Recaps

After returning from the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land, Lin Yun gave Han Li spirit herbs, magic artifacts, and cultivation resources before advancing to Foundation Establishment himself. He gained permission to establish a cave abode in the Taiyue Mountain Range, then left it the next morning to head down the mountain.

• Lin Yun returned to the Hundred Herb Garden, revealed his Foundation-Building Stage cultivation to Han Li, and gave him spirit herb seedlings and useful items from the forbidden land.
• Lin Yun received a Foundation Establishment Pill and gave it to Han Li, then separated Cosmic Light True Water and Three Lights Divine Water from Han Li’s green liquid before entering seclusion.
• After three months of cultivating the He Sha Marvelous Book and other methods, Lin Yun emerged at Foundation Establishment and told Martial Uncle Ma he had used a spirit fruit to improve his chances.
• Lin Yun left the Hundred Herb Garden, while Han Li prepared to enter seclusion and Martial Uncle Ma returned to tending the garden.
• Lin Yun met Sect Master Zhong Lingdao, registered as a Foundation-Building cultivator, and received the sect’s reward and permission to establish a cave abode.
• Lin Yun chose an unoccupied peak, carved and furnished a cave abode, set up a Five-Element Strange Gate Formation, and headed down the mountain the next morning.

Lin Yun visited Xin Ruoyin at her secluded hill, praised her progress in formations, and gave her a Foundation Establishment Pill and medicine to suppress her Dragon-Yin Body. After she entered seclusion to establish her foundation, Lin Yun left to continue searching for the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• Lin Yun used Formless Sword Escape to enter the hill and reunited with Xin Ruoyin and her maid, Xiao Mei.
• Lin Yun praised Xin Ruoyin for working out the fifth layer of the Seven Wonders Formation and improving the Five Elements Reversal Formation.
• Lin Yun gave Xin Ruoyin a Refined Foundation Establishment Pill and pills to suppress the effects of her Dragon-Yin Body, then revealed that he had established his own foundation.
• Lin Yun explained that he helped Xin Ruoyin because he wanted to see how far her talent in formations could take her.
• Lin Yun guided Xin Ruoyin and Xiao Mei for several days before Xin Ruoyin entered seclusion to establish her foundation, and he left to search for the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

After nearly four years of travel, Lin Yun returned to Yellow Maple Valley with a newly refined Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze and visited Han Li, who asked him to make a magical artifact from a Silver-Armored Horned Python's horn. Lin Yun agreed to craft a wind-and-fire flying boat and told Han Li to return in seven days.

• Lin Yun spent a year and a half refining the Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze from gathered cloud and mist essence, then ended his travels and returned to Yellow Maple Valley.
• Lin Yun found Han Li's frequent Sound Transmission Talismans and flew to his cave abode on the Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze.
• Lin Yun recognized the Five Elements Reversal Formation outside Han Li's cave abode and wondered how Han Li had obtained a formation made by Xin Ruoyin.
• Han Li asked Lin Yun to refine a Silver-Armored Horned Python's horn, then explained that Li Huayuan had become his master after trading the horn for Han Li's thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.
• Han Li returned Lin Yun's matured spiritual herb seedlings and presented a Youth-Preserving Pill, which Lin Yun appraised and accepted.
• Lin Yun decided to turn the horn into a wind-and-fire flying boat and told Han Li to collect it in seven days.

Lin Yun refined the Water Essence Pearl together with the cleansed soul essence of the Ink Flood Dragon to create his first self-made magical treasure. He named it the Supreme Goodness Pearl and began nurturing it in his profound aperture.

• Lin Yun took out the Ink Flood Dragon's soul essence and the Water Essence Pearl, deciding to refine them together using water refining.
• Lin Yun used water-element primordial qi to cleanse the soul essence of its lingering toxicity.
• Lin Yun refined the Water Essence Pearl with Yin-Yang Dew, purifying it and reducing its size.
• Lin Yun added the cleansed Ink Flood Dragon's soul essence to the Water Essence Pearl, awakening spirituality within it.
• After three days of refining, Lin Yun named the completed treasure the Supreme Goodness Pearl and drew it into his profound aperture to nurture it.

