Recaps

Zhang Xiaohua and Meng tried to gain entry to Great Forest Temple to deliver a message to Elder Changsheng, but a suspicious monk refused to believe their identities. After Zhang Xiaohua fought off the gate guards, the temple began verifying their Incense-Passing Cult credentials.

• Meng introduced herself and Zhang Xiaohua as Incense-Passing Cult disciples, but Yuan Meng dismissed their claim and refused to take her waist token into the temple until his shift ended.
• Zhang Xiaohua attacked Yuan Meng with the Prajna Heavy Sword, bent his Crescent Spade, and triggered a signal that brought four more monks to the gate.
• Zhang Xiaohua defeated the five monks with his Misty Steps and heavy sword, leaving their weapons bent and their arms numb.
• The senior monk reconsidered after learning they were from the Incense-Passing Cult, accepted Meng's waist token, and sent a junior monk to deliver it to Chang Geng for verification.
• More people rushed toward the gate, and Zhang Xiaohua spotted the monk who had carried Meng's waist token among them.

Ren Xiaoyao faced Kong Jian, a Great Forest Temple Protector disciple who challenged his claim to represent the Incense-Passing Cult. After studying Kong Jian’s hammer technique while defending with Prajna Heavy Sword, Ren Xiaoyao counterattacked, leaving Kong Jian’s arms numb from the clash.

• Kong Jian arrived at the mountain gate and questioned Ren Xiaoyao’s claim that he was an Incense-Passing Cult Protector disciple.
• Ren Xiaoyao argued with Kong Jian over their titles and refused to explain himself again, so Kong Jian summoned his twin copper hammers to challenge him.
• Kong Jian attacked with a hammer technique that sent a mind-disrupting sound toward Ren Xiaoyao, but Ren Xiaoyao calmed himself with the Spirit Guiding Technique.
• Ren Xiaoyao blocked Kong Jian’s twin hammers with Prajna Heavy Sword, then deliberately appeared to struggle while memorizing the hammer technique.
• After declaring that it was his turn, Ren Xiaoyao struck with Prajna Heavy Sword, and Kong Jian blocked with both hammers, leaving his arms numb.

Zhang Xiaohua and Zixia reached Great Forest Temple to deliver the Incense-Passing Cult’s invitation to a Martial Arts Gathering, but the temple’s disciples initially obstructed them. After Kongchan verified their credentials and welcomed them, they met the temple elders and presented the invitation, leaving Master Chang Xing surprised and suggesting Abbess Jingyi still held a grudge.

• Kongjian attacked Zhang Xiaohua at the mountain gate, but Zhang Xiaohua knocked his bronze hammers from his hands.
• Kongchan arrived, reprimanded Kongjian for mistreating the visitors, and ordered him to report to the Disciplinary Hall.
• A disciple presented Ren Xiaoyao’s waist token, and Kongchan recognized Zixia and Zhang Xiaohua as guests of the Incense-Passing Cult.
• Kongchan escorted Zixia and Zhang Xiaohua into Great Forest Temple, where monks rang the Guest Welcoming Bell and the temple gates opened.
• Zixia told Master Chang Xing and Master Chang Geng that the Incense-Passing Cult had invited Great Forest Temple to a Martial Arts Gathering at Yi Xiang Peak.
• Zhang Xiaohua handed Master Chang Xing the jade-slip invitation, and Master Chang Xing remarked that Abbess Jingyi seemed to still bear a grudge.

Ren Xiaoyao delivered Abbess Jingyi’s jade slip to Great Forest Temple, where Master Chang Xing explained the old wager that had kept Jingyi from entering the temple. The monks prepared to test Ren as a Protector disciple, and the chapter ended with them learning the Incense-Passing Cult’s protective array had opened and its Martial Arts Gathering would take place in two months.

