Recaps

Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao remained trapped in a stalemate with six Illusion Sword Swordsmen, who eventually agreed to attack them at Jianren Peak. Meanwhile, the lost Xiao Hua found a large group of sword cultivators whose attention was directed elsewhere.

• Li Zongbao explained that the Illusion Sword Swordsmen were holding back because they coveted his Immortal-Piercing Whip, while Xiao Mao continued steering the boat and Fairy Hongxia maintained the Innate True Water barrier.
• After several days, Xiang Mufeng attacked the flying boat, and the Immortal-Piercing Whip's shadow broke through his sword shadows before he blocked it with his giant sword.
• Xiang Mufeng judged the whip to be a top-grade magic treasure with power resembling a spiritual artifact, and the six swordsmen agreed to kill the three travelers at Jianren Peak.
• Huang Ping flew ahead to intercept the boat at Jianren Peak as Zuo Jian and the others closed in, determined to settle the fight and divide the whip afterward.
• Xiao Hua wandered into a region with more water and brambles, then detected a large group of sword cultivators whose backs were turned toward him.

Xiao Hua discovered tens of thousands of soul cultivators from Million Meng Mountain battling an enormous force of sword cultivators in Huan Country. As the bloody fight reached a stalemate, a piercing bird cry startled Xiao Hua and drew his attention toward its source.

• Xiao Hua concealed himself and approached the ambushing sword cultivators, then found them facing tens of thousands of strangely armed people riding spirit beasts.
• The soul cultivators chanted as their beast horde charged, and their ghostly green aura disabled and killed many Bright Sword cultivators.
• Xiao Hua recognized the strange fighters as soul cultivators from Million Meng Mountain and watched as both sides exchanged attacks, with spirit beasts protecting their riders and dying alongside them.
• After roughly two hours, more than half of both armies had fallen, but the battle remained deadlocked.
• A piercing bird cry startled Xiao Hua and nearly broke his concealment, and he turned toward its source in shock.

Xiao Hua watched the soul cultivators defeat the sword cultivators, celebrate by dancing, and loot the battlefield before he approached the blood-soaked site. There he encountered a mysterious young woman whose strange eyes could entrance him, and the chapter ended as she searched the battlefield and called out to someone hiding.

• A new force of soul cultivators and Spirit Birds swept into the battle, routed the sword cultivators, and chased the survivors away.
• The soul cultivators danced to recover their strength, then collected corpses and belongings before scrambling over the remaining spoils.
• Xiao Hua waited for the soul cultivators to leave, then approached the battlefield and sensed the lingering blood and the wails of the dead.
• A beautiful young woman arrived on clouds, and Xiao Hua realized that her shifting, mist-like eyes could draw in his gaze before the Spirit Guiding Technique roused him.
• The girl searched the battlefield for something, found nothing, and called toward a spot where she claimed to have seen someone, while Xiao Hua remained concealed.

Xiao Hua met Jiu Xia, who said she had sought him out and urged him to go with her to Jianren Peak, claiming his beloved would die if he went to Liuyun Lake instead. Jiu Xia admitted she had guessed much of his situation, but still withheld what favor she wanted from him.

• Jiu Xia lured Xiao Hua out of hiding after he tried to leave, then introduced herself and learned his name.
• Jiu Xia said she knew Xiao Hua was looking for someone and directed him toward Jianren Peak, refusing to explain how to find Liuyun Lake.
• Jiu Xia asked Xiao Hua to take her to Jianren Peak and warned that his beloved would die if he went to Liuyun Lake instead.
• Xiao Hua questioned Jiu Xia’s certainty, and she admitted she had guessed that he was risking himself to find someone he loved.
• Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua to keep his guard up while explaining that his urgency and restraint convinced her he already had a beloved.

Xiao Hua agreed to accompany Jiu Xia to Sword Blade Peak, where she believed he might help her, instead of heading directly to Liuyun Lake to find his beloved. After Jiu Xia corrected his poor sense of direction along the way, they reached Sword Blade Peak and she told him the legend of its creation.

