to flee as Chu Xingchen watched.
• Chen Baiqing reached A Loving Family Peak and received Chu Xingchen’s message that he had gone to Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect for the Eighteen Immortal Sects conference.
• Xie Lingyu said the Heavenly Demons seemed eradicated and the Heavenly Derivation Sect was clearing their origin power, while Yuankong recognized Guangming Buddha’s Dao resonance in the Five-Colored Lotus.

Chu Xingchen returned to A Loving Family Peak and told his companions that the Heavenly Demons had been defeated, then announced they would return to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge. At Pearl-Gem Peak, Lü Xuan worried that recovering Heaven's Way's authority within three years was unlikely, while Bai Xuanling confirmed they would become Chu Xingchen's Grand Elder and remain at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge if the effort failed.

• Chu Xingchen walked up A Loving Family Peak and was greeted with an exuberant embrace from his companions.
• Chu Xingchen explained that the Heavenly Demons and hidden Devil Race members had been defeated, and that the Eighteen Immortal Sects would search together for Heaven's Way's scattered authority.
• Chu Xingchen announced that everyone would return to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, and Xie Lingyu agreed to go with him.
• At Pearl-Gem Peak, Lü Xuan warned Bai Xuanling that finding a Principle Crystal capable of repairing the Barrier within three years was unlikely.
• Bai Xuanling told Lü Xuan they had agreed to become Chu Xingchen's Grand Elder and would stay at Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge if the search failed.

Chu Xingchen and his disciples returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge and held a celebration to welcome everyone home. During the gathering, Chu Xingchen privately asked Cui Hao whether he truly wanted to become sect leader, and Cui Hao shook his head.

• Chu Xingchen and the others returned to Ten Thousand Flowers Ridge, where Sandong eagerly ran to the Deep Pool and offered to show Qian Qing around.
• Chu Xingchen welcomed everyone back, announced a celebration, and arranged rooms and supplies for Yuankong, Qian Qing, and Ye Wanzhou.
• Chen Baiqing told Chu Xingchen that having him safe at the sect was enough for her, and he reassured her that he would attend the gathering that night.
• The disciples and elders celebrated by a bonfire, where Ye Wanzhou soon joined the games and Cui Hao drank with Chu Xingchen.
• Chu Xingchen privately asked Cui Hao whether he truly wanted to become sect leader, and Cui Hao firmly shook his head.