Recaps

Xiao Hua and Han Zhu prepared to awaken Jiang Liuer from the Nirvana Realm by drawing on the Buddhist formation and the toppled Buddha statue. As they joined their Buddhist sense and power of faith, eight glowing swastika characters formed above their heads, and mysterious Buddhist seals began to appear.

• Xiao Hua explored the ruined plaza, then found Han Zhu and the others kneeling before a fierce, toppled Buddha statue whose remaining power forced two disciples to their knees.
• Han Zhu rang his golden bell to dispel the pressure, then sent the others into the main hall to search for opportunities while he examined a gold tablet and prepared to activate the formation.
• Yi, Bing, and the others returned with two gold tablets and a wooden fish, and Han Zhu directed them to sit in the Buddhist formation.
• Han Zhu explained that awakening Jiang Liuer could earn them great merit, help open a gateway above the main hall, and perhaps lead to the Buddhist Fruit; Xiao Hua brought Jiang Liuer out of his spirit storage pouch.
• Han Zhu, Xiao Hua, and the six others released their Buddhist sense and power of faith, forming eight glowing swastika characters above their heads as Buddhist seals appeared within them.

Han Zhu revealed that he had lured Xiao Hua and the other disciples into a Futuo Buddhist formation to sacrifice them and absorb their power. Xiao Hua resisted Han Zhu’s attempts to seize his sarira, while Han Zhu began to explain the truth about the supposed Buddhist ruins before stopping himself.

• Han Zhu summoned a Buddha statue with the golden bell and had the disciples pour their Buddhist consciousness and thought power into it to awaken Jiang Liuer.
• Han Zhu’s Dharma body emerged and merged with the statue, then drew sariras from the disciples and destroyed six of their bodies to absorb their blood and power.
• Xiao Hua realized Han Zhu had orchestrated the events at Jialan Temple to trick them into giving up their power, and accused him of betraying Buddhist compassion.
• Han Zhu merged the disciples’ sariras and essence blood into his own, while the statue suppressed Xiao Hua’s abilities and tried to crush him.
• Han Zhu revealed that the site was a Futuo Buddhist formation rather than Buddhist ruins, but stopped before explaining more and continued trying to pull out Xiao Hua’s sarira.

Xiao Hua confronted Han Zhu inside the Futuo Buddhist formation, learning that Han Zhu had used the formation to devour Buddhist cultivators and even Nascent Souls. The chapter left Xiao Hua facing Han Zhu after Han Zhu relaxed his mental power, still intent on drawing out Xiao Hua’s relic.

• Han Zhu questioned Xiao Hua about his relic and explained that his Wrathful Vajra cultivation devoured other cultivators’ relics.
• Han Zhu revealed that the supposed Buddhist Sect ruins were a Futuo Buddhist formation, and that he had trapped and devoured people within it.
• Han Zhu told Xiao Hua he planned to raise Xiao Hua’s blood relative only if the child showed potential, and otherwise would devour him.
• Xiao Hua disclosed that he cultivated the Baye Linglong Scripture, shocking Han Zhu, who then declared that Xiao Hua would become his prey.
• Xiao Hua summoned the As-You-Wish Staff and prepared to attack, while Han Zhu relaxed his mental power to test whether Xiao Hua could reveal his relic.

Xiao Hua struggled against Han Zhu, who used the Futuo Buddhist formation’s power of faith to suppress him and devour his Buddha Sarira. Just as Xiao Hua’s sarira was collapsing, he unleashed lightning that disrupted Han Zhu’s connection to the formation.

• Xiao Hua summoned the Buddha Sarira projection and tried to strike Han Zhu, but Han Zhu overwhelmed it with the power of faith and knocked the As-You-Wish Staff from Xiao Hua’s hand.
• Han Zhu forced Xiao Hua toward the ground and began tearing apart his Buddha Sarira, revealing his plan to keep Xiao Hua’s blood relative and raise the child to control the world.
• Xiao Hua projected his Buddha Sarira with a three-grade Lotus Platform, and Han Zhu recognized it as evidence that Xiao Hua had attained the Rúgòu Realm.
• Han Zhu’s Wrathful Vajra Dharma Body absorbed the Lotus Platform and began devouring Xiao Hua’s sarira, while Xiao Hua noticed that his Buddha Fire resisted the pressure.
• Xiao Hua recalled the power of belief and his soul techniques from Million Meng Mountain, then released dark green lightning that surrounded Jialan Temple and disrupted Han Zhu’s connection to the Futuo Buddhist formation.

