Recaps

Zhang Xiaohua entrusted Qu Zhigao, Li Jinfeng, and their carriages to Lu Da, Ke Nanli, and Yuan Changqing before leaving for Yaoshan. There, a strange surge of Primordial Qi led Bai Yanqiu and Shuiyunjian’s True Persons to suspect that Yaoshan itself was the Immortal Manor, prompting them to consider clearing the mountain of rival sects.

• Zhang Xiaohua reunited Qu Zhigao and Li Jinfeng with Lu Da and Ke Nanli, who agreed to escort the convoy to Huanxi Mountain Villa.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Li Jinfeng jade talismans, entrusted the convoy to Yuan Changqing, and left alone for Yaoshan.
• A strange buzzing and a powerful wave of air swept over Yaoshan, stirring the gathered searchers and drawing more minor sects past the blockade.
• Bai Yanqiu and Shuiyunjian’s three True Persons sensed the surge of Primordial Qi and discussed the Immortal Manor’s power.
• Bai Yanqiu and the True Persons concluded that Yaoshan might itself be the Immortal Manor, then True Person Haofeng proposed clearing the mountain of rival disciples.

Alliance Leader Zhang and Abbess Jingyi weighed their plans for the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion while discussing the Misty Sect and the unexpected influence of Zhang Xiaohu. A sudden eruption of Primordial Qi startled both camps, leaving them to investigate the mountain.

• Alliance Leader Zhang erupted in anger over the Righteous Path Alliance’s losses, blamed the Incense-Passing Cult for the Immortal Path expert’s attacks, and resolved to destroy the Misty Sect after the search for the treasure.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Yan reported that the Righteous Path Alliance had found nothing on Yao Mountain and that Shuiyunjian, Great Forest Temple, and the Incense-Passing Cult had sent no one up the mountain.
• Alliance Leader Zhang ordered his disciples to search carefully, then sent more men to investigate when Yao Mountain hummed and released a surge of Primordial Qi.
• Abbess Jingyi and her followers discussed Shuiyunjian’s interest in the Immortal Mansion and admitted that Zhang Xiaohu had exceeded their expectations by consolidating the Misty Sect.
• Abbess Xuezhen revealed that she had sent people to Misty Manor to gather intelligence, and Abbess Jingyi welcomed the news.
• Another surge of Primordial Qi struck, and Abbess Jingyi, Shuqing, and Shujie flew out of the wooden house.

Abbess Jingyi and the Incense-Passing Cult celebrated the Primordial Qi erupting beneath Yao Mountain and resolved to seize its Immortal Mansion. News that Zhang Xiaohu might have attained Immortal cultivation and subdued powerful Incense-Passing Cult and Righteous Path Alliance figures left Abbess Jingyi deeply perplexed.

• Abbess Xuezhen learned from an outer disciple that the Misty Sect had undergone a great change and ordered further investigation.
• Shuqing and Shujie absorbed the Primordial Qi, then told Abbess Jingyi that the Incense-Passing Cult had to claim the Immortal Mansion.
• Abbess Xuezhen reported that Zhang Xiaohu supposedly possessed Immortal cultivation, but Abbess Jingyi and Chen Chen doubted the claim.
• Junior Sister Yan suggested that Immortal experts connected to the Misty Sect might have helped Zhang Xiaohu, while Peacock asked where the recently seen Immortal cultivators had come from.
• Abbess Jingyi ordered Ming Qing and Gao Kunheng brought to her for questioning and learned that they, Wang Lun, and Liu Bin reportedly obeyed Zhang Xiaohu.
• Abbess Jingyi wondered how Zhang Xiaohu could have subdued Ming Qing and his more than two thousand Wuming Hall disciples within a few months.

Bai Yanqiu proposed that the Four Immortal Path Sects take control of the Yao Mountain treasure search and impose order on the mountain. While Abbess Jingyi was away, Changge authorized the Incense-Passing Cult to prepare to seize and detain sect disciples who remained on its side of the mountain.