• Master Chang Xing explained that Great Forest Temple’s rule barred women, so Abbess Jingyi had once wagered she could enter by passing three trials and lost at the final array.
• Master Chang Xing said Jingyi had promised to send a disciple to attempt the array, and he treated Ren Xiaoyao’s visit as fulfilling that promise.
• Master Chang Geng recognized Ren as resembling a young man he had seen at Huanxi Mountain Villa years earlier.
• Master Chang Geng questioned Ren about the Martial Arts Gathering, and Ren said it would be held at Yi Xiang Peak in two months.
• Ren told the monks that the Incense-Passing Cult’s protective grand array had opened, prompting them to fear turmoil in the martial world.

Zhang Xiaohua wagered an Incense-Passing Cult cultivation manual for the chance to enter Great Forest Temple’s Library Pavilion, then stepped into the Arhat Formation. As the eighteen monks began their formation, he sensed them drawing in the surrounding Primordial Qi.

• A bone-chilling wind swept through Great Forest Temple, and Master Chang Geng sent a disciple to investigate.
• Master Chang Xing prepared the Arhat Formation and invited Zhang Xiaohua to challenge it on Abbess Jingyi’s behalf.
• Zhang Xiaohua negotiated a wager: he offered an Internal Energy Cultivation Method in exchange for permission to read a non-cultivation manual inside the Library Pavilion if he won.
• Master Chang Xing accepted the wager with restrictions, and Zhang Xiaohua entered the formation carrying Prajna.
• The eighteen monks circled Zhang Xiaohua and struck their Long Staffs against the ground, while he used the Spirit Guiding Technique to clear his mind and sensed the formation gathering Primordial Qi.

Zhang Xiaohua entered Great Forest Temple’s Arhat Formation and endured its coordinated staff attacks while concealing his Misty Sect techniques. After discovering how the monks pooled their strength, he disrupted their formation, and Master Chang Xing praised his skill as the trial ended.

• Zhang Xiaohua avoided using Misty Steps so Master Chang Geng would not recognize his ties to the Misty Sect, then blocked the monks’ powerful staff blows with Prajna.
• As the attacks continued, Zhang Xiaohua noticed that only one monk struck at a time and that the force behind the blows was gradually weakening.
• Zhang Xiaohua used his divine sense to detect the ripples transmitting strength among the eighteen monks and understood how their formation combined their power.
• Zhang Xiaohua decided to break the monks’ coordination with Prajna rather than reveal his lightness skill or wait for them to tire.
• Zhang Xiaohua intercepted the next monks before they could attack in sequence, cutting off the formation’s flow of strength and breaking the Arhat Formation.
• Master Chang Xing praised Zhang Xiaohua’s insight and composure, and Zhang Xiaohua modestly credited his success to luck.

Zhang Xiaohua rested after breaking Great Forest Temple’s Arhat Formation, then faced the second trial against Kongchan and the Demon Subduing Pestle. He discovered the artifact’s crushing weight firsthand and was forced backward by its first strike.

• Master Chang Geng rebuked the eighteen monks for underestimating Zhang Xiaohua, and they withdrew after he broke their formation.
• Master Chang Xing invited Zhang Xiaohua to rest, while Zhang Xiaohua and Meng discussed why the Cult Master had sent him to undertake the trials and wagered the cult’s Internal Energy Cultivation Method.
• Master Chang Xing and Master Chang Geng returned, and Kongchan emerged carrying the Demon Subduing Pestle for the second trial.
• Kongchan explained that the Demon Subduing Pestle felt light in his hands but became mountain-heavy when striking crooked and evil opponents.
• Kongchan attacked, and Zhang Xiaohua thrust Prajna at the pestle, but its increasing weight numbed his arm and drove him backward.

Zhang Xiaohua defeated Monk Kongchan by exploiting the Demon Subduing Pestle’s short-lived magical power and then rested before the Great Forest Temple prepared its third trial. Kongchan led Zhang Xiaohua and Meng away from the square to face the next challenge.