Xiao Hua narrowly defeated Han Zhu in Jialan Temple by combining Innate True Water, Spirit Severing Primordial Light, and spirit fire, but he still had no way to awaken Jiang Liuer. After securing Han Zhu’s belongings and studying Buddhist records, Xiao Hua left the ruined hall with more questions about the Buddhist sect.

• Han Zhu attacked Xiao Hua while lightning battered his Wrathful Vajra Dharma Body, but Xiao Hua summoned more lightning and weakened it further.
• Han Zhu used a bell to disable Xiao Hua, but the Purifying Vase released Innate True Water that cut Xiao Hua off from the Futuo Buddhist formation.
• Xiao Hua used spirit fire to open a gap in Han Zhu’s Buddhist defenses, allowing the Spirit Severing Primordial Light to kill him.
• The Buddhist formation shattered the Innate True Water, and Xiao Hua rested before checking on Jiang Liuer, who remained in Nirvana.
• Xiao Hua collected Han Zhu’s sarira, weapons, cassock, and storage pouch, then destroyed his remains and avoided using the damaged Buddha Sarira.
• Xiao Hua spent several days examining Buddhist records from Han Zhu’s storage pouch, then put away a battered jade slip.

Xiao Hua mastered the Futuo Buddhist formation and discovered the Myriad Buddha Diagram hidden within it, a Buddhist legacy left behind after the sect’s destruction. He began using the Nine-Character Mantra to activate the diagram, and its power surged into his Buddha Sarira.

• Xiao Hua found Han Zhu’s Wrathful Vajra cultivation method and searched the Golden Kun scripts for clues about the Buddhist Sect ruins.
• Xiao Hua learned to control the Nine-Ringed Vajra Staff, and the Buddhist disciples’ thought power repaired his Buddha Sarira and advanced his Baye Linglong Scripture.
• Xiao Hua used the fourth Buddhist divine ability to destroy Jialan Temple’s rear wall, then flew above the Futuo Buddhist formation and sensed a hidden mystery.
• Xiao Hua activated the formation with the Nine-Ringed Vajra Staff and was drawn into a place filled with tens of thousands of broken Buddha statues, which he recognized as the Myriad Buddha Diagram.
• Xiao Hua sent the four true words of the Nine-Character Mantra into the Myriad Buddha Diagram, causing its statues to move and a force comparable to the Heavenly Dao to surge into his Buddha Sarira.

Xiao Hua entered the true Buddhist Sect ruins and was drawn to Mount Sumeru, where a Buddha statue resembling his Buddha Sarira repaired his sarira and restored several Buddhist treasures. The chapter left him examining the statue’s power and the objects he had brought to it.

• Xiao Hua’s Buddha Sarira re-formed, and the Myriad Buddha Diagram wrapped it in a kasaya-like robe before revealing the true Buddhist Sect ruins.
• Xiao Hua was engulfed by a force within the ruins and transported to Mount Sumeru above a sea of blood.
• A beam of Buddhist light carried Xiao Hua to a Buddha statue that resembled his Buddha Sarira, and he bowed before it.
• The statue’s mirror repaired the outline of Xiao Hua’s Buddha Sarira and restored the Pure Water Vase and Great Evolution Exquisite Pagoda.
• Xiao Hua put away the restored treasures and brought out Han Zhu’s kasaya, the Nine-Ringed Vajra Staff, and a small golden bell.

Xiao Hua was expelled from the Buddhist Sect ruins before he could awaken Jiang Liuer, then encountered two Nascent Soul cultivators in the storm. True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi tried to capture him, but Xiao Hua broke through their restraints and continued to fight his way free.

• Xiao Hua collected the Buddhist artifacts and presented Jiang Liuer to the Buddha Lord, whose bell and golden light pulled them into a mirror.
• Xiao Hua realized the Buddha Lord was sending Jiang Liuer elsewhere, but the pair were expelled from the Buddhist Sect ruins into a storm.
• Xiao Hua failed to locate Reclining Buddha Mountain and flew off to find someone who could direct him there.
• True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi recognized Xiao Hua, imprisoned the surrounding space, and pursued him as he tried to escape.
• Xiao Hua shattered their restraints with his staff and spirit fire, but Shanshengzi cast a blood curse to restrict his Lightning Evasion Technique.
• Xiao Hua broke Shanshengzi's quagmire with sword radiance, startling the two cultivators as he continued to resist capture.