• Jiu Xia insisted Xiao Hua travel with her to nearby Sword Blade Peak rather than go to Liuyun Lake, and he agreed to check whether Fairy Hongxia and the others were there.
• Xiao Hua used Awakening Thunder Evasion to catch up with Jiu Xia, who found his Lightning Evasion Technique strange.
• After several days of flight, Jiu Xia explained that the sun in the Sword Domain shifted position and that Xiao Hua had been using it as an unreliable guide.
• Jiu Xia predicted that Xiao Hua would ask her to lead, then guided him toward Sword Blade Peak as they flew for two more days.
• At Sword Blade Peak, Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua that a Sword God had formed the peak from his divine sword after defeating a demon god.

Xiao Hua sensed that Fairy Hongxia, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao were surrounded by six Illusion Sword Rank Three swordsmen and rushed to rescue them. As thunder drew near the battered group, Xiang Mufeng abandoned his attempt to intercept Xiao Hua alone and flew back toward the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat.

• Xiao Hua detected six Illusion Sword Rank Three swordsmen nearby and sped toward them while Jiu Xia followed, convinced he could unravel the crisis.
• Li Zongbao collapsed after using the Immortal-Piercing Whip, while Fairy Hongxia and Xiao Mao struggled to keep the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat moving and escape the swordsmen.
• Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao joked about Xiao Hua's contradictory habits as they faced what seemed like certain defeat.
• Xiao Mao recognized the approaching thunder as Xiao Hua's Lightning Evasion Technique, and Li Zongbao ordered the group to fly toward it while Fairy Hongxia opened a crack in the Innate True Water.
• Xiang Mufeng considered flying alone toward Xiao Hua to claim his treasures, then remembered Xiao Hua's strength and turned back toward the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat.

Xiao Hua arrived in time to stop the sword cultivators from killing Fairy Hongxia and the others, but Jiu Xia’s appearance and Xiao Hua’s cry of “Meng” left him with new questions. After the battle, Fairy Hongxia fainted, and Xiao Hua discovered that her qi, blood, and primordial qi were severely depleted.

• Xiao Hua pursued Xiang Mufeng through the thunder and killed him with the Spirit Severing Primordial Light.
• Fairy Hongxia’s Innate True Water and Xiao Mao’s magical power gave out as Wang Zhengqiang and four other sword cultivators closed in on the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat.
• Xiao Hua attacked the five with heavenly thunder and his weapons, while Jiu Xia appeared and restrained them with her voice.
• Xiao Hua killed Zuo Jian, Huang Ping, Wang Zhengqiang, Zhou Zhou, and Pu Chengfeng, then flew to Fairy Hongxia.
• Fairy Hongxia fainted as Xiao Hua turned to check on his brother, and he found that her qi and blood were depleted and her primordial qi was badly damaged.

Xiao Hua reunited with Li Zongbao, Xiao Mao, and the badly injured Fairy Hongxia, while Jiu Xia offered to restore Hongxia’s damaged dharma body and asked Xiao Hua to help with a future task. Xiao Hua treated Li Zongbao and realized Jiu Xia was carefully winning his trust, leaving their alliance and her request unresolved.

• Li Zongbao told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia’s dharma body had been nearly destroyed, and Jiu Xia said she could restore it if Xiao Hua later helped her.
• Jiu Xia examined Fairy Hongxia and warned that Li Zongbao’s meridians and dantian were severely damaged while Xiao Mao had exhausted his true essence.
• Xiao Hua gave Xiao Mao pills, then examined Li Zongbao and offered him a Sky Mending Pill to treat his injuries.
• Li Zongbao was startled that Xiao Hua could refine Sky Mending Pills, while Jiu Xia’s appearance left both Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao dazed.
• Xiao Hua suspected Jiu Xia was deliberately bestowing favors to secure his help, and Li Zongbao asked what pills Xiao Hua had given Xiao Mao.

Xiao Hua and Li Zongbao discussed the pills Xiao Hua had refined and the danger of his growing reputation exposing his secrets. Jiu Xia then explained three possible ways to heal Fairy Hongxia, with the best option depending on Xiao Hua’s ability to refine a Grade 1 spirit pill.