Lin Yun finished refining Han Li’s Wind-Fire Boat and helped him test its speed, defenses, and attacks before Han Li left with it. Lin Yun then asked Senior Brother Ma about spirit stone mines, but learned only of small deposits and resumed his search.

• Han Li arrived late after Thousand Bamboo Sect cultivators had trapped him at his cave abode, and Lin Yun inferred that the Demonic Path’s invasion was approaching.
• Lin Yun showed Han Li the Wind-Fire Boat, explaining its wood-powered flight, Wind-Fire Shield Formation, and spirit-stone-powered attacks.
• Han Li discovered the boat was a top-grade magical artifact disguised as a mid-grade one and tested its controls.
• Han Li asked Lin Yun to separate the green liquid, received a drop each of Cosmic Light True Water and Three Lights Divine Water, and departed in the boat.
• Lin Yun visited Senior Brother Ma to ask about spirit stone mines, but found that the known mines were too small for his purposes.

Three years after searching across the Yue Kingdom for an ancient teleportation formation, Lin Yun found a hidden spiritual stone mine in Jianzhou and discovered the Ghost Spirit Sect was surveying the kingdom’s resources. He left a divine sense attached to one of its cultivators and learned that the demonic invasion was approaching, while deciding to preserve the man’s usefulness as a possible route to Wang Chan.

• Lin Yun searched Linzhou for three months before a sudden impulse led him to a concealed spiritual stone mine across the border in Jianzhou.
• Lin Yun found a Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator mapping Jianzhou’s resources and used the Soul-Bewitching and Spirit-Seizing Art to influence his thoughts and observe him.
• The Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator left the mine and reported his findings to Martial Uncle Li, who promised to recommend him as a personal guard to the Young Master.
• Lin Yun learned that Ghost Spirit Sect Core Formation cultivators had arrived in the Yue Kingdom and that Spirit Beast Mountain had defected to the demonic path.
• Lin Yun decided not to waste the Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator, since his connection to Wang Chan could prove useful.

Lin Yun found the ancient teleportation formation and five-colored skeleton in the spirit stone mine’s underground caverns, then killed the Blood Jade Spider guarding them. He took the Great Teleportation Token, copied the formation, and burned the skeleton with Solar True Fire, revealing ten Heaven Mending Pills.

• Lin Yun entered the spirit stone mine unseen and followed an underground passage into caverns where he found the Blood Jade Spider, an ancient teleportation formation, and a five-colored skeleton holding a blue token.
• Lin Yun attacked the Level Four Blood Jade Spider with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, severed its legs, blocked its webs with a five-colored finger, and killed it.
• Lin Yun collected the spider’s body as artifact-refining material and identified the blue token as a Great Teleportation Token.
• Lin Yun copied the damaged Ancient Teleportation Formation onto jade slips and decided that Ruoyin would need to repair it.
• Lin Yun used the Pure Yang Golden Lamp and Solar True Fire to burn away the five-colored skeleton, revealing ten Heaven Mending Pills.

Lin Yun extracted Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi from a Heaven Mending Pill while hiding in an underground cavern, then reunited with Han Li in the spirit stone mine. As Lin Yun finished refining pills, Han Li warned him that the outside world was in turmoil, and Lin Yun asked whether the Six Demonic Path Sects had invaded Yue Kingdom.

• Lin Yun explained how Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi mended spiritual roots and lamented that the Void Sky Cauldron had wasted it in Heaven Mending Pills.
• Lin Yun set up a Forward-Reverse Nine Palaces Array and spent a year carefully extracting the Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi from the pill.
• As the Six Demonic Path Sects invaded Yue Kingdom, Lin Yun sensed activity outside his hidden cavern and replenished his magical power with spiritual qi from raw spirit stone ore.
• Han Li navigated the underground caverns with a Lizard Puppet and followed Lin Yun's five-colored sword qi through the array.
• Lin Yun bottled the extracted stellar qi, began refining the remaining pill ingredients, and asked Han Li whether the Six Demonic Path Sects had invaded Yue Kingdom.