Xiao Hua was cornered by True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi, so he unleashed the Phoenix Jade Talisman and badly wounded them before escaping toward the Qiang He Sea. The two pursued him from opposite directions, while Xiao Hua’s Lightning Evasion slowed as his magic power mysteriously dwindled.

• True Person Du'e blasted Xiao Hua out of his Sword Transformation and secretly sent ink-black blood threads into his sword light.
• Xiao Hua confronted True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi, then activated the Phoenix Jade Talisman when they blocked his escape.
• The Phoenix Illusion’s void storm destroyed the cultivators’ magic treasures and defenses, gravely injuring both men before Xiao Hua fled.
• True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi took pills and split up to pursue Xiao Hua toward the Qiang He Sea, planning to force him into a region with little Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
• After several hours, Xiao Hua’s Lightning Evasion slowed as his magic power mysteriously vanished, allowing True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi to draw closer.

Xiao Hua was cornered by True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi, while True Person Leixiao tried and failed to reach him in time. As Xiao Hua prepared to make his last stand, Xue Xue and Helpless appeared and sacrificed themselves to protect him, leaving Xiao Hua using the willow branch to try to save them.

• Xiao Hua fled toward Million Meng Mountain but could not shake True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi, and True Person Leixiao pursued him after realizing they had been tracking him for a long time.
• After several days of pursuit, Xiao Hua stopped in a bamboo grove and prepared to fight rather than be captured or sealed again.
• Xue Xue appeared and urged Xiao Hua to flee east toward the Qiang He Sea, while Helpless arrived to stand against Shanshengzi.
• Xue Xue self-destructed to attack True Person Du'e, but he contained her blood mist with his Nascent Soul hand.
• Xiao Hua used the willow branch Other Shore to send rosy light into Xue Xue's blood mist in an attempt to save her.
• Helpless self-destructed against Shanshengzi, who weakened the blast with a secret art, and Xiao Hua sent another stream of rosy light into Helpless's blood mist.

Xiao Hua fought True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi after Xue Xue and Wu Nai sacrificed themselves to curse the two Nascent Soul cultivators. Unable to defeat them, he escaped toward the Qiang He Sea, while the blood curse briefly disrupted his pursuers.

• The blood mist from Xue Xue and Wu Nai’s sacrifice broke through True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi’s defenses and infected them with a blood curse.
• Xiao Hua attacked True Person Du'e with the Spirit Severing Primordial Light and Shanshengzi with his Spirit Fire, but the two cultivators blocked his strikes with their Nascent Souls and rings.
• Shanshengzi and True Person Du'e counterattacked with restraints, a lightning-absorbing bead, and a needle, leaving Xiao Hua trapped and unable to avenge Xue Xue and Wu Nai.
• Xiao Hua decided to flee east toward the Qiang He Sea, hoping to preserve the chance of reviving Xue Xue and Wu Nai and taking revenge later.
• The blood curse disrupted both enemies’ Nascent Souls, allowing Xiao Hua to break free with lightning and flee as True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi renewed their pursuit.

Xiao Hua escaped True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi through a mysterious power, prompting them to pursue him toward Qiang He Sea. Meanwhile, the otherworldly Zhang Jie followed the aura of the Other Shore eastward, learned about the Wumeng Mountain Range and the Lost Land from Du Peng, and exposed him as a demonic fiend before continuing on.

• Xiao Hua vanished as the fine needle and Shanshengzi's giant hand attacked, and True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi realized capturing him could benefit their cultivation.
• True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi set off toward Qiang He Sea to pursue Xiao Hua despite the blood curse slowing them.
• The seven-colored figure sensed the Other Shore's power twice, flew east, and transformed into a woman named Zhang Jie near a natural restriction.
• Du Peng approached Zhang Jie and told her that the Wumeng Mountain Range lay beyond the restriction and that the Lost Land lay beyond the range.
• Zhang Jie called Du Peng a demonic fiend and struck him with white light, revealing his demonic nature before she flew east.
• After recovering, Du Peng wondered why Zhang Jie sought the Wumeng Mountain Range and watched the eastern horizon with a faint smile.

After Xiao Hua placed the willow twig carrying Xue Xue and Wu Nai’s souls into his space, black-and-white radiance transformed it into a vast world where life and death coexisted. Xiao Hua realized the souls were likely on the newly revealed yin side, while his green-robed Primordial Spirit remained behind to cultivate.