• Xiao Mao identified the pills Xiao Hua had given him as the kind Li Zongbao had shared with Golden Core cultivators during the Sword Tomb battle.
• Li Zongbao recognized Xiao Hua’s Yuxu Pill and warned that Xiao Hua’s fame would soon spread across Xiaoyu Continent, but Xiao Hua refused to reveal his secrets.
• Li Zongbao swallowed the Sky Mending Pill and began regulating his breath, while Xiao Hua told Xiao Mao to collect the belongings of the six Illusory Swords.
• Jiu Xia told Xiao Hua that Fairy Hongxia’s shattered bloodline and damaged vitality could be treated with an inferior method, a middle strategy, or an upper strategy.
• Jiu Xia explained that a Grade 1 spirit pill used with her secret art could help Fairy Hongxia’s dharma body break then stand and achieve great success, and Xiao Hua asked whether the pill he was about to refine could serve that purpose.

Jiu Xia examined Xiao Hua’s pills, discovered that his Wutuodan contained unusual Star Power, and used one to help Fairy Hongxia recover. After the group reached a secluded valley, Xiao Hua gave Jiu Xia his Duotian Star Array, and she handed him a detailed Flying Shadow Pill formula and materials list.

• Jiu Xia identified Xiao Hua’s pills as Grade 1 spirit pills and found that his Wutuodan contained Star Power capable of causing mutations.
• Jiu Xia gave Fairy Hongxia a Wutuodan, and Xiao Hua watched her continue to recover while the group waited aboard the flying boat.
• Xiao Mao found a secluded valley, and Xiao Hua set up the Duotian Star Array there.
• Jiu Xia recognized the array, and Xiao Hua gave it to her as thanks for saving Fairy Hongxia.
• Jiu Xia gave Xiao Hua a jade slip containing the Flying Shadow Pill formula and a detailed list of materials for pills from Grade 1 through Grade 6.

Xiao Hua studied Jiu Xia’s Flying Shadow Pill formula, prepared materials for six grades, and set out to refine a pill for the unconscious Fairy Hongxia. As he began preparing a cave, he suddenly realized that he had revealed an extraordinary number of secrets to Jiu Xia and wondered whether his trust in her was truly his own.

• Jiu Xia gave Xiao Hua the detailed Flying Shadow Pill formula and warned him not to pass it on, then offered him her collected materials.
• Xiao Hua shared the Duotian Star Array method with Jiu Xia, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao, and discovered that each grade of the Flying Shadow Pill required specially refined spirit blood.
• Xiao Hua and Jiu Xia studied the formula and herbs together, after which Xiao Hua sorted out six sets of ingredients and discussed how many pills he could refine with the spirit blood.
• Xiao Hua chose to find a cave and attempt the first-grade Flying Shadow Pill for Fairy Hongxia, who remained unconscious to aid her Dharma Body’s recovery.
• As Xiao Hua brought out puppets to enlarge the cave, he realized how many techniques and secrets he had revealed to Jiu Xia and questioned why he trusted her so readily.

Xiao Hua grew suspicious of Jiu Xia’s influence over him while refining the Flying Shadow Pill for her and trying to understand why Fairy Hongxia had not awakened. He successfully refined the Swift Sparrow blood into a phantom and began forcing it into the pill liquid.

• Xiao Hua reconsidered how Jiu Xia had gained his trust and wondered whether she had manipulated him into revealing his abilities and refining the Flying Shadow Pill.
• When Jiu Xia asked to watch him refine pills, Xiao Hua refused, and she left him to work while she watched over Fairy Hongxia.
• Xiao Hua refined the herbs for the Flying Shadow Pill and used his spare attention to begin remaking talismans for the Duotian Star Array as jade talismans.
• Xiao Hua worried that Fairy Hongxia had not awakened after taking the Wutuodan and wondered whether Jiu Xia was keeping her asleep until the pill was finished.
• After nine days of refining the Swift Sparrow blood, Xiao Hua bound its struggling phantom with soul threads and dragged it into the pill furnace.
• Xiao Hua used pill-merging hand seals to confine the Swift Sparrow phantom within the pill liquid.

Xiao Hua refined a superior Grade 1 Flying Shadow Pill for Fairy Hongxia, but Jiu Xia found it lacked the star power of his Wutuodan. As Xiao Hua began a second batch and meditated, he drew down extraterritorial star power, revealing a power that gave Jiu Xia hope for her own difficult goal.