Lin Yun revealed an Ancient Teleportation Formation as a possible escape from the war and gave Han Li a Heaven Mending Pill and Blood Jade Spider eggs. He asked Xin Ruoyin to repair the formation, and the chapter ended with Yellow Maple Valley sending most of its Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Golden Drum Plains.

• Lin Yun showed Han Li the damaged Ancient Teleportation Formation and gave him a Heaven Mending Pill, which Han Li swallowed, along with two Blood Jade Spider eggs.
• Seven days later, Lin Yun and Han Li returned to Yellow Maple Valley as the war between the Seven Sects and the Six Demonic Path Sects intensified.
• Lin Yun asked Xin Ruoyin to repair the Ancient Teleportation Formation and invited her to escape with him when the Seven Sects were defeated.
• Han Li asked Lin Yun about the Great Teleportation Token, and Lin Yun explained that it could transport everyone within its protected area.
• Yellow Maple Valley issued assignments and dispatched most of its Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Golden Drum Plains.

On the Golden Drum Plains, Lin Yun secretly began refining a White Bone Divine Demon from materials taken from Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators. Meanwhile, Nangong Wan learned from Han Li and Li Huayuan where Lin Yun was staying, and Han Li was sent away before he could warn him.

• Lin Yun decided to refine a White Bone Divine Demon from skulls and resentful souls collected from Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators, and concealed his work with a formation.
• Han Li obtained a medicinal herb and reflected on how difficult it was to use Lin Yun's complex pill recipes.
• Nangong Wan heard Han Li's name and asked whether he knew a free-spirited cultivator matching Lin Yun's description.
• Han Li tried to conceal his connection to Lin Yun, but Li Huayuan identified Lin Yun and revealed his location in the Seven Sects' camp.
• Nangong Wan left to seek Lin Yun, while Li Huayuan sent Han Li away on a mission, preventing him from warning Lin Yun.

Lin Yun tested his newly refined White Bone Divine Demon on a Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator and witnessed its devastating power. Nangong Wan discovered that Lin Yun had used a false name, while Lin Yun remained unaware she had followed him and grew cautious of the watcher.

• Lin Yun admired his early Foundation Establishment White Bone Divine Demon and considered how to disguise its sinister aura.
• Nangong Wan questioned a Covering Moon Sect disciple, learned the portrait showed Lin Yun, and realized he had given her a false name.
• Lin Yun sensed he was being watched, escaped with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, and Nangong Wan returned to camp when Demonic Path cultivators provoked the sects.
• Lin Yun ambushed a mid Foundation Establishment Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator with the White Bone Divine Demon, which drained his vitality and flesh.
• Lin Yun collected the cultivator's Storage Bag and resolved to be more cautious when using Demonic Path arts.

Lin Yun accepted Senior Brother Wu’s assignment to protect his relatives in Xi Zhou and met Wu Ping, the head of the Wu family in Jade Mountain City. After warning Wu Ping to prepare to flee if the war turned hopeless and secretly setting the White Bone Divine Demon to guard the family, Lin Yun explored the city and stopped at a medical clinic.

• Lin Yun reported completing his assignment at Golden Drum Plain Camp, and Senior Brother Wu asked him to protect relatives in Xi Zhou from Demonic Path attacks.
• Lin Yun accepted the assignment and learned that Senior Brother Wu’s relatives lived in Jade Mountain City, where they ran a jade business.
• Lin Yun entered Wu Ping’s study, delivered Senior Brother Wu’s letter, and promised to protect the Wu family while advising them to prepare to leave the Yue Kingdom if necessary.
• Wu Ping summoned his children and grandchildren to discuss the warning, while Lin Yun placed the White Bone Divine Demon beneath the residence to guard the family.
• Lin Yun wandered through Jade Mountain City as an ordinary person and stopped at a medical clinic in the afternoon.

Lin Yun reunited with his mortal parents after nearly thirty years apart and revealed that he had become a cultivator. He stopped Lin Father from calling Lin Feng and Lin Yu, saying he had come only to see his parents and explain a few things before leaving.

