Recaps

Zhang Xiaohu weighed the possibility that Zhang Xiaohua was the mysterious immortal, then faced a dispute after an Incense-Passing Cult disciple attacked a Mingcui Hall woman. The chapter ended with Gao Kunheng arguing that Wang Tong should not be punished under Misty Sect rules that had not yet been restored.

• Changge and Chen Chen discussed whether Zhang Xiaohua could be the immortal, while Zhang Xiaohu doubted the connection and said he could not leave the ruined sect to visit his family.
• Aunt Qin brought Du Feng and the deputy sect leaders to the Council Hall to complain about Incense-Passing Cult disciples harassing Mingcui Hall women.
• Du Feng reported that Wang Tong had tried to assault a Mingcui Hall disciple, wounded a Misty Sect disciple who intervened, and was rescued by fellow cult disciples.
• Zhang Xiaohu demanded Wang Tong's arrest, but Ming Qing proposed a lesser punishment and suggested the woman marry him, citing Wang Tong's service and ignorance of Misty Sect rules.
• Zhang Xiaohu invoked the Misty Sect rule that those who molest female disciples should be killed, while Ming Qing argued that Wang Tong had not known the rule.
• Gao Kunheng proposed restoring the Disciplinary Hall and teaching the rules, but argued that Wang Tong could not be punished under rules that had not yet been reinstated.

Zhang Xiaohu appointed Ding Chao and Du Feng as deputy hall masters while arguing that the Misty Sect needed rules and cooperation between its factions. He insisted that Wang Tong would be punished in seven days, then announced he would enter secluded cultivation during that time.

• Zhang Xiaohu appointed Ding Chao Deputy Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall and charged him with restoring discipline.
• Zhang Xiaohu appointed Du Feng Deputy Hall Master of the Divine Mechanism Hall, rejecting Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng's objections about favoring Misty Sect disciples.
• Zhang Xiaohu argued that he had to punish Wang Tong to answer for the humiliation of the Mingcui Hall junior sisters and the Misty Sect disciples.
• Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng challenged Zhang Xiaohu's authority to handle Wang Tong, but Zhang Xiaohu declared he would act personally.
• Zhang Xiaohu set Wang Tong's punishment for seven days later and announced that he would enter secluded cultivation during that period.

Zhang Xiaohu upheld the Misty Sect disciples’ interests despite the risks and decided to leave Misty Manor with Changge and Chen Chen for Guo Village. Two days later, Zhang Xiaohua sensed their arrival and prepared his family to welcome them.

• Zhang Xiaohu told Aunt Qin, Du Feng, and Ding Chao that protecting the Misty Sect disciples mattered more to him than holding the Great Sect Leader position, and they pledged to follow him.
• Zhang Xiaohu told Changge and Chen Chen he would take them to Guo Village; Changge accepted despite believing the journey might be a farewell, and Chen Chen agreed to go too.
• That night, Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, and Chen Chen secretly left Misty Manor.
• Two days later, Zhang Xiaohua sensed someone approaching Guo Village and told Ji Xiaohua to prepare scallion pancakes and river shrimp.
• Zhang Xiaohua told Guo Sufi that Zhang Xiaohu would arrive around noon with two women, prompting her to hurry off to prepare for their arrival.

Zhang Xiaohu returned to Guo Village with Changge and Chen Chen, where his family welcomed them and the two women declared themselves his future daughters-in-law. After Chen Chen recognized the significance of Zhang Cai’s gift, the family headed home, and Zhang Xiaohu learned that Zhang Xiaohua had predicted his return.

• Zhang Xiaohu reached Guo Village and was surprised to find his family waiting to welcome him.
• Zhang Xiaolong embraced Zhang Xiaohu, and Guo Sufi tearfully greeted her son after years apart.
• Changge and Chen Chen called Guo Sufi and Zhang Cai Mother and Father, prompting Zhang Xiaohua to explain that formal marriage customs still needed to be followed.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Cai the martial arts manual “flowing water” to present as a betrothal gift, and Chen Chen recognized its great value.
• Liu Qian urged the family inside as villagers gathered to watch Zhang Xiaohu arrive with the two women.
• At home, Zhang Xiaohu learned that Zhang Xiaohua had predicted his return and that Guo Sufi had prepared his favorite flatbread rolls with river shrimp.

