Recaps

Xiao Hua set out for the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue after learning he lacked the spirit stones to travel by Teleportation Arrays. Meanwhile, Huang Xu told Hall Master Yue that he had found True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site and revealed that Zhe Jun and the disciples sent back with him had vanished.

• Xiao Hua gave Liu Qingyu the jade slip route to the Heavenly Alliance, but Liu Qingyu explained that the group lacked enough spirit stones for the Teleportation Arrays.
• Xiao Hua decided to go to the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue, and Yuehua offered to lead him there.
• Huang Xu traveled with Hall Master Yue toward Jiangyuan City and warned that he needed to reach the Luoxian Sect’s Sect Leader urgently.
• Huang Xu told Hall Master Yue that he had found True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site, where most of the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array remained intact despite signs of lightning tribulation.
• Huang Xu explained that Zhe Jun and ten disciples had failed to return after he sent them toward the mountain gate, prompting him to hurry to report the matter to the Sect Leader.

Huang Xu carried news of the missing Zhe Jun and the remains of True Person Huangqiong to Hall Master Yue, who escorted him by a grueling series of Teleportation Arrays to Night Wind Valley. There, Huang Xu and Yue Kong set out toward the Dao Alliance Meeting through the valley’s dangerous storms and soul-shaking winds.

• Huang Xu told Hall Master Yue that Zhe Jun and the others had vanished while transporting True Person Huangqiong’s remains, and that Hall Master Wang had sent him to deliver the remains to the Sect Leader.
• Hall Master Yue and Huang Xu reached Jiangyuan City, learned that Sect Leader Xian Xiaozhi had gone to Night Wind Valley, and began pursuing him through Teleportation Arrays.
• After three days of long-distance teleportation, Huang Xu collapsed from exhaustion, but Yue Kong helped him up and they continued to the guarded array at Night Wind Valley.
• Huang Xu used a jade pendant to shield himself from Night Wind Valley’s eerie howling, and Yue Kong pointed out the distant light marking the Dao Alliance Meeting.
• Huang Xu and Yue Kong flew toward the meeting through the valley’s storms, where wind and sand hindered their progress and pressure began sealing Huang Xu’s Nascent Soul.

Huang Xu found Xian Xiaozhi just as the Dao Alliance’s emergency meeting began and gave him a storage ring containing discoveries tied to True Person Huangqiong and a spiritual-root selection technique. Xian Xiaozhi made it into Night Wind Valley before the third bell, where the gathered cultivators began rising on jade pillars and wondered why the meeting had been called.

• Yue Kong and Huang Xu met Xian Xiaozhi as the Alliance Meeting’s first bell rang, and Huang Xu handed him a storage ring containing the location of True Person Huangqiong’s tribulation site and a secret spiritual-root selection technique.
• Xian Xiaozhi ordered Yue Kong to take Huang Xu back to the sect, then hurried into Night Wind Valley as the second bell rang.
• Xian Xiaozhi reached a jade pillar and sat on it before the third bell sealed the surrounding jade-colored light, leaving a late-arriving crimson-robed cultivator unable to join the meeting.
• The jade pillars rose with Xian Xiaozhi and the other attendees, while Alliance Leader Wen’s enormous pillar surged upward and Yue Jiangling asked Xian Xiaozhi why the meeting had been called early.
• Xian Xiaozhi saw leaders from several neighboring alliances gathered in the valley and realized that nine of the Dao Alliance’s eighty-one Immortal Alliances had assembled.

Xian Xiaozhi and the other cultivators gathered for an emergency Immortal Alliance meeting, where their jade pillars transformed into branches of a vast tree. The tree revealed all eighty-one alliances and dozens of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, while the reason for the urgent meeting remained unknown.