• Abbess Jingyi sent Peacock to hear Bai Yanqiu's proposal and went alone toward Great Forest Temple's camp.
• Bai Yanqiu urged the Four Immortal Path Sects to clear ordinary Martial Way practitioners from Yao Mountain, search the mountain by sections, and form a law-enforcement team.
• Bai Yanqiu told Liang Cangxu to organize Shuiyunjian's elites and drive people away from the southern foothills.
• Changge reported Bai Yanqiu's plan to Abbess Xuezhen, who agreed that the law-enforcement proposal could be considered.
• With Abbess Jingyi still absent, Changge ordered the outer disciples to gather and, after two hours, capture and send remaining sect disciples from the western side to Shuiyunjian.

Changge and Abbess Jingyi realized Shuiyunjian might have occupied Yaoshan’s southern side to find the entrance to the immortal estate, then ordered the remaining sect disciples cleared from the mountain by force. As the slaughter began, the dead were mysteriously drained of their blood, while the sects below sought help from Great Forest Temple.

• Abbess Xuezhen arranged for the Incense-Passing Cult to help Shuiyunjian clear Yaoshan, and Shuiyunjian issued warnings from all four sides demanding the remaining disciples leave.
• Changge and Abbess Jingyi suspected Shuiyunjian had taken the southern side because the entrance to the immortal estate might lie there, so Abbess Jingyi sent disciples to search that area.
• After the warnings expired, Abbess Jingyi ordered the Incense-Passing Cult to kill those who remained, and the four sects’ disciples charged up Yaoshan.
• Shuiyunjian disciples killed a Qionghua Island disciple despite his surrender, and his blood seeped into the earth as his corpse dried; the other slain disciples underwent the same change.
• The sects below Yaoshan realized the four sects would show no mercy and urged one another to seek Elder Changsheng’s help at Great Forest Temple.

As Shuiyunjian and the other factions cleared Mount Yao, Great Forest Temple tried to persuade the remaining disciples to leave and shielded those who fled to the northern side. After the monks began forcibly driving them down, Master Chang Geng ordered protector disciples to search the northern peaks for anyone left behind.

• Families gathered outside Great Forest Temple's camp and begged Master Chang Xing to save their relatives on Mount Yao.
• Master Chang Xing explained that Great Forest Temple had warned the disciples and would protect those who came down, but the crowd mostly dispersed to form an alliance against the Four Immortal Path Sects.
• Master Changsheng told Master Chang Xing to drive the disciples off Mount Yao, seal the acupoints of those who refused, and kill anyone found hiding during a later search.
• Great Forest Temple's disciples descended from the summit and sealed the acupoints of the northern-side disciples, kicking them down the mountain.
• Master Chang Geng ordered protector disciples to ascend Mount Yao and clear every northern peak.

The Four Immortal Path Sects continued searching Yao Mountain as martial-world sects gathered under Old Master Shang to demand access. True Person Haoyun attacked the delegation with a fiery artifact, leaving Old Master Shang engulfed in burning sparks.

• Master Chang Geng sent Protector disciples up Yao Mountain, then ordered the remaining Great Forest Temple disciples to search it as cries of suffering echoed from the summit.
• The Four Immortal Path Sects carried down the dead, while Old Master Shang arrived with more than a thousand people representing 104 martial-world sects.
• Old Master Shang demanded that Bai Yanqiu let martial-world sects search Yao Mountain alongside the immortal-path disciples and claim any treasures they found.
• Bai Yanqiu questioned how the groups would settle ownership and warned that allowing anyone to seize treasures could bring more bloodshed.
• True Person Haoyun interrupted the discussion and launched sparks from a flute-like Dharma artifact at Old Master Shang and the delegation.
• The sparks set Old Master Shang’s clothes, skin, hair, and saber sheath ablaze, causing him to cry out and struggle to brush them away.

True Person Haoyun and True Person Haofeng tested their empowered magical artifacts, killing Old Master Shang and many others as an immortal mansion began to appear above Mount Yao. The crowds rushed toward the blood-red light and fell into a mass slaughter, while Shuiyunjian raised a barrier and an invocation sounded from the Great Forest Temple’s direction.

• True Person Haoyun burned Old Master Shang and nearby people with the Fiery Flame Flute, while True Person Haofeng killed another crowd with his Lightning Cone.
• True Person Haoyue and the others spotted a growing point of light above Mount Yao and recognized it as an immortal mansion or passage to the Immortal Realm.
• The light spread blood-red radiance and powerful Primordial Qi across Mount Yao, drawing the attention of sect leaders and martial artists throughout the area.
• Tens of thousands charged toward the light, and their competition erupted into a slaughter as blood seeped into the earth beneath the mountain.
• True Person Haoyun, True Person Haoyue, True Person Haofeng, and Bai Yanqiu raised a barrier around Shuiyunjian’s camp, leaving the crowd behind it to turn on one another.
• A Buddhist invocation sounded from midair and drew the attention of True Person Haoyun and the others.