Zhang Xiaohua reunited with his family and revealed that he had taken Ji Xiaohua and Zhang Bairen as disciples of the Big Dipper Sect. As the family discussed moving to Huanxi Mountain Villa for safety, Zhang Xiaohua demonstrated his transformations and ended by appearing as a second Zhang Xiaohu.

• Liu Qian and Guo Sufi both suspected that Changge and Chen Chen had a personal reason for calling Zhang Cai and Guo Sufi their parents, and Zhang Xiaohua agreed to look into it.
• Zhang Xiaohua introduced Ji Xiaohua as his direct disciple and Zhang Bairen as the Big Dipper Sect’s founding disciple.
• At the family meal, Zhang Xiaohu grew emotional and appeared to speak as if preparing for his death, but Cloud Mist Tea dispelled his drunkenness.
• Zhang Xiaolong proposed moving the family from Guo Village to Huanxi Mountain Villa, but Zhang Xiaohu hesitated and Zhang Xiaohua suspected he was hiding something.
• Zhang Xiaohua explained that he had killed the West Cui Mountain bandits, including Ban Fugui and four consecrated elders, and showed the family that he could transform into a handsome man.
• At Changge and Chen Chen’s request, Zhang Xiaohua transformed into Zhang Xiaohu, leaving two identical Zhang Xiaohus before the stunned family.

Zhang Xiaohua reassured Zhang Xiaohu and his companions that he would help with the Misty Sect’s dangers, then secretly strengthened Zhang Xiaohu’s cultivation with a Meridian Nourishing Pill. The chapter left Zhang Xiaohua preparing to give his second brother another powerful gift.

• Liu Qian and Mr. Liu explained that Zhang Xiaohua’s disguise had fooled them, but his unchanged clothes gave him away.
• Changge and Chen Chen revealed that they would stand by Zhang Xiaohu even in death, and Zhang Xiaohua promised to help him face his enemies while letting him solve what he could himself.
• Zhang Xiaohu said he planned to return to the Misty Sect by the seventh day, while Zhang Xiaohua promised to deal with Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng and hinted at a plan for the Incense-Passing Cult.
• Zhang Xiaohua took Zhang Xiaohu aside and helped him refine a Meridian Nourishing Pill while circulating the Misty Divine Art and Su Huan Cultivation Method.
• Zhang Xiaohu found his cultivation about forty percent stronger than before his Dantian was pierced, and Zhang Xiaohua took out another bottle and prepared to give him a further gift.

Zhang Xiaohua helped Zhang Xiaohu take a Qi Boosting Pill, whose powerful medicine Zhang Xiaohu slowly refined through the night as starlight repaired his damaged meridians. Meanwhile, a five-colored radiance appeared over Yao Mountain, and Shuiyunjian disciples recognized it as the immortal estate Sect Leader Bai had sought; by morning, Zhang Xiaohu had gained about twenty-five years of cultivation, with much of the pill’s power still to refine.

• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu the Qi Boosting Pill and used the Su Huan Cultivation Method to help him refine its medicinal power.
• Zhang Xiaohua fell asleep, and starlight descended to protect the brothers while Zhang Xiaohu continued cultivating through the night.
• Zhang Xiaohu’s meridians tore under the pill’s force, but a cool current from the starlight repaired them as he kept refining the medicine.
• A five-colored radiance appeared above Yao Mountain, and Shuiyunjian disciples identified it as the immortal estate Sect Leader Bai had been seeking and sent word to him.
• Zhang Xiaohua awoke and gathered the unrefined medicinal power in Zhang Xiaohu’s body for him to refine later.
• Zhang Xiaohu estimated that he had gained about twenty-five years of cultivation, and Zhang Xiaohua predicted he could reach around eighty years after refining the rest.

Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu a martial cultivation manual and helped him prepare to move his family from Guo Village to Pingyang City, where the family would stay at Huanxi Mountain Villa. Zhang Xiaohu left for Pingyang City while Zhang Xiaohua remained behind to help pack and manage the affairs of the Misty Sect.

• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu the male cultivation manual "Breaking Saber Force" and told him he could cultivate it once his inner strength was sufficient.
• Zhang Xiaohu revealed that his inner strength had risen to about Changge's level, and Chen Chen thanked Zhang Xiaohua for the Meridian Nourishing Pill.
• Zhang Xiaohu agreed that his parents should move to Huanxi Mountain Villa, while Zhang Xiaohua said he would go to Misty Manor to deal with the former Incense-Passing Cult disciples.
• Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, and Chen Chen said farewell and rode toward Pingyang City, leaving Zhang Xiaohua to help Zhang Xiaolong pack.
• The Zhang family began preparing to leave Guo Village, while Zhang Xiaohua considered the village spring's Primordial Qi a danger that moving away would help them escape.

Zhang Xiaohu and his companions saw a brilliant radiance near Mount Yao and resolved to investigate it as a possible Immortal Path opportunity. At Shuiyunjian, Bai Yanqiu interrogated Li Xu about an immortal who had emptied the sect’s treasures, while Liang Cangxu urged her to investigate why the visitor claimed to be reclaiming his own things.

• Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, and Chen Chen praised Zhang Xiaohua’s abilities as they rode toward Pingyang City.
• Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, and Chen Chen saw seven-colored light in the direction of Mount Yao and decided to send disciples there after returning to Misty Manor.
• Bai Yanqiu demanded that Li Xu explain how an immortal had broken Shuiyunjian’s protective formation and asked what had happened to Peng Yeyu, Ren Xiaoyao, and Zixia.
• Bai Yanqiu recalled that the visitor had taken Shuiyunjian’s jade materials, Haotian Mirror, pill furnaces, and Water Mist Pearls, but left its inherited cultivation techniques behind.
• Bai Yanqiu speculated that Peng Yeyu might have released Zixia because he recognized her as the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s Holy Maiden, but could not explain his disappearance.
• Liang Cangxu urged Bai Yanqiu to trace the immortal’s claim that he was taking back his own things, but she replied that she knew of no connection between Shuiyunjian’s treasures and anyone else.

Bai Yanqiu ordered Shuiyunjian to seek an immortal estate on Mount Yao while preparing to watch the conflict between the Incense-Passing Cult and the Righteous Path Alliance. At Misty Manor, Zhang Xiaohu emerged from seven days of secluded cultivation, signed a life-and-death contract with Wang Tong, and went to confront him.

• Bai Yanqiu ordered Li Xu to monitor the Heavenly Dragon Sect for news of Peng Yeyu and prepare to expand Shuiyunjian's influence.
• Bai Yanqiu learned that Shuiyunjian had found no trace of the immortal estate, then decided to lead the sect's elite to Mount Yao.
• Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng discussed using Wang Tong to humble Zhang Xiaohu, but Du Feng and Ding Chao barred them from approaching Zhang Xiaohu during his seclusion.
• Zhang Xiaohu emerged after seven days, agreed to seize Wang Tong, and signed a life-and-death contract Gao Kunheng presented.
• Zhang Xiaohu headed to Medicine Hall, used a decoy to conceal his route, and found Wang Tong waiting in a courtyard with a sword.

Zhang Xiaohu defeated Wang Tong and ordered the other Wuming Hall disciples to surrender, then the scene shifted to the Misty Manor plaza as Li Jian and Wen Wenhai returned. Aunt Qin sent Ding Chao to welcome them while she stayed behind to restrain Ming Qing’s faction, and the chapter ended with the returning group waiting beneath the manor’s archway for Zhang Xiaohu.

• Zhang Xiaohu rejected Wang Tong’s excuses and demanded that he surrender, but Wang Tong invoked their life-and-death agreement and revealed that other disciples who had injured Misty Sect members were hiding nearby.
• Wang Tong and Zhang Xiaohu fought, and Zhang Xiaohu seized Wang Tong’s sword, struck his dantian, and carried him toward the plaza while ordering the other disciples to admit their crimes.
• The remaining disciples followed Zhang Xiaohu, realizing he had defeated Wang Tong and given them a chance to submit.
• A Misty Sect disciple reported to Aunt Qin and Ming Qing that Wen Wenhai’s group and Li Jian’s group had returned together; Ming Qing left the matter to Aunt Qin.
• Aunt Qin sent Ding Chao and several disciples to welcome Li Jian and Wen Wenhai while she stayed at the plaza to prevent Ming Qing’s faction from acting.
• Li Jian, Liu Qingyang, Wen Wenhai, and the others waited beneath Misty Manor’s archway, and Li Jian remarked on his return while Liu Qingyang asked why Zhang Xiaohu had not welcomed them.