• Zhang Xiaohua endured Kongchan’s powerful attacks and realized the Demon Subduing Pestle’s weight depended on magical power Kongchan could not sustain.
• Zhang Xiaohua recognized similarities between Kongchan’s techniques and Kongjian’s hammer techniques, then avoided direct clashes and targeted flaws in Kongchan’s movements.
• As Kongchan weakened and the pestle grew lighter, Zhang Xiaohua repeatedly struck it with the Heaven-Shaking Strike until Kongchan conceded.
• Master Chang Xing and Master Chang Geng revealed that Abbess Jingyi had defeated the previous Protector disciple by wearing him down, and Master Chang Xing offered Zhang Xiaohua a rest before the third trial.
• After an hour, Kongchan recovered, came to fetch Zhang Xiaohua, and led him toward the third trial at another location.

Zhang Xiaohua entered the Great Forest Temple’s third trial in Forbidden Wind Valley, where a restriction sealed away everyone’s internal energy. He learned he would compete with Kong Ju in lifting the Town Suppressing Cauldron and showed that he could lift its initial weight with ease as Master Chang Geng rang the bell to increase it.

• Kong Chan led Zhang Xiaohua and Meng to Forbidden Wind Valley, where they met Masters Chang Xing and Chang Geng and the enormous Kong Ju.
• Master Chang Xing led Zhang Xiaohua and Meng through a crevice to ruins centered on a bronze cauldron, and Zhang Xiaohua discovered the platform suppressed True Qi and divine sense.
• Master Chang Xing explained that the third trial tested physical strength, and Master Chang Geng described how his bell increased the Town Suppressing Cauldron’s weight.
• Kong Ju lifted the cauldron first, then Zhang Xiaohua raised it one-handed with little effort.
• Master Chang Geng expressed surprise and rang the bell to make the cauldron heavier.

Zhang Xiaohua defeated Kong Ju in the Town Suppressing Cauldron trial and learned that Master Chang Geng recognized someone resembling Meng, raising questions about Zixia’s origins. He entered Great Forest Temple to meet Abbot Changsheng, while Meng waited outside.

• Zhang Xiaohua proposed raising the Town Suppressing Cauldron’s weight by five thousand jin at a time, and Kong Ju failed to lift it at sixteen thousand jin.
• Zhang Xiaohua lifted the cauldron and set it down gently, prompting Kong Ju to concede defeat.
• A gust lifted Meng’s veil, and Master Chang Geng reacted as though he recognized her before claiming he had seen someone resembling Zixia forty years earlier.
• Master Chang Xing suggested that Master Chang Geng report the matter to Abbot Changsheng, and Zhang Xiaohua entered Great Forest Temple while Meng waited outside.
• Zhang Xiaohua concealed his cultivation when a divine sense swept over him, then entered the room and greeted Abbot Changsheng.

Zhang Xiaohua delivered the Incense-Passing Cult’s invitation to Great Forest Temple and secured permission to learn about Senior Sister Zixia’s origins. While choosing an ordinary manual in the Library Pavilion, he discovered an old monk whose presence his divine sense could not detect.

• Master Changsheng accepted Zhang Xiaohua’s invitation and learned that the Incense-Passing Cult’s protective formation had been destroyed.
• Master Chang Geng told Zhang Xiaohua that the Abbot had approved his request concerning Senior Sister Zixia’s origins, though he needed time to recall the old secret.
• Master Chang Xing said the Abbot would attend the Martial Arts Gathering and agreed to report Zhang Xiaohua’s request to visit Master Yuantian at the Pagoda Forest.
• Master Chang Xing brought Zhang Xiaohua to the Library Pavilion, where he was permitted to read one ordinary martial arts manual but not remove or copy it.
• Zhang Xiaohua noticed an old monk sweeping beside the stairs, but his divine sense could not detect the monk; a young monk said the mysterious figure had swept there for as long as anyone could remember.