Zhang Xiaohu persuaded the Misty Sect elders to stay away from Mount Yao, warning that the immortal estate would draw stronger opponents and that their sect still faced danger. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaohua raced toward Mount Yao as elders from the Great Forest Temple, Incense-Passing Cult, and Shuiyunjian gathered there and renewed old tensions.

• Zhang Xiaohu used Li Jian’s changing attitude toward a copper coin, silver, and a golden yuanbao to explain why pursuing the immortal estate could be fatal.
• Zhang Xiaohu told the Misty Sect elders to guard the manor, noting that Jingyi had demanded Deputy Sect Leader Ming or Deputy Sect Leader Gao go to Mount Yao.
• Zhang Xiaohua sensed unusual changes in Primordial Qi and warm winds, suspected Mount Yao was stirring, and flew toward it.
• True Person Haoyun saw three monks from the Great Forest Temple and two abbesses from Incense-Passing Cult arrive at Mount Yao.
• Master Yuanwu and Abbess Shujie exchanged barbed remarks about their past, while Abbess Shuqing greeted Master Yuandao.

Abbess Shujie and Master Yuanwu clashed while their leaders urged them to focus on the immortal mansion. Master Yuandao then questioned True Person Haoyun about Master Yuantian’s murder, and Haoyun launched a sudden attack with the help of True Person Haoyue and True Person Haofeng.

• Master Yuandao and Master Yuanwu greeted Abbess Shuqing and Abbess Shujie, and they agreed that they had come to pursue the same immortal opportunity.
• True Person Haoyun identified himself as belonging to Shuiyunjian, prompting the abbesses to discuss the destroyed Divine Blade Sect and the death of Master Yuantian.
• Abbess Shujie attacked Master Yuanwu with her Peach Blossom Whip, and he defended himself with an alms bowl and the Demon Slaying Sword.
• Abbess Shuqing declined to fight Master Yuandao, then agreed to witness his questions to True Person Haoyun.
• Master Yuandao asked Haoyun to show the ritual artifact that resembled the weapon used to kill Master Yuantian.
• Haoyun feigned cooperation, attacked Master Yuandao with a scarlet light, and ordered True Person Haoyue and True Person Haofeng to join the assault.

Great Forest Temple’s Yuandao and Yuanming fought Shuiyunjian’s masters with powerful Buddhist treasures, while Abbess Shuqing intervened against a hidden attack. The battle remained unresolved as a new earthshaking crash interrupted the combatants.

• Yuanwu and Abbess Shujie began fighting, leaving Yuandao and Yuanming to face True Person Haoyun, True Person Haoyue, and True Person Haofeng.
• Yuanming used the Momo Bead against Haofeng, while Yuandao’s Demon Subduing Pestle extinguished Haoyun’s fire and clashed with Haoyue’s Lightning Hammer.
• Haoyun sent a concealed Mystic Bone Needle at Yuandao, but Yuandao caught it in the Two Elements Box and revealed that Great Forest Temple had prepared for the weapon that killed Yuantian.
• Haoyue attacked Yuandao from behind, but Abbess Shuqing blocked the strike with the Plain Cloud Soap White Banner.
• Abbess Shuqing and Haoyue exchanged remarks about their sects’ ancient treasures before an earthshaking crash interrupted them.

The Immortal Path masters’ artifact clash intensified the bloody radiance above Yao Mountain, while Master Yuandao and Abbess Shuqing revealed that they had been waiting to trap two Heavenly Dragon Sect attackers. Di Shitian then joined the fight, and the ambush turned into a battle between the sects.