Zhang Xiaohu welcomed Li Jian and the returning Misty Sect elders, then faced the Incense-Passing Cult’s interference by publicly enforcing the sect’s rules. After Wang Tong exposed Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng’s plot, Zhang Xiaohu executed him and ordered the other offenders punished.

• Li Jian and the returning Misty Sect elders entered Misty Manor, where the disciples greeted them with excitement.
• Zhang Xiaohu arrived carrying Wang Tong and addressed the disciples, apologizing for failing to establish the Law Enforcement Hall sooner.
• Zhang Xiaohu questioned Wang Tong, who admitted that Gao Kunheng and Ming Qing had instructed him to attack Zhang Xiaohu during their match.
• Zhang Xiaohu killed Wang Tong under the sect rules, while Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng denied Wang Tong’s accusations.
• Zhang Xiaohu ordered Ding Chao to punish the other disciples involved in the fight.

After Zhang Xiaohu settled the dispute with the Incense-Passing Cult deputies, Zhang Xiaohua explored the Misty Sect’s Forbidden Area and overcame its attack on his divine sense. He entered a hidden mountain passage and discovered a vast jade square, leaving him astonished by the Misty Sect’s concealed wealth.

• Zhang Xiaohu dismissed Wang Tong’s followers, while Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng declined to accompany him to meet Li Jian and the other former Misty Sect elders.
• Li Jian and the returning disciples saluted Zhang Xiaohu as their Great Sect Leader, and Zhang Xiaohu led them into the Council Hall.
• Zhang Xiaohua watched the gathering from the Medicine Hall, then decided to explore the Misty Sect’s Forbidden Area before returning to Guo Village.
• Zhang Xiaohua entered the white-mist restriction, resisted its attack on his divine sense with the Dragon-Tiger Talismans, and followed its passage to a white jade gate.
• Zhang Xiaohua opened the gate, walked down a brightly lit mountain passage, and reached an enormous jade square.

Zhang Xiaohua explored Misty Palace and discovered the Misty Sect’s underground pill-refining chambers and a hidden collection of Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnaces. After seven furnaces fused and joined six more in a ladle formation, they summoned Primordial Qi and absorbed seven-colored radiance, leaving Zhang Xiaohua to discover what the furnaces had become.

• Zhang Xiaohua entered Misty Palace, examined its silent halls, and chose a corridor that led down to the Misty Sect’s pill-refining chambers.
• Zhang Xiaohua tested an earthfire and used Abbess Jinggang’s incantations to transform it into a powerful cold fire.
• Zhang Xiaohua’s Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace reacted to a hidden space behind a stone wall and led him to six matching furnaces.
• The seven furnaces fused into one, and Zhang Xiaohua placed six more furnaces in the positions the first six had occupied.
• The seven furnaces formed a ladle-shaped formation, released Primordial Qi through the earth, and absorbed seven streams of seven-colored radiance before falling silent.

Zhang Xiaohua discovered a hidden route to the Misty Sect’s Inheritance Pavilion and found its entrance protected by a restriction that the square token could dispel. After paying respects to Yang Haoya and resolving to leave the sect’s inheritance to Zhang Xiaohu, he reconsidered and went upstairs to investigate how his brother might reach it.

• Zhang Xiaohua searched the alchemy chambers, found them empty, and entered a white jade hall matching the halls he had seen at Yi Xiang Peak.
• Zhang Xiaohua matched a square token from Fuqiu Peak’s Qiankun Hall to an indentation in a jade pillar, revealing stairs to a hidden passage.
• Zhang Xiaohua used the token to neutralize the Inheritance Pavilion’s protective attack and entered the building.
• Zhang Xiaohua bowed before Yang Haoya’s portrait, promised to support the Misty Sect and Zhang Xiaohu, and initially decided not to inspect the upper floors.
• Zhang Xiaohua realized Zhang Xiaohu might not be able to enter the forbidden ground alone, so he turned back and climbed to the second floor.