• After forty-nine days, Xiao Hua completed the Flying Shadow Pill, and a Swift Sparrow phantom flew from the furnace before he caught it.
• Jiu Xia judged the pill to be a superior Grade 1 spirit pill but said it lacked the star power of the Wutuodan.
• Jiu Xia explained that Fairy Hongxia was dormant and healing, and Xiao Hua decided to try refining a Grade 2 pill rather than awaken her immediately.
• After resting half a day, Xiao Hua began a second batch of Flying Shadow Pills and paused his talisman work to meditate.
• Jiu Xia sensed pure star power pouring into Xiao Hua and secretly saw a pillar of starlight descend outside his cave, but she did not investigate.

Xiao Hua successfully refined a Grade 2 Flying Shadow Pill containing star power, and Jiu Xia urged him to attempt a Grade 3 pill for Fairy Hongxia’s recovery. After Jiu Xia awakened Hongxia and taught her a secret art, the women quickly became friendly, while Xiao Hua recognized that Hongxia was also considering Jiu Xia as a potential ally.

• Xiao Hua completed a Grade 2 Flying Shadow Pill using snow swallow spirit blood, and Jiu Xia confirmed that it contained star power.
• Jiu Xia persuaded Xiao Hua to try refining a Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill, offering the Grade 2 pill as a fallback for Hongxia’s treatment.
• Jiu Xia awakened Fairy Hongxia and introduced herself, prompting Xiao Hua to explain Jiu Xia’s abilities and help.
• Jiu Xia and Hongxia quickly grew friendly as Jiu Xia praised her and prepared to teach her the secret art for repairing her Dharma Body.
• Hongxia urged Xiao Hua to continue refining pills, and Xiao Hua realized she was cultivating Jiu Xia’s friendship as a useful alliance.

Xiao Hua struggled to refine a Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill for Fairy Hongxia, while Hongxia and Jiu Xia became sworn sisters outside the cave. After more than nine days, Xiao Hua emerged with the pill and Jiu Xia called him “Brother-in-law.”

• Fairy Hongxia and Jiu Xia agreed to become sworn sisters and planned to have Heaven and Earth witness their bond.
• Xiao Hua struggled to control the Cold Goose projection during the pill fusion and used his own essence blood to continue the refinement.
• Fairy Hongxia and Jiu Xia waited outside as the Cold Goose cried, and the pill furnace eventually fell silent.
• More than nine days later, a pillar of golden light rose from the cave, and Xiao Hua emerged with a jade casket containing the Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill.
• Xiao Hua gave the pill to Fairy Hongxia, explained that he wanted to help restore her, and was startled when Jiu Xia called him “Brother-in-law.”

Xiao Hua’s Grade 3 Flying Shadow Pill was revealed to be beyond grade, and Jiu Xia outlined how Fairy Hongxia could use it to cultivate an Ice Phoenix Dharma Body. The group discovered Xiao Hua had the innate substances needed to help forge it, and Jiu Xia explained how they could produce the remaining elements.

• Jiu Xia called Xiao Hua Brother-in-law and praised his beyond-grade Flying Shadow Pill, explaining that its golden threads lifted it beyond the nine grades.
• Jiu Xia told Fairy Hongxia that the pill could let her cultivate a Grade 3 Flying Shadow Technique, but that her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body still needed reforging with Innate True Water.
• Jiu Xia proposed using Innate True Fire alongside the Innate True Water, and learned that Xiao Hua’s Phoenix Dharma Body had fallen into the void.
• Xiao Hua revealed his Innate True Fire and Innate Metal Qi, then agreed to lend Jiu Xia his Innate Golden Mother and Innate Jellyfish.
• Jiu Xia explained that the Innate Jellyfish and Innate Golden Mother could generate Innate True Wood, while the Golden Mother and True Fire could produce Innate True Earth.

Jiu Xia taught Fairy Hongxia the secret technique for condensing an Innate Spirit Body, while Xiao Hua waited and refined jade talismans for the Duotian Star Array. After more than a hundred days, Hongxia began the mysterious process, leaving Xiao Hua to see the technique’s first signs at the chapter’s end.