• Du Peng rejoiced at learning someone had crossed the Wumeng region and rushed off to confront Diluo.
• A humanoid beastlike being emerged from a stone, suspected the woman was in the Lost Land, and followed Zhang Jie’s direction.
• Xiao Hua placed the willow twig carrying Xue Xue and Wu Nai’s souls into his space, triggering a violent transformation that created suns, moons, stars, mountains, and rivers.
• Xiao Hua found Zhi Ma restored to its original form, Little Yellow and Xiaohei changed, Little Silver nearby, and Dai Er meditating as a little girl.
• Xiao Hua discovered that his divine sense had become a lotus-shaped jade tablet and reasoned that the souls’ arrival had brought yin and yang, life and death, into his space.
• Xiao Hua concluded that Xue Xue and Wu Nai were likely on the yin side, then left his green-robed Primordial Spirit to refine the Pingtian Rod and practice the Lightning Drawing Technique.

Jade Slip Xiao Hua explored the newly formed Netherworld Yin Face and discovered that Xue Xue’s soul had become its first soul, sleeping within a Netherworld Lotus. He left a demonic stone statue to guard her, honored his master’s soul in a Netherworld Bamboo, and returned to the Yang Face determined to learn how Xue Xue and his master had come to his aid.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua found the Yin Face filled by a silent blood sea and recognized Xue Xue’s soul sleeping in the Netherworld Lotus at its center.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua tried to leave a fragment of his Primordial Spirit beside Xue Xue but could not separate one after the spatial mutation.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua brought his original-form stone statue and the Chiyou Banner to the lotus, then used demonic fire to begin cultivating the statue as Xue Xue’s guardian.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua realized Xue Xue could not leave the Yin Face because her soul had created and become bound to it.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua honored his master, whose soul rested in a Netherworld Bamboo, and promised to care for Mistress, Wu Qing, and Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua returned to the Yang Face, retrieved the pink jade slip, and sought to learn how Xue Xue and his master had found him in danger.

Xiao Hua read Xue Xue’s final confession and learned that she had foreseen his danger and deliberately prepared to sacrifice herself and Wu Nai to save him. He left the space determined to survive and avenge Xue Xue and his Master, while True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi spotted him flying a hundred li away.

• Xue Xue’s jade slip revealed that she had long foreseen her death and planned to sacrifice herself and Wu Nai to protect Xiao Hua.
• Xiao Hua grieved over Xue Xue’s love and realized that his feelings for her had grown despite his earlier uncertainty.
• Xiao Hua vowed to survive and avenge Xue Xue and his Master, then left the space.
• True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi detected Xiao Hua a hundred li away and were astonished that he had appeared so far ahead.

Xiao Hua fled across the Qiang He Sea with True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi still pursuing him, while he resolved to cultivate and seek revenge. True Person Leixiao tracked Xiao Hua’s aura and discovered his route toward the sea, then hurried after him.

• Xiao Hua reappeared after using Space Yin-Yang Dual Opening, saw True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi pursuing him, and decided to cultivate demonic blood with Zhang Qingxiao’s blood ring.
• True Person Leixiao followed a secret treasure’s trace to the bamboo grove, found signs that two Thunder Control Sect disciples had died, and sent a message asking other disciples to investigate.
• True Person Leixiao used a secret technique to locate Xiao Hua’s direction and realized he was heading toward the Qiang He Sea, then pursued him with Lightning Evasion Technique.
• Xiao Hua flew over the Qiang He Sea for two months while True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi maintained their pursuit at a distance.
• Xiao Hua checked his expanded space, where Xiao Guo tended spirit herbs and green-robed Xiao Hua continued developing his abilities.

Xiao Hua prepared to refine the Spirit Severing Primordial Light while Shanshengzi and True Person Du'e rapidly pursued him. After Xiao Hua’s ambush wounded Du'e and the two cultivators sealed him with the Yin Yang Seal, a mysterious force tied to Xue Xue’s promised vitality suddenly pulled the sea and the cultivators downward.

• Jade Slip Xiao Hua urged green-robed Xiao Hua to refine the Spirit Severing Primordial Light before continuing the Pingtian Rod, and green-robed Xiao Hua began working on it.
• Xiao Hua discovered that Shanshengzi and True Person Du'e had neutralized Xue Xue and Wunai’s blood curses and were closing in on him.
• Shanshengzi and Du'e trapped Xiao Hua between two Nascent Soul hands, but Xiao Hua vanished and used the Golden Thread Formless Sword to badly wound Du'e’s leg.
• Shanshengzi and Du'e revealed their Yin Yang Seal talismans and bound Xiao Hua despite his efforts to escape.
• A powerful restraint and suction force erupted from the Qiang He Sea, dragging the seawater, Shanshengzi, and Du'e downward as Xiao Hua recognized Xue Xue’s promised vitality.