Zhang Xiaohua explored the Misty Sect’s Inheritance Pavilion, discovered a Purple Phoenix Hairpin jade slip and the depleted Spirit Gathering Formation, then found a way out of the underground palace. He emerged near the Misty Sect’s Council Hall, where Zhang Xiaohu was hosting Li Jian and Liu Qingyang.

• Zhang Xiaohua searched the Inheritance Pavilion’s second floor, memorized the formation restrictions, and found the method for breaking them.
• Zhang Xiaohua discovered a Purple Phoenix Hairpin-shaped jade slip containing detailed instructions for using the hairpins and put it away.
• Zhang Xiaohua found the third floor’s depleted Spirit Gathering Formation and memorized its layout.
• Zhang Xiaohua descended from the pavilion, retrieved an ingot-shaped jade talisman from the alchemy chamber, and used it to pass through the restriction and illusion.
• Zhang Xiaohua followed a mountain path through Misty Peak and discovered Zhang Xiaohu welcoming Li Jian and Liu Qingyang at the Council Hall.

Zhang Xiaohu celebrated the Misty Sect’s restoration with its elders while Zhang Xiaohua quietly returned to Guo Village and later brought his family to Misty Manor. The chapter ended with Ou Yan humbly explaining that Huanxi Mountain Villa should now belong under Changge’s management.

• At the celebration, Zhang Xiaohu and the elders worried that Incense-Passing Cult disciples might discover the martial ancestors had recovered their martial arts, but agreed the Misty Sect could not risk a conflict yet.
• Du Feng reported that seven-colored radiance had appeared over Misty Peak, and Zhang Xiaohu presented it to the gathering as an auspicious sign of the sect’s restoration.
• Zhang Xiaohua watched Zhang Xiaohu lead the celebration, then left Misty Peak and flew toward Guo Village.
• Several days later, Zhang Xiaohua traveled with Zhang Xiaolong, Zhang Cai, Guo Sufi, Ji Xiaohua, and the others toward Pingyang City and Misty Manor.
• Zhang Xiaohua brought his family into Misty Manor, where Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, Chen Chen, Ou Yan, and Qiutong awaited them.
• Ou Yan welcomed Zhang Cai and Guo Sufi and explained that Huanxi Mountain Villa belonged to the Misty Sect and should now be managed by Changge.

Ou Yan welcomed Zhang Xiaohua’s family to Huanxi Mountain Villa, where they settled into a prepared courtyard. Zhang Xiaohua then revealed that he had found the Misty Sect’s hidden inheritance and offered to take Zhang Xiaohu to see it.

• Ou Yan greeted Zhang Xiaohua’s family, invited them to stay, and showed them their new courtyard.
• Guo Sufi praised Ou Yan, and Zhang Xiaohua helped his family move their belongings into the courtyard.
• Zhang Xiaohua placed a Qi Stone in the water vat and told Ji Xiaohua to leave it there.
• Zhang Xiaohua told Zhang Xiaohu that he had found Misty Palace and the Inheritance Pavilion in the Misty Sect’s Forbidden Area.
• Zhang Xiaohu asked to see the inheritance, and Zhang Xiaohua agreed to take him to the small door behind Misty Manor’s Council Hall.

Zhang Xiaohua brought Zhang Xiaohu into the hidden Misty Sect inheritance grounds and gave him the tokens needed to enter them. When Zhang Xiaohu paid respects to patriarch Yang Haoya in the Inheritance Pavilion, Yang Haoya’s Primordial Spirit projection appeared and asked about the Misty Sect’s fate.