• Jiu Xia explained that Fairy Hongxia could form an Innate Spirit Body capable of cultivating independently and possibly becoming an External Incarnation.
• Jiu Xia took Fairy Hongxia into the cave to teach her the secret technique, while Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Xiao Mao studied the Duotian Star Array outside.
• During the long wait, Xiao Hua refined two complete sets of jade talismans and considered using a teleportation array to reach the other side of Million Meng Mountain, then checked that Jiang Liuer was safe in his space.
• Jiu Xia emerged, collected the second-grade Flying Shadow Pill from Xiao Hua, and told him that she had already taught Fairy Hongxia the technique.
• Xiao Hua entered the cave and found Fairy Hongxia floating in a strange posture as Dharma power flowed in a cycle around her body.

Fairy Hongxia began rebuilding her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body through Jiu Xia’s secret technique while Xiao Hua supported her with the innate objects. As the new body formed, it remained unstable, leaving Xiao Hua anxiously watching over the dangerous process.

• Fairy Hongxia swallowed the Flying Shadow Pill and endured the painful destruction of her Ice Phoenix Dharma Body.
• Xiao Hua realized that his presence gave Fairy Hongxia the resolve to endure, and he kept smiling as she underwent nirvana.
• Fairy Hongxia’s body turned blood red, and the Cold Goose phantom expanded into a vast Dharma Body.
• At Fairy Hongxia’s instructions, Xiao Hua added Innate True Water, Innate True Fire, Innate Golden Qi, the Innate Golden Mother, and the Innate Jellyfish to the forming Dharma Body.
• Fairy Hongxia warned Xiao Hua to retrieve the Golden Mother and Jellyfish, and he did so as crystals began forming inside the unstable Dharma Body.

Fairy Hongxia struggled to fuse the Five Elements substances into her Ice Phoenix Dharma body, and Xiao Hua watched as the attempt nearly failed before the Flying Shadow Pill’s golden threads saved it. After Hongxia completed the tempering and reunited with Xiao Hua, the group prepared to resume their journey toward Million Meng Mountain.

• When cracks spread through the Five Elements substances, Fairy Hongxia poured her essence blood into her Ice Phoenix Dharma body and used the Flying Shadow Technique, but the fusion continued to fail.
• As Fairy Hongxia prepared to give up, golden threads from the Flying Shadow Pill emerged and bound the Five Elements substances together, allowing her Dharma body to form successfully.
• Fairy Hongxia spent eighty-one days tempering her spiritual body and Dharma body while Xiao Hua stayed by her side, then embraced him after the Ice Phoenix Dharma body returned to her body.
• After Xiao Hua and Fairy Hongxia left the cave, Jiu Xia, Xiao Mao, and Li Zongbao congratulated Hongxia, and Jiu Xia explained how her new Dharma body would change her constitution and innate talent.
• Xiao Hua asked to continue to Million Meng Mountain, and Fairy Hongxia led the group aboard the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat toward Liuyun Lake.

Fairy Hongxia and her companions crossed the battlefields between Million Meng Mountain’s soul cultivators and Huan Kingdom’s sword cultivators, then found soul cultivators occupying the ice plains near Liuyun Lake. Li Zongbao concluded that the sword cultivators had pushed into Million Meng Mountain, and Fairy Hongxia chose a new route to avoid the soul cultivators.

• Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao steered the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat through numerous battles while Xiao Hua blocked attacks from both sides.
• Fairy Hongxia and the others saw soul cultivators living on the ice plains and wondered how they had arrived there.
• Li Zongbao argued that Huan Kingdom’s sword cultivators had entered Million Meng Mountain, seeking territory and resources amid the spiritual qi aberration.
• Xiao Hua questioned Li Zongbao’s conclusion, who explained that the region grew warmer toward Million Meng Mountain and that soul cultivators did not depend on spiritual qi.
• Fairy Hongxia studied a jade tablet and redirected the group’s route to avoid encountering more soul cultivators.

Xiao Hua and his companions encountered Ye Yu and other sword cultivators on their way to Million Meng Mountain, where Ye Yu warned them away before continuing onward. After he left, Jiu Xia explained that Ye Yu had used their reputation and careful words to prevent a fight, and the group considered how dangerous he might be.