Xiao Hua and his pursuers were swept into a hidden passage containing the Great Sumeru Buddha Array, the Song of Years Demon Array, and the Five Elements Annihilation Great Formation. True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi perished, while Xiao Hua survived with his cultivation stripped away and emerged elsewhere in the Qiang He Sea, leaving the passage’s origin and purpose unexplained.

• A massive heavenly force trapped Xiao Hua, True Person Du'e, and Shanshengzi in a vortex, and their attempted Nascent Soul teleports failed.
• The three were drawn into a vast formation that True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi identified as the Great Sumeru Buddha Array and the Five Elements Annihilation Great Formation.
• Gray growth-ring ripples aged True Person Du'e and Shanshengzi to death, while Xiao Hua remained unaffected by the passage of time.
• The five-colored radiance erased Xiao Hua’s Daoist, Buddhist, and sword cultivation and removed the seals on his Niwan Palace and middle dantian.
• Xiao Hua fainted after encountering a seven-colored conch-like object, then emerged naked from the passage into another expanse of seawater.

True Person Leixiao reached the site where Xiao Hua and the others had vanished, then returned to the Thunder Control Sect with news of their presumed deaths. Ganlei Zi learned that Xue Xue and Wu Nai had gone to the bamboo grove together, but the events there remained unexplained.

• True Person Leixiao followed the strange celestial phenomenon into the Qiang He Sea, but found the site calm and no trace of Xiao Hua, True Person Du'e, or Shanshengzi.
• A lightning transmission talisman told True Person Leixiao that Xue Xue and Wu Nai had perished at the bamboo grove, leaving him confused about how they had arrived there first.
• True Person Leixiao returned to the Great Thunder Hall and reported what he had found to Ganlei Zi.
• Ganlei Zi learned that Xue Xue had visited Myriad Thunder Valley after emerging from seclusion and that Wu Nai had left with her after entrusting a jade slip to Zhuo.
• Ganlei Zi declared that Xiao Hua's fate no longer concerned the Thunder Control Sect, but ordered that Myriad Thunder Valley remain and promised protection to Zhuo.

After Xiao Hua’s expulsion and disappearance in the Qiang He Sea, rumors of his fate faded as other events drew attention across Xiaoyu Continent. Those who cared for him mourned or doubted his death, while Zhang Qingxiao and Jiu Xia found signs that he might still be alive.

• News spread that Xiao Hua had been expelled from the Thunder Control Sect, then reports revealed that he was its Nameless Nascent Soul and possessed sword and soul techniques.
• After reports said Xiao Hua had been pursued by two mid-Nascent Soul cultivators and three Nascent Soul cultivators had died in the Qiang He Sea, discussion of him faded as new events unfolded across Xiaoyu Continent.
• Fairy Hongxia grieved for Xiao Hua and Xue Xue, vowed that Xiao Hua would remain her only husband, and swore never to discuss dual cultivation with another.
• At the earthen mounds in Xun Lei Palace, Xun Shu and Qian Diheng mourned Xiao Hua and Xue Xue, and Qian Diheng affirmed his respect for Xiao Hua.
• Zhang Qingxiao set out to check whether Jiang Liuer’s life-bound jade tablet showed that Xiao Hua had died.
• In the Sword Domain, Jiu Xia used her four-tailed fox to divine Xiao Hua’s fate, but saw only visions of the Qiang He Sea and could not determine whether he was alive.

Xiao Hua awakened in the Qiang He Sea after escaping his pursuers, but discovered that the formation had stripped away his Golden Core and most of his Buddhist cultivation. He survived with his soul cultivation and independent space intact, then began making plans to recover while grieving Xue Xue.

• After drifting unconscious through the sea, Xiao Hua opened his eyes and frightened away seabirds with the starlight in them.
• Xiao Hua awakened and found his meridians empty, his Golden Core gone, and his divine sense lost with the Buddha Sarira.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that his soul cultivation and independent space had survived, while Green-robed Xiao Hua continued refining the Spirit Severing Primordial Light.
• Jade Slip Xiao Hua began refining pills and observed that the space's creatures and spirit herbs were gaining vitality.
• Xiao Hua entered the Netherworld Yin Face and looked at the Netherworld Lotus as he mourned Xue Xue.