• Zhang Xiaohua teased Zhang Xiaohu before offering to show him the hidden grounds, while Zhang Cai and Mr. Liu kept Zhang Xiaolong behind to serve them tea.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu an emerald-green jade talisman to pass the restriction, then guided him into the vast jade plaza and Misty Palace.
• At the Inheritance Pavilion, Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu a four-cornered token and warned him not to touch the second-floor inheritance until he could cultivate it.
• Zhang Xiaohu lit the nine incense sticks before Yang Haoya’s portrait and completed nine bows as the incense smoke gathered and entered the portrait.
• Yang Haoya’s Primordial Spirit projection appeared, learned that Zhang Xiaohu was the current Great Gang Leader, and said he feared the Misty Sect had perished during the long absence of an heir to receive its inheritance.

Yang Haoya revealed the Misty Sect’s hidden connection to an ancient Immortal Mansion and asked Zhang Xiaohu to deliver his regret to Yue Mingxin. After Yang Haoya vanished, his last true essence transformed Zhang Xiaohu’s inner force into Yin and Yang True Qi, leaving him unable to move the qi mass in his dantian.

• Yang Haoya told Zhang Xiaohu about the Misty Sect’s inheritance, its ties to the Incense-Passing Cult and Divine Blade Sect, and the Immortal Mansion near Yaoshan beside Lu Town.
• Yang Haoya warned Zhang Xiaohu not to endanger the Misty Sect’s inheritance over the Immortal Mansion and explained that it might be suppressing something.
• Yang Haoya asked Zhang Xiaohu to visit Yue Mingxin beneath Frowning Tower in Mochou City and tell her that he regretted it.
• Yang Haoya’s projection vanished, and his final true essence entered Zhang Xiaohu’s dantian, protecting its black-and-white qi mass and refining the medicines there into true qi.
• The new true qi transformed Zhang Xiaohu’s Su Huan Cultivation Method and Misty Divine Art energy into Yin and Yang True Qi.
• Zhang Xiaohu tried to circulate the qi mass but found that it would not move.

Zhang Xiaohua helped Zhang Xiaohu understand the changes to his Dantian after Yang Haoya bestowed his true essence, then found him two introductory Immortal cultivation methods. Zhang Xiaohu left the Inheritance Pavilion excited but learned its Spirit Gathering Formation could not currently be used.

• Zhang Xiaohu told Zhang Xiaohua that Yang Haoya had protected his Dantian with true essence, leaving him unable to use his former internal energy normally.
• Zhang Xiaohua showed Zhang Xiaohu how to reverse their method so his new True Qi could imitate internal energy, and explained that he could still use his martial arts and Dragon Soaring Cultivation Method.
• Zhang Xiaohua took Zhang Xiaohu's token into the Inheritance Pavilion and returned with the Kun Peng Transformation and Ni Shan Cultivation Method, explaining why basic methods suited him.
• Zhang Xiaohua began reading the jade slips with divine sense while Zhang Xiaohu went back into the Pavilion to inspect its upper floors.
• Zhang Xiaohu asked about the Spirit Gathering Formation on the third floor, and Zhang Xiaohua explained that it could not currently be used; Zhang Xiaohu accepted that it might work when Primordial Qi recovered.

Zhang Xiaohua told Zhang Xiaohu he planned to claim the immortal estate for the Big Dipper Sect, then began refining a Soul-Snaring Pill in the hidden alchemy room. He later returned to Huanxi Mountain Villa and found Ou Yan treating his family with unusual warmth, leaving him puzzled by her closeness to Guo Sufi.

• Zhang Xiaohua explained that Shuiyunjian and Bai Yanqiu likely knew about the immortal estate and urged Zhang Xiaohu to focus on Misty Sect affairs.
• Zhang Xiaohua took the six pill furnaces with Zhang Xiaohu's permission, and Zhang Xiaohu secured the Misty Sect's jade talisman and token.
• After Zhang Xiaohu left, Zhang Xiaohua studied Abbess Jinggang's jade slip and Master Chang Geng's Poison Scripture, then began refining a Soul-Snaring Pill in the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace.
• Zhang Xiaohua used green and then white earth fire to process the herbs, observing that the furnace kept its temperature even as the flames turned cold.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned to Huanxi Mountain Villa and saw Ou Yan hosting Zhang Cai, Mr. Liu, Guo Sufi, and Zhang Xiaolong with a lavish meal.
• Ou Yan asked Guo Sufi to call her by name and said she wished to acknowledge her as a godmother, leaving Zhang Xiaohua baffled by her sudden intimacy.