Zhang Xiaohua uncovered eighty-one hidden sets of staff techniques in Heaven-Piercing Staff Techniques, retaining three hundred and sixty moves. After being lured back to Forbidden Wind Valley, he used a sudden gale that disrupted the formation to enter a passage beneath the platform.

• Zhang Xiaohua studied Heaven-Piercing Staff Techniques with his divine sense and discovered that the manual revealed nine new sets of staff moves each day.
• Over nine days, Zhang Xiaohua saw eighty-one sets of techniques and memorized three hundred and sixty moves before returning the manual.
• A young monk thanked Zhang Xiaohua for helping him and warned him not to follow any Great Forest Temple disciple to the back mountain.
• Yuanfa told Zhang Xiaohua that Kong Jian had summoned him, and Zhang Xiaohua followed him to Forbidden Wind Valley despite the warning.
• When a violent gale disrupted the formation, Zhang Xiaohua sealed Kongjian's acupoints, left him beneath a pillar, and entered a flaw beside the Town Suppressing Cauldron.
• Zhang Xiaohua found that the space beneath the platform was covered in formations, except for a passage where cold wind continued to blow.

Zhang Xiaohua found a seven-jointed bamboo suppressing a Wind Bead, then passed through Buddhist radiance into a hidden space where a black flag and 360 magical artifacts suppressed a Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform. He left the source of the black formation and the conflict between the artifacts and the Buddhist radiance unresolved.

• Zhang Xiaohua followed the cold wind to a chamber and found a luminous, fragrant seven-jointed bamboo resembling the one in Abbot Changsheng’s painting.
• Zhang Xiaohua discovered an invisible Wind Bead beneath the bamboo, whose gusts weakened the bamboo’s lotus-flower defenses and the restriction holding it down.
• Zhang Xiaohua attacked the defenses with Fire Talismans and the Dream Chasing Sword, but Buddhist radiance continually repaired them.
• Zhang Xiaohua followed the Buddhist radiance through a strange restriction into a space where a black flag and 360 magical artifacts pressed down on a Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform.
• Zhang Xiaohua used his divine sense to examine the formation and found that it blocked his probing while allowing nine-colored Buddhist radiance to pass through.

Zhang Xiaohua escaped the black banner’s attack, explored a vast Buddhist pavilion, and collected its strange beads before returning to the trapped lotuses. He took the Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform and bamboo, then the Wind Pearl pierced his finger and opened a passage, allowing him to seize it and fly onward.

• Zhang Xiaohua replaced a hook-shaped artifact in the black formation with a rabbit talisman and took the freed artifact, but severed his divine sense when the black banner attacked it.
• Zhang Xiaohua escaped underground into a vast Buddhist pavilion, where he found sandalwood boxes filled with scriptures and Silk Brocade, along with unusual beads behind a restricted door.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned to the black-and-white space, collected the Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform, and used the golden talisman to restrain the black banner.
• Zhang Xiaohua burned through the little lotus, removed the bamboo suppressing the Wind Pearl, and stored both the bamboo and the platform separately.
• The Wind Pearl pierced Zhang Xiaohua’s finger, absorbed his blood, and released a cold gust that opened a passage above him.
• Zhang Xiaohua grabbed the Wind Pearl and flew into the newly opened passage.

Zhang Xiaohua secured the Wind Pearl, finished studying the Heaven-Piercing Staff Techniques, and received clues from Master Chang Geng about Meng’s past. Great Forest Temple prepared to send Zhang Xiaohua and Meng to pay respects to Master Yuantian before they returned to the Incense-Passing Cult.

• Zhang Xiaohua hid the Wind Pearl in a jade box, then woke young monk Kongjian and learned that even Abbot Changsheng did not know why Forbidden Wind Valley had its name.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Meng joked together outside Great Forest Temple, and Zhang Xiaohua said he had spent nine days studying a strange staff technique.
• Master Chang Geng arrived on the tenth day, and Zhang Xiaohua returned the Heaven-Piercing Staff Techniques manual after finishing it.
• Master Chang Geng gave Zhang Xiaohua a paper with places and names to help him and Meng investigate her background, while withholding Great Forest Temple’s secrets.
• Master Chang Geng invited Zhang Xiaohua and Meng to pay respects to Master Yuantian, and Zhang Xiaohua agreed to leave for the Incense-Passing Cult afterward.