• Xian Xiaozhi absorbed pure Spiritual Qi as the jade pillars beneath the cultivators transformed into branches and joined Wen Jie Wen's tree trunk.
• Wen Jie Wen explained that the Dao Alliance had summoned the Eighty-one Immortal Alliances under conflicting orders, but had not disclosed the meeting's purpose.
• Xian Xiaozhi and Li Pan traded insults, and Fairy Qingyan dismissed Li Pan's talk of establishing a sect in Danxiao Kingdom.
• Nine bolts of lightning appeared in the sky and drew the dark-green spheres together, revealing an enormous tree beneath another layer of heaven.
• Xian Xiaozhi saw the leaders of all eighty-one alliances and dozens of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators gathered across the tree, then failed to reach the distant trunk with his divine sense.

Xian Xiaozhi attended a Dao Alliance meeting in a mysterious space where Old Man Gu Qiong appeared in person and True Person Ji Yan announced the alliance faced a desperate situation. Ji Yan raised the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration and asked whether any Tribulation Crossing cultivators had sensed the Gate of the Immortal Realm, leaving the assembly silent.

• Xian Xiaozhi wondered whether the great tree connected distant places and whether those present were there in body or spirit.
• Old Man Gu Qiong appeared at the Alliance Meeting, and the gathered cultivators respectfully greeted him alongside True Person Ji Yan.
• Old Man Gu Qiong recalled the Demon Realm invasion and said this was likely his last Alliance Meeting on Yilin Continent.
• True Person Ji Yan expelled eleven absent cultivators from the Dao Alliance, but Old Man Gu Qiong ordered that their sects not be punished for their mistakes.
• True Person Ji Yan explained the Dao Alliance had investigated the centuries-long Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration without reaching firm conclusions and called the alliance's situation desperate.
• True Person Ji Yan asked the Tribulation Crossing cultivators whether they had sensed the Gate of the Immortal Realm, and none answered.

At the Dao Alliance meeting, Old Man Gu Qiong and other Tribulation Crossing cultivators revealed that the Gate of the Immortal Realm had become impossible to sense amid the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration. The Alliance decided to search for passages to other realms while investigating the growing loss of cultivators’ lifespans, which had begun affecting Nascent Soul cultivators as well.

• Old Man Gu Qiong said his Gate of the Immortal Realm had grown blurred, and nearly a thousand Mahayana cultivators had died in tribulations over the past six hundred years.
• True Person Ji Yan and other Tribulation Crossing cultivators reported that they could no longer sense the Gate of the Immortal Realm, and the meeting debated ways to reach other realms or develop new cultivation techniques.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and True Person Ji Yan ordered the Dao Alliance to search Yilin Continent for spatial passages to other realms.
• Old Man Gu Qiong told the meeting that Nascent Soul cultivators had also begun to feel their lifespans draining away.
• Fairy Mo Yun observed that lifespan loss worsened when cultivators used dharma power, and Old Man Gu Qiong explained its connection to cultivation and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi aberration without offering a solution.

At the Daoist Alliance meeting, True Person Ji Yan and Old Man Gu Qiong sought ideas for addressing cultivators’ shortened lifespans, and Yelü Qing suggested investigating Heavenly Alliance cultivators who cultivated Primordial Spirits. Ji Yan then revealed that the Heavenly Alliance had infiltrated the Daoist Alliance and that the Peng Family had vanished through a concealed teleportation array, leaving the meeting to wonder what ancient formation the family had inherited.

• True Person Ji Yan asked the meeting to share ideas about the loss of cultivators’ lifespan limits, but no one initially offered an answer.
• Yelü Qing suggested that the Daoist Alliance investigate whether Heavenly Alliance cultivators who cultivated Primordial Spirits suffered the same lifespan losses.
• Old Man Gu Qiong praised Yelü Qing’s suggestion, promised an investigation, and offered him a spirit artifact as a reward.
• After Old Man Gu Qiong’s reward prompted more cultivators to offer ideas, True Person Ji Yan told them to submit their suggestions on jade slips for review.
• True Person Ji Yan reported that Heavenly Alliance cultivators had infiltrated the Daoist Alliance and that the Peng Family had disappeared, leaving behind a concealed teleportation array tied to an ancient inherited formation.