Zhang Xiaohua realized Ou Yan was worried that Zhang Xiaohu’s wives might resent her and that she would lose her place at Huanxi Mountain Villa. After Zhang Xiaohu’s family discussed the misunderstanding and the events behind his arranged marriage, Zhang Xiaohua gathered Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, and Chen Chen to tell them that Zhang Xiaohu had begun cultivating the immortal Dao.

• Zhang Xiaohua noticed Ou Yan’s deference toward his mother and suspected she had feelings for Zhang Xiaohu, then warned his brother to explain the immortal Dao methods to Changge and Chen Chen.
• Zhang Xiaohu arrived with Changge and Chen Chen, and Ou Yan soon left the family gathering, saying she did not want to intrude on their reunion.
• Ou Yan told Qiutong that Huanxi Mountain Villa would likely pass to Changge and Chen Chen and worried that Changge’s feelings about Abbess Jingyi’s arranged marriage could make her unwelcome.
• Zhang Xiaohua overheard Ou Yan’s worries and told the family about them, prompting Changge to explain what had happened at Yi Xiang Peak and how Zhang Xiaohu’s arranged marriage came about.
• After Zhang Xiaohu reassured the family that Zhang Xiaohua had cured his poison, Zhang Xiaohua called Zhang Xiaohu, Changge, and Chen Chen to his room and revealed that Zhang Xiaohu had entered the immortal Dao.

Zhang Xiaohua helped Zhang Xiaohu prepare to cultivate the Immortal Path and asked him to bring Qu Zhigao and Jing'er to safety, while the Righteous Path Alliance debated how to respond to the Misty Sect's return. Zhang San revealed that he had already sent warnings and reinforcements, then hinted that Chai had received important news.

• Zhang Xiaohu told Changge and Chen Chen that he had stepped onto the Immortal Path, and Zhang Xiaohua advised him to focus on the Breaking Saber Force and true qi before studying the copied cultivation methods.
• Zhang Xiaohua asked Zhang Xiaohu to bring Qu Zhigao and Jing'er from Qiu Long Mountain to the Misty Sect, saying he planned to take Jing'er as his disciple.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu wondered why the Righteous Path Alliance had not attacked, and Zhang Xiaohua spent the following days teaching Zhang Xiaohu and refining Soul-Snaring Pills.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Mi and Deputy Alliance Leader You urged Zhang San to attack the Misty Sect, while Deputy Alliance Leader Chai objected to You Zhanfei's accusations.
• Zhang San said he had already warned Deputy Alliance Leader Ban and the Azure Flame Token, ordered them to preserve the alliance's strength, and sent the four consecrated elders to the Azure Flame Token.
• Zhang San said Chai had just received news and invited the hall to hear it.

Alliance Leader Zhang learned that Misty Sect forces had destroyed the Righteous Path Alliance’s forces at Misty Peak and other locations, then rallied the alliance to pursue a heavenly treasure appearing near Pingyang City. Meanwhile, Bai Yanqiu learned that Shuiyunjian was moving to claim the immortal estate and ordered powerful elders to emerge.

• Deputy Alliance Leader Chai reported that Misty Sect disciples led by Zhang Xiaohu had surprised the Righteous Path Alliance, while an Immortal Path expert killed Deputy Alliance Leader Ban and the Four Great Consecrated Elders.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Chai reported that the alliance’s forces at Evil Tiger Mountain Villa and West Cui Mountain had also been wiped out, and Alliance Leader Zhang warned Deputy Alliance Leader You against disloyalty.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Chai revealed that a messenger had seen seven-colored light southwest of Pingyang City, and Alliance Leader Zhang decided to lead the alliance’s elite forces to seek the presumed Immortal Path treasure.
• Alliance Leader Zhang whispered a plan to Deputy Alliance Leader Mi concerning the Misty Sect and assigned Deputy Alliance Leader You to guard Righteous Path Peak.
• Bai Yanqiu discussed the immortal estate with Li Xu, learned that the Misty Sect Remnants had retaken Misty Manor, and ordered disciples to invite several old immortals from the mountains.