Master Chang Geng explained Great Forest Temple’s Pagoda Forest, sarira, and Guiyuan Pagoda to Zhang Xiaohua and Meng. Zhang Xiaohua left convinced that the beads he had found were not sarira, though Guiyuan Pagoda’s vast collection of relics stirred his curiosity.

• Master Chang Geng suggested that Zhang Xiaohua visit Yi Xia Town before the Martial Arts Gathering, and Zhang Xiaohua apologized for misjudging him.
• Master Chang Geng led Zhang Xiaohua and Meng toward the Pagoda Forest and explained that it commemorated Great Forest Temple’s eminent monks.
• Master Chang Geng described sarira and said that the remains of the temple’s monks were enshrined in Guiyuan Pagoda, prompting Zhang Xiaohua to wonder whether the beads he possessed were sarira.
• Master Chang Geng showed them the mountain-sized Pagoda Forest, containing 99,803 pagodas, and pointed out the enormous Guiyuan Pagoda.
• Master Chang Geng explained that an ancient formation protected Guiyuan Pagoda and that only successive abbots carrying the temple’s inherited treasure could enter it to enshrine sarira.

Zhang Xiaohua and Meng left the Great Forest Temple with a Poison Scripture and continued toward Yi Xia Town to investigate Meng’s origins. Their affectionate journey was interrupted when a group of young martial artists surrounded them and demanded to know Zhang Xiaohua’s sect.

• Zhang Xiaohua and Meng exchanged healing pills with Master Chang Geng, who gave Meng a Poison Scripture after she swore not to use it against Great Forest Temple disciples.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Meng departed with Monk Kongchan, who arranged to spar with Zhang Xiaohua at the Martial Arts Gathering.
• On the road, Zhang Xiaohua read the Poison Scripture while Meng discussed the oath and teased him about their relationship.
• Meng suggested turning back from Yi Xia Town, but Zhang Xiaohua persuaded her to continue so she could uncover her origins and meet her family.
• A group of young martial artists rode up, mocked Zhang Xiaohua and Meng as inexperienced newcomers, surrounded them, and asked Zhang Xiaohua which sect he belonged to.

Zhang Xiaohua and Meng encountered disciples from Falling Blossom Island who tried to humiliate them, but a troop from the Heavenly Dragon Divine Cult interrupted them. After learning Zhang Xiaohua belonged to the increasingly famous Big Dipper Sect, the troop left and killed all six Falling Blossom Island disciples, leaving Zhang Xiaohua to condemn their tyranny.

• Falling Blossom Island disciples mocked Zhang Xiaohua's Big Dipper Sect and demanded that he kiss Meng for their amusement.
• Meng told Zhang Xiaohua to deal with the disciples, and he prepared to fight them.
• A cavalry troop from the Heavenly Dragon Divine Cult arrived, questioned the Falling Blossom Island disciples, and then asked Zhang Xiaohua about his sect.
• The troop's leader recognized the Big Dipper Sect because Nie Qianyu had invoked it when refusing an immortal's offer to take her as a disciple.
• After the troop rode on, its men surrounded and killed all six Falling Blossom Island disciples, leaving a small green banner with a dragon on it.

Zhang Xiaohua and Meng reached Yi Xia Town to investigate Hou Mingcheng, but learned that both Hou households had burned down overnight with everyone inside. They suspected someone had learned of their search and left Zhang Xiaohua fearing they were being followed by a powerful pursuer.