• Lin Yun entered the Lin Family Medical Hall and reunited with Lin Father, who hurried him to the courtyard to see Lin Mother.
• Lin Mother recognized Lin Yun and embraced him, grieving over their long separation.
• Lin Yun explained that he was a cultivator and demonstrated his abilities by preparing Spirit Tea for his parents.
• Lin Father told Lin Mother about his origins and the Lin Family's status as a cultivation clan, with Lin Yun adding details about the cultivation world.
• Lin Father offered to call Lin Feng and Lin Yu home, but Lin Yun stopped him and said he would leave after speaking with his parents.

Lin Yun settled his ties with his mortal family and returned to the Wu residence, where Wu Ping prepared his descendants to flee the Yue Kingdom. After agreeing to escort them, Lin Yun discovered the jade Wu Ping offered was suitable for making talismans and crafted two pairs of Voice-and-Image Transmission Talismans.

• Lin Yun left the Lin Family a cultivation method and a Restriction Token to settle his ties with his mortal relatives.
• Wu Ping ordered his sons and grandsons to remain at the old residence, sell their businesses, and prepare to leave the Yue Kingdom.
• Wu Ping gave Lin Yun a box of jade and asked him to escort the Wu Family beyond the kingdom's border, and Lin Yun agreed.
• Lin Yun recognized that the jade could be used to make jade slips and decided to craft Voice-and-Image Transmission Talismans.
• Two days later, Lin Yun completed two pairs of talismans that could transmit voices and images over long distances.

Lin Yun used the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light to destroy spirit snakes sent by two Spirit Controlling Sect disciples, then killed them with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword. He left with their spoils after finding only a top-grade bowl-shaped magical artifact worth keeping.

• Lin Yun arranged for his merchant associations to gather their five-metal raw materials in the Yue Capital while the Wu Family sold its holdings.
• Lin Yun heard two Spirit Controlling Sect disciples plotting to ambush the Wu Family and left to confront them.
• Lin Yun unleashed the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light on the disciples’ spirit snakes, destroying them and drawing the cultivators’ attention.
• The two disciples raised a protective barrier and prepared an ambush, but Lin Yun’s Clearvoid Invisible Sword passed through it and beheaded them.
• Lin Yun collected the disciples’ belongings, kept their top-grade bowl-shaped magical artifact, and vanished.

Lin Yun escorted the Wu Family to safety, then went to Yue Capital to collect five-metal materials gathered by his merchant associations. He left the associations in their leaders’ hands and departed after learning of possible Black Fiend Sect activity in the city.

• Lin Yun warned Wu Ping that Spirit Controlling Sect cultivators were searching for him and showed him two disciples’ identity tokens, prompting Wu Ping to flee with the Wu Family.
• After escorting the Wu Family toward the Fengdu Kingdom for nearly two months, Lin Yun sensed demonic aura above Yue Capital and entered the city.
• Lin Yun presented his gold-plaque token at the merchant associations’ Guild Hall and summoned Dong Qiang, Ma Er, and Hua Yun.
• Dong Qiang reported that the associations had gathered gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin, while Hua Yun described a mysterious immortal master and unexplained disappearances in Yue Capital.
• Lin Yun collected the stored materials, told the three leaders they could keep the associations, and vanished after granting them a lifetime of wealth and honor.

Lin Yun went to Yue Kingdom’s Imperial Palace to settle his debt with the Black Fiend Sect, where he joined Han Li and the Yellow Maple Valley disciples in defeating the Four Great Blood Attendants. Afterward, Han Li told Lin Yun that Nangong Wan had been asking about him, leaving Lin Yun wondering what she wanted.

• Lin Yun decided to confront the Black Fiend Sect at the Imperial Palace after learning it was capturing unaffiliated cultivators for Blood Sacrifices.
• Lin Yun arrived at the palace during a battle between Han Li and six other Yellow Maple Valley disciples and the Four Great Blood Attendants.
• Lin Yun protected Xue Hong, restrained the Ice Demon, and destroyed all four Blood Attendants with the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light.
• Lin Yun collected the four Blood-Congealed Five-Element Pills and realized they contained five elements yin fiend qi.
• Han Li told Lin Yun that Nangong Wan had asked him about Lin Yun, and Lin Yun wondered whether she meant to take revenge.