At the Dao Alliance meeting, True Person Ji Yan revealed the Heaven Alliance’s defections and warned of Devil Race attacks before calling for cooperation to find ways to select and train new disciples. The meeting found that the Ye Family’s cultivation-technique modifications offered a promising approach, and the cultivators began sharing and examining their methods.

• True Person Ji Yan said the Heaven Alliance had taken the Peng Family and the Ji Shui Washing Heart Formation, and that his disciple True Person Xiyue had defected; Xian Xiaozhi suggested the Heaven Alliance might be able to extend cultivators’ lifespans.
• True Person Ji Yan warned that Devil Race members had attacked nearly twenty clans and close to two million disciples, and ordered the cultivators to kill them and report their information.
• True Person Ji Yan presented Chongxi Sect’s Bone Selection method and three modified Qi Cultivation techniques; Old Man Gu Qiong said only four thousand of thirty thousand disciples had reached peak Qi Cultivation, and none had established a foundation.
• Yu Hongzi shared his Meridian Identification method and modified technique, while Ancestor Ye Family presented two techniques adapted for the Ye Family’s descendants.
• Old Man Gu Qiong said the Ye Family’s modification methods were more useful than the earlier submissions, and True Person Ji Yan urged everyone to share new techniques and disciple-selection methods.

Old Man Gu Qiong exchanged and explained sects’ cultivation techniques and disciple-selection arts, then revealed his own method, Choosing Souls, which had improved Foundation Establishment results. As the alliances began presenting their methods, Xian Xiaozhi examined True Person Huangqiong’s recovered belongings and worried about surviving the aberrant spiritual qi and lightning tribulation.

• Dozens of late Tribulation Stage cultivators gave Old Man Gu Qiong their techniques and disciple-selection methods, which he examined and explained over ten days.
• Old Man Gu Qiong revealed Choosing Souls, a method he developed from studying Heavenly Alliance Nascent Soul Cultivation Techniques, and said it had helped thirty percent of Tianzhao Palace’s fifty thousand selected disciples reach Foundation Establishment.
• True Person Ji Yan praised the method, and Old Man Gu Qiong said he believed the Ye family’s cultivation technique could raise the success rate to fifty percent.
• Cultivators from the Lühong Immortal Alliance presented their methods, which True Person Ji Yan judged crude, before the Chongxi Immortal Alliance began speaking.
• Xian Xiaozhi inspected the storage ring Huang Xu had delivered and found True Person Huangqiong’s belongings intact, including the array flags, but feared he could not survive the lightning tribulation or spiritual qi aberration.

At the Alliance Meeting, Xian Xiaozhi revealed that the Luoxian Sect possessed a Spiritual Root selection technique attributed to Senior Zhang Xiaohua. The chapter left Old Man Gu Qiong demanding that Xian Xiaozhi recite the technique, as the gathered cultivators listened.

• Xian Xiaozhi discovered Huang Xu’s jade slip and learned that the Chan He Sect had used a Spiritual Root selection technique to choose thousands of disciples.
• Alliance Leader Wen Jie asked Xian Xiaozhi whether the Luoxian Sect had any disciple selection techniques, and Xian Xiaozhi presented the technique to the gathering.
• Xian Xiaozhi said Senior Zhang Xiaohua had taught the technique to the Chan He Sect, and that Liu Han Huan had hesitated to accept a modified cultivation method.
• True Person Ji Yan asked Xian Xiaozhi to copy the jade slip for Wen Jie, while Fubo the Rogue dismissed the technique as untested.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered Xian Xiaozhi to recite the technique, and Xian Xiaozhi began reading its explanation of Spiritual Roots.

Xian Xiaozhi delivered Xiao Hua’s Spiritual Root selection technique to the Dao Alliance, whose leaders recognized its importance and ordered it copied and distributed throughout the Alliance. After learning that Luoxian Sect disciples carrying the other copy had vanished, they suspected Heavenly Alliance interference and sent troops to protect the Chan He Sect.