• Zhang Xiaohua and Meng discussed their encounter with the Heavenly Dragon Sect and continued toward Yi Xia Town.
• In Yi Xia Town, Zhang Xiaohua asked locals about Hou Mingcheng, but no one recognized the name; he and Meng planned to visit the two Hou households the next morning.
• The next morning, they heard that both Hou households had burned down overnight, then hurried to Hou Feng's ruined estate.
• A local man told Zhang Xiaohua and Meng that no one had survived either fire, and Zhang Xiaohua confirmed there were no living auras in the estate.
• Meng ruled out the Great Forest Temple and the Heavenly Dragon Sect, while Zhang Xiaohua feared someone had overheard his inquiries and followed them.

Zhang Xiaohua and Meng reached Cheng Family Village to find it burned to ashes, deepening their suspicion that someone was preventing Meng from discovering her origins. Meng chose to stop searching, and Zhang Xiaohua destroyed the list as they set off to return to the Incense-Passing Cult and Yi Xiang Peak.

• Zhang Xiaohua reassured Meng that he would cherish and protect her, and she agreed to continue searching for her family.
• Zhang Xiaohua secretly asked for directions and learned that their next destination was White Spring Mountain, where the Cheng family lived in Cheng Family Village.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Meng arrived to find Cheng Family Village burned down, with every resident and animal dead and no survivors.
• Zhang Xiaohua suspected that Great Forest Temple was hiding Meng's origins and arranging for the people on the list to be erased.
• Meng decided to stop searching, and Zhang Xiaohua destroyed the list before they rode away toward the Incense-Passing Cult.

Zhang Xiaohua and Meng encountered Qu Zhigao being attacked by Li Jing Mountain Villa over his family’s medicinal formula, while Heavenly Dragon Sect learned that its missing Saintess Xiaoya had gone to Great Forest Temple as an Incense-Passing Cult envoy. The chapter left the Saintess heading elsewhere, Di Shitian preparing to go to the Incense-Passing Cult’s Martial Arts Gathering, and Abbess Jingyi considering whether Zixia was connected to an immortal cultivator.

• Zhang Xiaohua and Meng rode toward a clash and found Qu Zhigao defending his family and medicinal formula against Li Jing Mountain Villa.
• The Villa Master’s men captured Qu Zhigao’s young son, and Qu Zhigao dropped his saber before a yellow figure sprang from a carriage at the captor.
• A woman told Di Shitian that Saintess Xiaoya had gone to Great Forest Temple as an Incense-Passing Cult envoy with Ren Xiaoyao, but seemed to have lost her memories.
• Di Shitian ordered Heavenly Dragon Sect to proceed to the Incense-Passing Cult, while Xiaoya continued in another direction after leaving Great Forest Temple.
• Abbess Xuezhen reported that Zixia and Ren Xiaoyao had sent no news from Great Forest Temple, and Abbess Jingyi wondered whether Zixia’s arrival in Mochou City was linked to the immortal cultivator.

Abbess Jingyi explained why she had kept Zixia and sent her with Ren Xiaoyao, revealing that she suspected Zixia was the Heavenly Dragon Sect Saintess's daughter and was testing Ren Xiaoyao's mysterious background. She and Abbess Xuezhen weighed the risks surrounding Ren Xiaoyao and Nie Qianyu before Jingyi asked whether Xuezhen had completed her latest assignment.

• Abbess Jingyi told Abbess Xuezhen that Zixia resembled the Heavenly Dragon Sect Saintess and that she had kept Zixia in the Incense-Passing Cult to avoid provoking the Heavenly Dragon Sect and eventually return her.
• Abbess Jingyi explained that she sent Zixia with Ren Xiaoyao to test the Heavenly Dragon Sect's response and learn more about Ren Xiaoyao, whose Big Dipper Sect background and unusual abilities remained unclear.
• Abbess Jingyi pointed out that Ren Xiaoyao had taught Nie Qianyu cultivation verses despite her inability to practice martial arts, and that the jade talisman she received made it dangerous to approach her by force.
• Abbess Jingyi said Ren Xiaoyao had returned Mo Qingshan's Grass Returning Pill, which suggested he did not understand its value and was not an Immortal Path practitioner.
• Abbess Jingyi warned that harming Ren Xiaoyao could provoke Nie Qianyu and jeopardize the Incense-Passing Cult, so she intended to use him if useful and otherwise leave him alone.
• Abbess Jingyi asked Abbess Xuezhen whether she had completed everything Jingyi had requested.