Lin Yun exposed and killed the Yue Emperor’s blue-robed avatar, then watched Yellow Maple Valley’s disciples fight the Black Fiend Sect leader. After the Yue Emperor’s desperate explosion badly injured the group, Lin Yun killed him and left the surviving disciples alive.

• Lin Yun warned Han Li that the Yue Emperor was the Black Fiend Sect leader, and Han Li quietly alerted Chen Qiaoqian and the others.
• The blue-robed man ambushed Lin Yun, but Lin Yun blocked the attack and killed him with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, destroying his soul and revealing him as the Yue Emperor’s avatar.
• The Yue Emperor attacked Liu Jing, but Han Li’s warning let Liu Jing raise a defense; the others then attacked the Yue Emperor while Lin Yun watched.
• Liu Jing unleashed a True Treasure firebird, and the Yue Emperor detonated an incomplete magic treasure to counter it, badly injuring Liu Jing and the other disciples.
• The wounded Yue Emperor attacked Lin Yun with Blood Spirit Drills, but Lin Yun’s Supreme Goodness Pearl blocked them before his sword killed the Yue Emperor.

After the Emperor of Yue’s defeat, Lin Yun examined the spoils and extracted Five Elements Yin Fiend from the Blood-Congealing Five-Element Pills to test a path toward Core Formation. Han Li informed him that the decisive battle was set for two months later, and the two prepared to leave the war effort and meet again near the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• Lin Yun healed Liu Jing, then searched the Emperor of Yue’s belongings with Han Li and gave him the Soul-Gathering Bowl, Blood Spirit Drill, and a warning about heterodox cultivation arts.
• Lin Yun found the Heavenly Void Fragment Map and kept it, while Han Li learned that another of his senior brothers had died in the Black Fiend Sect’s secret chamber.
• Lin Yun spent two days extracting Five Elements Yin Fiend from the pills, hoping to refine it with Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi and discover his own path to Core Formation.
• Han Li visited Lin Yun and reported that the decisive battle between the Seven Sects and the Six Demonic Path Sects would take place in two months; both agreed it was time to decide what to do.
• Lin Yun said he would not return to Yellow Maple Valley or the Golden Drum Plain Camp, and gave Han Li a Voice-and-Image Transmission Talisman so they could meet near the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Lin Yun gave Han Li the remaining Blood-Congealing Five-Element Pills, and Han Li left to settle his old affairs.

Lin Yun traveled to the Yuanwu Kingdom to bring Xin Ruoyin back and gather five-metal materials before the war between the Seven Sects and the Six Demonic Path Sects began. After collecting supplies and finding that Qi Yunxiao had become a respected artifact refiner, Lin Yun, Xin Ruoyin, and Xiao Mei set off for the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• Lin Yun reached Xin Ruoyin's mountain and learned that she had completed the plans and gathered materials needed to repair the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Lin Yun resolved to leave with Xin Ruoyin in three days, while privately considering ways to pursue their feelings without violating his cultivation methods.
• Lin Yun collected five-metal materials in nearby cities and learned that Qi Yunxiao had become an artifact refiner and a disciple of the Divine Weapon Sect.
• Xin Ruoyin left her mountain formation in place, and she and Xiao Mei finished packing for the journey.
• Lin Yun gave Xin Ruoyin the Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze and concealed their auras with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword as the three flew toward the spirit stone mine.

Lin Yun brought Xin Ruoyin and Xiao Mei to the spirit stone mine, where Xin Ruoyin began repairing the Ancient Teleportation Formation. He withdrew to a nearby mountain cave to test his own Core Formation method, comparing the mortal world’s resource-driven cultivation with the cultivation principles of Zu Mountain.

• Lin Yun used Formless Sword Escape to take Xin Ruoyin and Xiao Mei into the cavern beneath the spirit stone mine, where they found the Ancient Teleportation Formation.
• Xin Ruoyin inspected the formation and said she could repair its damaged corner, though the work would take at least seven days.
• Lin Yun gave Xin Ruoyin an array token and communication talismans, then left her and Xiao Mei to work while he waited nearby for Han Li.
• Lin Yun carved a temporary cave abode in the mountains and prepared to refine qianyang five elements stellar qi and five elements yin fiend into a Primordial Qi External Elixir.
• Lin Yun considered the limitations of the mortal world’s Core Formation methods and contrasted them with Zu Mountain’s cultivation of essence, qi, and spirit toward primordial qi.