• True Person Ji Yan used the Alliance Meeting Tree to retrieve the jade slip from Xian Xiaozhi, despite the strain it placed on him.
• True Person Ji Yan and Old Man Gu Qiong examined the technique, recognized its connection to traces of witchcraft, and ordered copies sent to every Dao Alliance sect, school, and clan.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered ten thousand disciples near Jing Long Mausoleum to test the technique, then learned it contained no cultivation method and that Luoxian Sect disciples carrying the other copy had disappeared.
• True Person Ji Yan suspected a Heavenly Alliance spy had taken the missing copy, and he and Old Man Gu Qiong feared the Chan He Sect was in danger.
• True Person Ji Yan ordered ten thousand elite disciples from Night Wind Valley to protect the Chan He Sect and invite its Sect Master and disciples connected to Zhang Xiaohua to the Dao Alliance.

The Dao Alliance leaders recognized the importance of Zhang Xiaohua’s cultivation technique and prepared to welcome him at Star Cloud Ridge. Old Man Gu Qiong used a remarkable Nascent Soul projection to travel there, while the Alliance Meeting turned to rewarding Chan He Sect and summoning Huang Xu.

• True Person Ji Yan ordered a continental teleportation bridge prepared and shared Zhang Xiaohua’s cultivation technique with the gathered cultivators.
• Old Man Gu Qiong decided to reach Star Cloud Ridge himself, then sent his Nascent Soul through the void and projected it toward its destination.
• True Person Ji Yan explained that Gu Qiong’s feat combined void escape with a modified Nascent Soul Primordial Spirit projection technique.
• True Person Ji Yan agreed that Chan He Sect deserved a reward and ordered the Dao Alliance to summon Huang Xu, who had delivered the jade slip.
• Li Pan rebuked Xian Xiaozhi for claiming credit for Chan He Sect’s achievement, leaving him speechless.

Huang Xu reported how he obtained the Spiritual Root selection technique, prompting the Dao Alliance leaders to investigate Zhang Xiaohua and warn of Heavenly Alliance infiltrators. After ten thousand children arrived for testing, True Person Ji Yan and the other cultivators compared their old selection methods with the technique, and Ji Yan prepared to reveal his results.

• Huang Xu entered the Alliance Meeting, received praise and promised rewards, and recounted how he acquired the Spiritual Root selection technique from Chan He Sect.
• True Person Ji Yan and the other cultivators questioned Huang Xu about Zhang Xiaohua and learned that Yu Zhuo Hong had auctioned several dozen jade slips containing selection techniques.
• True Person Ji Yan warned that Heavenly Alliance members had infiltrated Fengyan Kingdom and even Luoxian Sect, and ordered the sects to investigate their disciples.
• Dao Alliance disciples brought ten thousand children to the meeting, and True Person Ji Yan proposed comparing the old selection methods with the Spiritual Root selection technique.
• True Person Ji Yan and the other Tribulation Transcendence cultivators tested children with their methods, then Ji Yan prepared to announce his results.

At the Dao Alliance meeting, cultivators tested the Spiritual Root selection technique and confirmed that even low-level disciples could use it with high accuracy. Liu Han Huan explained how Chan He Sect encountered Zhang Xiaohua, then revealed that Zhang had left with Nuo Yeqing, Liu Qingyu, and Yue Hua; True Person Ji Yan asked where he had gone.

• True Person Ji Yan, Fairy Mo Yun, and other cultivators compared their conflicting disciple-selection results and praised the Spiritual Root technique for identifying who could cultivate.
• Forty disciples screened four hundred children, and their results largely matched the senior cultivators' selections.
• A Dao Alliance disciple reported that the Alliance Leader had defeated Heaven Alliance cultivators, brought Chan He Sect members to Jing Long Mausoleum, and received Zhang Xiaohua's modified cultivation techniques.
• True Person Ji Yan welcomed Liu Han Huan and asked him to recount how he met Zhang Xiaohua.
• Old Man Gu Qiong returned through a spatial collapse, and Liu Han Huan described the discovery of the Duotian Demon Subduing Star Array and how Zhang Xiaohua left Chan He Sect with Nuo Yeqing, Liu Qingyu, and Yue Hua.
• True Person Ji Yan asked Liu Han Huan where Zhang Xiaohua had gone.