• Master Yuanwu’s Demon Slaying Sword collided with Abbess Shujie’s Peach Blossom Whip as Master Yuanming’s Momo Bead struck True Person Haofeng’s Lightning Cone, leaving the four masters reeling from the backlash.
• The radiance above Yao Mountain grew brighter and bloodier, and two black-clad Heavenly Dragon Sect disciples attacked Abbess Shujie and Master Yuanming from behind.
• Master Yuandao and Abbess Shuqing revealed their trap, and the masters formed a formation that caught both attackers; Master Yuandao identified one as Di Shitian.
• Di Shitian mocked the formation and charged, prompting the Great Forest Temple and Incense-Passing Cult masters to attack him and his fellow disciple.
• Master Yuanming’s Momo Bead struck the second Heavenly Dragon Sect disciple in the back and sent him tumbling through the air as he spat blood.

Di Shitian’s apparent defeat was revealed as part of a series of feints, but Master Tiangang struck the real Di Shitian and the Heavenly Dragon Sect escaped after a brief counterattack. Master Tiangang and the surviving sect leaders mourned their dead, while Abbess Shuqing left Yao Mountain with the Peach Blossom Whip.

• Master Yuanwu and Abbess Shujie’s group overwhelmed the apparent Di Shitian and killed the black-clothed Heavenly Dragon Sect fighter, but the real Di Shitian emerged and killed Yuanwu and Shujie.
• Di Shitian revealed that he had seen through the ambush and mocked the Great Forest Temple and Incense-Passing Cult before pulling several people into the air.
• A hidden attacker pierced Di Shitian’s back, and Master Tiangang ordered the Great Forest Temple fighters to attack as the Heavenly Dragon Sect tried to flee.
• The fleeing Heavenly Dragon Sect members crushed jade talismans and vanished in black smoke, while Haoyun and the others recognized Master Tiangang.
• Master Tiangang, Master Yuandao, and Master Yuanming lamented Yuanwu and Shujie’s deaths, and Abbess Shuqing took the Peach Blossom Whip and flew east from Yao Mountain.

After the battle over Yao Mountain, the immortal mansion emerged from the void as martial sects prepared for the struggle ahead. Zhang Xiaohua arrived at the mountain to watch, sensed dense Primordial Qi and the stench of blood, and overheard Xiao Qi and Qi Lian.

• Master Tiangang left with Master Yuandao and Master Yuanming after reflecting on the battle and the approaching immortal mansion.
• The slaughter beneath Yao Mountain ended, leaving forty percent of the gathered martial world people dead as the light above the mountain expanded and changed color.
• Abbess Shuqing told Abbess Jingyi about the battle, prompting Abbess Jingyi to question Master Tiangang's motives and prepare the Incense-Passing Cult for the mansion's emergence.
• At dawn, the light revealed an ancient great hall emerging from the void, and it was more than half visible by the time the sun rose.
• Zhang Xiaohua disguised himself and rode toward Yao Mountain, entered past the sect checkpoints, and sensed dense Primordial Qi and a strong smell of blood.
• Zhang Xiaohua overheard Qi Lian ask whether Xiao Qi could walk, and Xiao Qi weakly regretted coming to see the excitement.

Zhang Xiaohua overheard Xiao Qi and Qi Lian resolve to stay and claim the immortal mansion, then incapacitated them to keep them safe. As the bird-nest-like palace above Yao Mountain fully emerged and released Primordial Qi, its bloody light and immense divine sense swept over the gathered crowd.

• Xiao Qi insisted that he and Qi Lian stay at Yao Mountain to seize the immortal mansion, despite their injuries and the danger from the great sects.
• Zhang Xiaohua learned from their conversation that Di Shitian had died and wondered whether Meng had come to Yao Mountain.
• Zhang Xiaohua struck Xiao Qi and Qi Lian's major acupoints so they would sleep for two days instead of joining the struggle.
• The palace above Yao Mountain became fully visible amid thunder and released a surge of Primordial Qi that Zhang Xiaohua absorbed through the Carefree Heart Sutra.
• A deafening sound stopped, the bird-nest-like palace began pulsing with bloody light, and a vast divine sense emerged from within it.

Zhang Xiaohua and the martial artists witnessed the Immortal Mansion descend onto Mount Yao, but its terrifying aura overwhelmed everyone before it landed. When the palace stairs appeared, Li Xu tried to reach them and was killed by Master Yuanming’s Momo Bead, as Bai Yanqiu rejected Master Changsheng’s demand to move Shuiyunjian’s disciples back.