Abbess Jingyi revealed that the Incense-Passing Cult had always intended Misty Hall to become an independent Misty Sect and asked Yang Ruying to lead it. Yang Ruying declined, leaving the leadership question unresolved as Abbess Jingfan began to comment on Abbess Jingyi’s decision.

• Chen Chen asked Zhang Xiaohu about Chen Chen, and he said she was well and training in seclusion on Shixin Peak.
• Abbess Jingyi expressed concern for Yang Ruying and urged her to let go of her Hall Master duties.
• Yang Ruying said she would step aside if a suitable successor could protect Misty Hall’s disciples.
• Abbess Jingyi asked Yang Ruying to become Misty Sect Leader and revealed the cult had never intended to keep Misty Hall under its control permanently.
• Yang Ruying declined the leadership, while Gao Kunheng eagerly anticipated being chosen as Sect Leader.
• Abbess Jingfan interrupted to praise Abbess Jingyi’s decision to let Misty Hall go.

Abbess Jingyi’s followers defended her decision to release the Misty Sect and rebuild it at Misty Peak, while Ou Yan confronted her over the past and cautiously reconciled with Yang Ruying. Jingyi then asked Ou Yan to help with the rebuilding, but the chapter ended before Ou Yan answered whether she would support the plan.

• Abbess Jingfan and Peacock explained how rebuilding the Misty Sect would preserve Immortal Path balance and counter the Righteous Path Alliance.
• Abbess Jingyi said she had planned to restore the Misty Sect since Misty Peak and wanted to fulfill Yang Ruying’s wish.
• Ou Yan entered Mocu Palace and maintained that Jingyi’s explanations could not undo Ou Peng’s death or Yang Ruying’s suffering.
• Ou Yan called Yang Ruying her sister-in-law but said she had not forgiven her, and Yang Ruying accepted this.
• Abbess Jingyi said she would release the Misty Sect members and rebuild the sect at Misty Peak, then asked Ou Yan to help.
• Ou Yan questioned Jingyi’s motives, and Jingyi asked whether she was unwilling to see Ou Peng’s Misty Sect rebuilt.

Abbess Jingyi secured Ou Yan’s agreement to rebuild the Misty Sect under the Incense-Passing Cult’s influence and demanded the sect cooperate whenever the Cult needed a mysterious Misty Sect item. She then named Zhang Xiaohu as the new Sect Leader through a proposed marriage to Ou Yan, while Gao Kunheng and Aunt Qin were appointed Deputy Sect Leaders and preparations began for their departure.

• Ou Yan agreed to support rebuilding the Misty Sect after Abbess Jingyi explained that its disciples would be supplied by the Incense-Passing Cult and Ming Qing would serve as Deputy Sect Leader.
• Abbess Jingyi made Ou Yan agree that the rebuilt Misty Sect would secretly depend on the Incense-Passing Cult and provide a mysterious item whenever the Cult needed it.
• Abbess Jingyi proposed that Ou Yan marry Zhang Xiaohu so he could become the Misty Sect Sect Leader, surprising Ou Yan, Zhang Xiaohu, and the others.
• Abbess Jingyi appointed Gao Kunheng as Zhang Xiaohu’s Deputy Sect Leader and named Aunt Qin as another Deputy Sect Leader, ordering them to settle affairs at Shixin Peak and gather at Jinghai Lake in three days.
• Gao Kunheng asked about Hall Master Yang and Gang Leader Zhang, and Abbess Jingyi said Hall Master Yang would return to Yi Xiang Peak while Zhang Xiaohu had not yet made his preparations.