At the Dao Alliance Meeting, True Person Ji Yan questioned Liu Han Huan and the Chan He Sect disciples about Xiao Hua and his Spiritual Root methods. After Old Man Gu Qiong confirmed the revised cultivation techniques should be distributed across the Dao Alliance, a mysterious appearance of the Dao Venerable briefly interrupted the meeting, and the Alliance began arranging to spread the techniques.

• Liu Han Huan told True Person Ji Yan that Xiao Hua had asked about the Wumeng Mountain Range and received a jade slip showing a route to the Heavenly Alliance.
• Liu Han Huan praised the Spiritual Root selection method, and True Person Ji Yan promised support for the Chan He Sect and questioned Hong Feng and Zhang Zhi about meeting Xiao Hua.
• Zhang Zhi speculated that Xiao Hua had lost his magical power, but Gao Cheng reported that Xiao Hua had explained the Spiritual Qi aberration and cultivators' shortened lifespans as related to the body and bloodline.
• Old Man Gu Qiong examined Xiao Hua's revised Spiritual Root cultivation techniques and ordered True Person Ji Yan to distribute them to every Dao Alliance sect.
• A nine-colored figure recognized by Old Man Gu Qiong as the Dao Venerable appeared and vanished after saying, “Good,” leaving the attendees unaware of the event.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered the Eighty-one Immortal Alliances' disciples to withdraw and directed that both Spiritual Root methods be transmitted to every Alliance Meeting location for study.

Yu Zhuo Hong revealed that she still had a jade slip recording a teleportation route and received permission to join the Chongxi Sect. Old Man Gu Qiong and the other Dao Alliance leaders concluded that Zhang Xiaohua came from the Heavenly Alliance, had found an interdimensional passage, and that the Heavenly Alliance forces were searching for it in the Western Wilderness Mountain Range.

• Yu Zhuo Hong told the leaders she possessed another jade slip recording the route from Fengyan Kingdom to the Heavenly Alliance, and True Person Ji Yan ordered her transfer from the Chan He Sect to the Chongxi Sect.
• True Person Ji Yan told Yu Zhuo Hong to send Zhang Xiaohua's appearance to Jing Long Mausoleum, and she left the Alliance Meeting to carry out his instructions.
• Ancestor Ye Family and Old Man Gu Qiong examined Zhang Xiaohua's cultivation techniques and praised their intricate design, while Gu Qiong said they combined Dao Alliance, Heavenly Alliance, bloodline, and body-tempering methods.
• Old Man Gu Qiong revealed that he had found the aura of an interdimensional passage in the Western Wilderness Mountain Range, though space there had already sealed shut.
• Old Man Gu Qiong and True Person Ji Yan concluded Zhang Xiaohua had returned from another dimension and that the Heavenly Alliance disciples heading toward the Chan He Sect were likely seeking the passage in the Western Wilderness Mountain Range.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered True Person Ji Yan to investigate the remaining Heavenly Alliance disciples for information about the passage.

The Dao Alliance organized an effort to capture Zhang Xiaohua, believing he was traveling toward its Teleportation Arrays, and its leaders discussed a looming confrontation with the Heavenly Alliance. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua arrived at the Xiehong Mountain auction venue without crystals, leaving him unable to pay for a Teleportation Array.

• True Person Ji Yan issued an Earth-rank Alliance Order and assigned Dao Alliance cultivators to watch the Teleportation Arrays along Zhang Xiaohua’s presumed route.
• Old Man Gu Qiong ordered the cultivators to capture Zhang Xiaohua without killing him, even if he tried to escape.
• True Person Ji Yan asked Ancestor Ye Family, Fubo the Rogue, Yu Hongzi, and Fairy Mo Yun to stay and help guard the final Teleportation Arrays.
• True Person Ji Yan revealed that Dragon God Son, Kong Qiang, Yang Xia, True Person Jin Sheng, and Holy Mother Di Ling were also expected to act, and said they must cross the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss regardless of whether they intercepted Zhang Xiaohua.
• Xiao Hua arrived at the Xiehong Mountain auction venue with Yuehua and found himself unable to afford a Teleportation Array because he had no crystals.