• Xiao Hua sensed several figures approaching as the group flew past Liuyun Lake toward Million Meng Mountain.
• Li Zongbao, Fairy Hongxia, and Xiao Mao recognized Ye Yu as the leader of the soul formation in the Four Directions Sword Array at the Sword Tomb.
• Ye Yu introduced himself, acknowledged their past conflict, warned them not to enter Million Meng Mountain rashly, and continued toward it with his companions.
• Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao questioned Ye Yu's intentions, while Ye Yu denied that he planned to attack them and left.
• Jiu Xia reasoned that Ye Yu had approached cautiously because he knew their strength and wanted to discourage them from pursuing him.
• Fairy Hongxia urged caution around Ye Yu, and Jiu Xia reminded Xiao Hua that conflicts could not always be settled by killing.

Jiu Xia explained how Ye Yu had tried to lure Xiao Hua’s group into Million Meng Mountain, while Ye Yu waited there for them and guessed they were seeking clues from the past. Ye Yu then set out for Shebi Inner Village, despite his followers warning that the journey could endanger the Flying Dragon Sword Gate and his standing with Ji Man.

• Jiu Xia argued that Ye Yu’s warnings about Million Meng Mountain were a calculated attempt to make Xiao Hua’s group follow him, but Fairy Hongxia led them into the mountain after he had gone ahead.
• Ye Yu hid inside Million Meng Mountain and told his followers he had pretended to recognize Xiao Hua’s group because he was unsure he could defeat them.
• When his scout reported that Xiao Hua’s group had vanished from Liuyun Lake, Ye Yu guessed they had entered the mountain to find clues from that year.
• Ye Yu ordered his followers to head to Shebi Inner Village, but they warned that contacting its people could expose him to danger and jeopardize the Flying Dragon Sword Gate.
• Ye Yu hesitated when his followers also cautioned that Ji Man had not summoned him and might resent an uninvited visit.

Xiao Hua and his companions disguised themselves as soul cultivators before entering Million Meng Mountain, while Jiu Xia explained what little she knew about its villages and customs. The group remained at the mountain’s edge, dressed to blend in but still unsure about the region’s customs.

• Ye Yu ordered A Liu to find out where the cultivators were headed and follow them without being noticed.
• Xiao Hua and the others stopped their flying boat before entering Million Meng Mountain and decided to disguise themselves rather than approach as Daoist cultivators.
• Jiu Xia provided clothes resembling soul cultivators’ attire, and the group changed; Fairy Hongxia’s outfit made her look like a Ji Man.
• Jiu Xia explained that indigenous people lived in Witch Villages led by Witch Elders, and described the roles of Ji Mans and their consorts.
• Xiao Hua stopped Jiu Xia when her explanation of the villages’ family lines confused him, and Jiu Xia admitted she had not read further.

Xiao Hua and his companions traveled through the strange, barren Million Meng Mountain and followed Jiu Xia’s advice to hide from the local natives. The natives sensed them nearby, hunted small beasts, and drank their blood, leaving the group concealed as the three hunters headed back the way they came.

• Xiao Hua examined the damp, moss-colored soil and wondered why the mountain’s vegetation was so withered.
• As dawn broke, Xiao Hua spotted small beasts feeding on tiny fruits and sensed natives ahead.
• Jiu Xia and Fairy Hongxia vanished with a strange flash, and Xiao Hua persuaded Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao to hide away from the path.
• Several gaunt natives sniffed out the hidden group and threw wooden poles to catch the small beasts.
• Three natives licked and sucked blood from their prey, while two others gathered fruits; afterward, the three hunters headed back the way they came.

Xiao Hua and his companions encountered Jiajie Worms that disrupted cultivators’ spiritual power while traveling through Million Meng Mountain. After using Fairy Hongxia’s Innate True Water to evade the insects, they found a native left as an offering and discovered he had fainted from hunger.

• Xiao Hua and the others saw natives prepare to eat a man, but Jiajie Worms emerged from the mountain’s withered vegetation and exposed the hidden group.
• Jiu Xia explained that Jiajie Worms disrupted spiritual power, and Xiao Hua used Fairy Hongxia’s Innate True Water to shield all five companions.
• The insects avoided the protected group, while the frightened natives fled and left the unconscious man on a stone.
• Jiu Xia explained that traveling along the mountain paths would draw less attention than flying, so Xiao Hua agreed to continue on foot.
• Xiao Mao noticed the native was still alive, and Xiao Hua examined him and concluded that he had fainted from hunger.