Lin Yun devised and began testing an external pill method that combined techniques from both worlds, while Xin Ruoyin repaired the Teleportation Array. Han Li arrived with a companion and joined Xin Ruoyin, leaving Lin Yun to finish his experiment before rejoining them.

• Lin Yun planned to form a Golden Core by combining refined origin qi, the Heavenly Treasury Divine Talisman, and the Nine-Turn Return-to-Elixir Method, and decided to test his approach with an external pill first.
• Lin Yun refined Qianyang five elements stellar qi and five elements yin fiend in his profound aperture, shaping them into a five elements origin pill with the Six Heavenly Talismans.
• Lin Yun contacted Xin Ruoyin, who reported that she and Xiao Mei expected to finish repairing the Teleportation Array within three days.
• Han Li told Lin Yun that cultivators from the Ghost Spirit Sect and Joyful Union Sect had occupied the Spirit Stone Mine and asked to bring a companion; Lin Yun directed him to the Teleportation Array and sent a map.
• Xiao Mei met Han Li and his companion at the underground cavern, and Han Li found Xin Ruoyin working on the Teleportation Array.

Lin Yun completed Core Formation by refining the Five-Element Essence Core, which strengthened his true essence and let him invoke the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light almost instantly. As he prepared to test his new cultivation, two Core Formation cultivators from the Joyful Union Sect and Ghost Spirit Sect approached his cave abode.

• Lin Yun absorbed the surrounding spiritual qi and merged the Qian Heaven yang qi and yin fiend qi into the Five-Element Essence Core, causing a huge vortex that drew the attention of nearby Demonic Path cultivators.
• Two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Joyful Union Sect and Ghost Spirit Sect sensed the disturbance but returned to their Spirit Stone Mine rather than investigate.
• Lin Yun completed the Five-Element Essence Core and imprinted it with his spiritual sense, then drew it into his profound aperture.
• Lin Yun found that the core purified his true essence and allowed him to summon the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light almost instantly, though its high cost made it a trump card.
• Lin Yun sensed two approaching Core Formation Stage auras, one from the Joyful Union Sect and one from the Ghost Spirit Sect.

Nangong Wan fought off the Li brothers while fleeing the Demonic Path pursuers, using a feint to grievously wound one brother and escape. Wang Chan and Tian Buque realized she was likely exhausted and led the pursuit after her.

• Nangong Wan lured the Li brothers into a fight over a remote lake, hoping to create a chance to escape.
• The Li brothers used their joint technique and ghostly soul attacks, but Nangong Wan’s cultivated soul resisted them.
• Nangong Wan feigned being dazed, then wounded the younger Li brother with the Vermilion Bird Ring and repelled the elder with her sword.
• The injured Nangong Wan fled west after her magical power was nearly exhausted, while the elder Li carried his unconscious brother away.
• Tian Buque deduced that Nangong Wan had exhausted her strength and pursued her, and Wang Chan ordered the others to follow.

Lin Yun rescued the exhausted Nangong Wan from her pursuers and killed the Ghost Spirit Sect elder surnamed Li with his newly acquired Core Formation strength. As Lin Yun tried to escape with Nangong Wan, an unknown cultivator appeared and stopped them.

• Nangong Wan fled from Tian Buque and the elder surnamed Li, then flew toward the site of Lin Yun's recent core formation.
• Lin Yun sensed the approaching cultivators, recognized Nangong Wan, and rushed out to meet her.
• Lin Yun caught Nangong Wan as she faltered, gave her pills to recover, and confronted the elder surnamed Li.
• Lin Yun's Clearvoid Invisible Sword severed the elder's arm, then killed him with a second strike as Wang Chan and the others fled.
• Lin Yun prepared to leave with Nangong Wan, but an effeminate voice addressed them and halted their escape.