Xiao Hua arrived at the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue and learned that it was run by the powerful rogue cultivator Yuhong. At the entrance, an array’s glowing fragments transformed into female phantoms, and one startled a cultivator who tried to pass through it.

• Yuehua stopped the flying boat outside the venue, and Liu Qingyu told Xiao Hua that Rogue cultivator Yuhong managed the auction.
• Xiao Hua asked Yuehua and Liu Qingyu about famous cultivation families near Xiehong Mountain, but neither knew.
• Xiao Hua followed Liu Qingyu into the valley and recognized the pentagonal entrance arrays as teleportation arrays.
• A woman disparaged Alliance Leader Wen Jie Wen’s handiwork as glowing characters appeared above the arch.
• The characters scattered into glowing fragments that formed female phantoms, and a man who tried to pass through one found a solid female cultivator before him.

Xiao Hua entered the Xiehong Mountain auction venue and noticed a familiar plum blossom mark on an attendant’s wrist, prompting him to wonder about Wen Qing and the Wen family. He then visited a puppet shop and asked whether it sold soldier puppets and general constructs.

• Wen Qing collided with an attendant at Jing Peng Hall, and the woman with him led them inside after the attendant offered to show them the shop.
• Xiao Hua recognized a plum blossom mark on the attendant’s wrist and wondered whether Wen Qing was connected to the Wen family mentioned by King Caihuang.
• Xiao Hua declined another Jing Peng Hall attendant’s offer to explain the shop and entered the lively auction venue with Liu Qingyu and the others.
• Xiao Hua followed a puppet shopkeeper’s invitation to a rock-wall shop and asked about its puppets.
• The puppet shopkeeper listed human, beast, and bird puppets, then repeated its greeting when Xiao Hua asked about soldier puppets and general constructs.

Xiao Hua visited Pang Tuojian’s puppet shop to examine its refinement methods, but Pang Tuojian refused to discuss them unless Xiao Hua intended to buy. Xiao Hua left with his companions and decided to find an auction where he could sell cultivation techniques for spirit stones.

• Pang Tuojian welcomed Xiao Hua into his shop and explained that most of its puppet-refinement jade slips were duplicates.
• Xiao Hua asked Pang Tuojian about the methods available, but Pang Tuojian demanded to know whether he planned to purchase them.
• Liu Qingyu rebuked Pang Tuojian for disrespecting Senior Zhang, and Pang Tuojian insisted that only customers with spirit stones deserved his attention.
• Xiao Hua stopped the shop attendant and led Yuehua, Nuo Yeqing, and Liu Qingyu out of the shop.
• Xiao Hua told Liu Qingyu that he needed spirit stones and asked about auctioning cultivation techniques, so Liu Qingyu offered to inquire about the auction.

Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing explored Xie Hong Mountain’s auction venue while Yuehua and Liu Qingyu went ahead to handle the jade slips. They discovered that Nuo Yeqing’s master was selling revised cultivation techniques suited to aberrant spiritual qi, drawing a crowd and the attention of two Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Yuehua asked to accompany Liu Qingyu to the auction site and left Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing to explore the valley.
• Xiao Hua browsed shops stocked with complete talismans, pills, magical artifacts, and cultivation techniques, but found little he needed to buy.
• Nuo Yeqing worried that her master had not returned or answered her communication talisman, so Xiao Hua agreed to go find him.
• Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing heard Qi Cultivation disciples excitedly discussing cheap cultivation techniques revised for aberrant spiritual qi.
• A disciple explained that two Nascent Soul cultivators had bought techniques from Nuo Yeqing’s master’s stall, prompting other cultivators to rush over.

Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing entered Rogue cultivator Yuhong’s auction venue, where Liu Qingyu and Yuehua were selling cultivation techniques to a crowd of eager Qi Refining cultivators. Rogue cultivator Yuhong arrived with Golden Core cultivators and invited the two Chan He Sect disciples to Jing Peng Hall, leaving them unsure of his intentions.