Xiao Hua traveled across the Qiang He Sea, restoring his cultivation while searching for land and sheltering from a storm. When his divine sense began to recover, he discovered that his lower dantian held only traces where his Golden Core, Lightning Cores, and metal-qi pill-grains had been, with no discernible differences among them.

• Xiao Hua found that Yin Yang dual opening had not noticeably improved the pills he refined, then resolved to cultivate in the Qiang He Sea until he could safely return to Xiaoyu Continent.
• Xiao Hua discovered richer spiritual qi, rode several large sea creatures, and gradually gathered enough true essence to fly again.
• Xiao Hua flew east as the spiritual qi grew denser, then sought shelter in a cave among reefs when a storm approached.
• Xiao Hua cultivated in the cave for more than ten days and woke as his divine sense began to recover.
• Xiao Hua examined his lower dantian and found no Golden Core, only indistinguishable traces where it, his Lightning Cores, and his metal-qi pill-grains had been.

After the Five Elements Annihilation Great Formation destroyed his cultivation, Xiao Hua examined his damaged dantians and began arranging new cultivation paths for his Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist powers. He ended by discovering a multicolored, blood-shaped crystal beside Shang Hua Ming’s divine statue in his space.

• Xiao Hua found a nebula of Golden Core traces in his lower dantian, but they did not grow when True Essence entered them.
• He discovered a sword-shaped Primordial Spirit and eight heart swords in his middle dantian, then decided to cultivate Confucian Vast Righteous Qi using the Dan Xin Jue and the Dan Xin he had obtained.
• Xiao Hua placed the Buddha Sarira, Baye Linglong Scripture, Great Evolution Exquisite Pagoda, and Golden Kun in his Niwan Palace, and realized the pagoda could cultivate the Buddha Sarira.
• He gave the Golden Kun and a secret technique for using corpse brain matter to the Buddha Sarira so it could cultivate the Heavenly Eye.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that his meridians, physical body, and bloodline remained intact, then took out the blood ring and found a multicolored crystal resembling a drop of blood beside Shang Hua Ming’s divine statue.

Xiao Hua investigated the mysterious links between the seven-colored conch, Ming Hua, and the five-colored crystal, then resumed cultivation and endured a prolonged storm at sea. After the storm passed, he discovered that he had returned to Da Qi Reef, where memories of Xue Xue came back to him.

• Xiao Hua suspected that the seven-colored conch was Ming Hua's true body and that the five-colored crystal was connected to Ming Hua and the triple grand formation.
• Xiao Hua arranged for the Primordial Spirit in his bones to cultivate Shang Hua Ming's Bone Tempering Art and study the five-colored crystal, then used the blood ring to cultivate the Blood Shadow Art.
• Xiao Hua released his reborn Buddha Sarira into the storm, and he used lightning attracted by the Small Pouch to temper his body.
• After more than ten days of storms, the rain stopped and Xiao Hua recognized the reef beneath him as Da Qi Reef.
• Xiao Hua remembered meeting Kua Qiao'er and Kua Yueming there with Xue Xue and reflected that the place remained while the people had changed.

Xiao Hua cultivated at Da Qi Reef for several months, recovering his Daoist and Buddhist cultivation while making rapid progress in Confucian cultivation. After Xiao Yin sensed danger, Xiao Hua fled east to escape a powerful sea beast and continued searching for a safe island, discovering that the islands in the depths of the Qiang He Sea were occupied or guarded by sea beasts.

• Xiao Hua secluded himself at Da Qi Reef, drawing in spiritual and stellar force as his Daoist and Buddhist cultivation recovered and his Confucian Vast Righteous Qi developed.
• Xiao Yin sensed a powerful presence, and Xiao Hua realized that pursuers might be searching for him before fleeing eastward.
• A giant tentacled sea beast struck Xiao Hua with its divine sense, but the rabbit talisman protected his Niwan Palace and Xiao Hua escaped underwater.
• The sea beast reached Da Qi Reef, destroyed much of it, and headed south while Xiao Hua fled east using the Ink Trace Shadow Concealment Art.
• Xiao Hua spent several months evading dangerous sea beasts and refining jade talismans for the Duotian Star Array, then searched for an island to hide on.
• Xiao Hua found that most islands in the depths of the Qiang He Sea were occupied or guarded by sea beasts.