• Xiao Hua and Nuo Yeqing paid two low-grade crystal stones to enter the auction venue.
• Xiao Hua discovered Liu Qingyu selling jade slips of cultivation techniques to a large crowd, and Nuo Yeqing said her master had prepared them along the way.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong arrived with more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators and made the Qi Refining disciples clear a path to the booth.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong greeted Yuehua and Liu Qingyu, then invited them to Jing Peng Hall to explain the commotion.
• Yuehua and Liu Qingyu hesitated, uncertain why selling Qi Cultivation techniques had drawn Rogue cultivator Yuhong’s attention.

Rogue cultivator Yuhong accused Yuehua and Liu Qingyu of selling counterfeit cultivation techniques at his auction venue and ordered his disciples to seize them. As Xiao Hua stepped in to defend them, an unknown elder called from afar for everyone to wait.

• Yuhong tried to draw Yuehua and Liu Qingyu to Jing Peng Hall, but Yuehua asked to finish selling the jade slips first.
• Yuhong identified Zhou Fen as Fairy Qingyan's disciple and warned the assembled qi-refining cultivators that the techniques Yuehua and Liu Qingyu sold were counterfeit.
• Yuhong argued that the techniques could not be genuine, then shattered Liu Qingyu's jade slip and claimed his disciples had already examined the items they sold.
• Zhou Fen condemned Yuehua and Liu Qingyu, and Yuhong's Golden Core disciples ordered the two women to come to Jing Peng Hall for judgment.
• Yuehua accused Yuhong of coveting the technique, but he ordered his disciples to seize her and Liu Qingyu; Xiao Hua stepped forward, and a distant voice called for them to wait.

Elder Wen investigated the Chan He Sect’s Spiritual Root selection technique and asked Yuehua for cultivation methods to train the disciples he had selected. Rogue cultivator Yuhong declared the methods fake, leaving Elder Wen to decide whether to examine them and risk challenging Yuhong.

• Xiao Hua recognized the seven-petaled plum blossom mark on Jing'er’s wrist and wondered whether she was connected to bones he had found in Mo Ran Black Forest.
• Jing'er identified Xiao Hua and the others as the Chan He Sect disciples who had sold Spiritual Root methods, and Elder Wen questioned them about the techniques.
• Xiao Hua confirmed that the selection technique belonged to the Chan He Sect, and Yuehua sold Elder Wen four jade slips for four middle-grade spirit stones.
• Elder Wen asked Yuehua to take him to the Chan He Sect, then requested cultivation methods for disciples with Spiritual Roots.
• Yuehua offered the methods for ten middle-grade spirit stones per jade slip, but Rogue cultivator Yuhong called them fake.
• Yuehua invited Elder Wen to inspect the jade slip himself, leaving him caught between her challenge and Yuhong’s accusation.

Elder Wen examined Yuehua’s revised Qi Cultivation technique, but a message from one of his disciples prompted him to ask where the Spiritual Root selection technique came from. Xiao Hua revealed that he had created it and pressed Elder Wen to say whether the revised technique was real, while Rogue cultivator Yuhong proposed taking them to an inspection platform that Yuehua feared was a trap.

• Elder Wen accepted Yuehua’s jade slip and examined the revised Qi Cultivation technique as Rogue cultivator Yuhong challenged him to assess it.
• A disciple received a message and relayed it to Elder Wen, who then asked Yuehua where her sect master had obtained the Spiritual Root selection technique.
• Yuehua asked Elder Wen to declare whether her revised technique was real, and Xiao Hua stepped forward and claimed the Spiritual Root selection technique was his.
• Xiao Hua challenged Elder Wen to state whether the revised technique was real or fake, while Rogue cultivator Yuhong tried to learn where Xiao Hua came from.
• Rogue cultivator Yuhong proposed that they inspect the technique on a nearby platform, and Yuehua warned that he could kill them there unseen.