• The palace’s pressure nearly forced Zhang Xiaohua to kneel, but the Dragon-Tiger and phoenix talismans resisted it until the aura vanished.
• The Immortal Mansion rotated, descended, and landed on Mount Yao while Zhang Xiaohua made his way near Shuiyunjian’s camp.
• A staircase extended from the palace gates to the mountain’s foot, and the revealed plaque’s characters filled the crowd with awe.
• Li Xu rushed toward the stairs, but Master Yuanming’s Momo Bead struck and killed him just before he reached them.
• Master Changsheng ordered Bai Yanqiu to withdraw Shuiyunjian’s disciples ten zhang, and Bai Yanqiu refused.

The sects negotiated a tense standoff over who would enter the immortal estate first, while Zhang Xiaohua realized the palace bore the same name as his Haotian Mirror. When he took out the mirror, it drew him toward the palace and exposed his identity as Ren Xiaoyao.

• True Person Haoyue, Master Yuandao, Abbess Shuqing, and others raised magical artifacts to counter Great Forest Temple's forces above the stairs.
• Abbess Shuqing accused Master Tiangang of causing Shujie's death and agreed to support Divine Blade Sect, then both sides withdrew ten zhang to discuss their next move.
• Zhang Xiaohua recognized the palace gate's ancient characters as “Haotian” and wondered whether the estate was connected to his mirror.
• Zhang Xiaohua took out the Haotian Mirror, which flew toward the palace gate and cast a beam of light that pulled him toward it.
• The palace's seven-colored radiance revealed Zhang Xiaohua's true appearance, and Master Tiangang recognized him as Ren Xiaoyao.

Zhang Xiaohua entered the immortal manor through its palace gate, prompting the immortal sect leaders to fight and the martial world factions to charge toward the steps. The chapter left Mount Yao engulfed in a bloody battle as the sects tried to hold their defenses.

• Zhang Xiaohua was carried by seven-colored radiance through the palace gate, and Master Tiangang’s Yanfan Wheel failed to stop him.
• Abbess Jingyi recognized Zhang Xiaohua as Ren Xiaoyao, while Abbess Shuqing and True Person Haoyun joined the fighting against Master Tiangang.
• The martial world crowd surged toward the immortal manor, and Bai Yanqiu ordered Shuiyunjian’s disciples to block them.
• The leaders of the Three Immortal Sects and the Righteous Path Alliance sent reinforcements to defend the southern steps, where the only entrance to the manor lay.
• The factions clashed across Mount Yao, and more than two thousand people died in the slaughter.

The Righteous Path Alliance, the Three Immortal Sects, Shuiyunjian, and the Incense-Passing Cult sent their elites into the slaughter as casualties mounted. In the sky, the battle over the steps left many leaders wounded or falling, and the immortal estate turned blood-red and began sucking away the Primordial Qi around Mount Yao.

• Alliance Leader Zhang asked Master Changsheng, Abbess Jingyi, and Bai Yanqiu to send their forces into the battle after the Righteous Path Alliance suffered heavy losses.
• Abbess Jingyi launched her Peachwood Sword, and the Incense-Passing Cult's inner disciples joined her in cutting down the attackers.
• Master Changsheng, Shuiyunjian, and the Righteous Path Alliance committed their remaining elite forces, and the fighting continued as bodies covered the ground.
• Master Tiangang used the Yanfan Wheel to strike True Person Haoyun from the sky, while True Person Haoyue was wounded by Master Yuanming's Momo Bead.
• The immortal estate turned blood-red, and Master Yuandao, True Person Haofeng, Master Yuanming, True Person Haoyue, Master Tiangang, and Abbess Shuqing all fell during the renewed clash.
• The immortal estate flared brightly and drained the Primordial Qi that had gathered around Mount Yao.

As the immortal mansion drained the Primordial Qi from Yao Mountain, the fighting factions raced to decide who would enter first. Zhang Xiaohua entered the mansion alone and found himself on a vast jade passageway, where flight and divine sense were restricted and the path violently repelled him.

• The immortal mansion’s suction drained the Primordial Qi around Yao Mountain, unleashing black clouds, hurricanes, and snow that disrupted the battle outside.
• Bai Yanqiu rescued True Person Haoyue, True Person Haoyun, and True Person Haofeng, then persuaded Abbess Jingyi and Master Changsheng to let the Three Immortal Sects enter before Alliance Leader Zhang.
• Peacock counted to three, and Master Changsheng, Abbess Jingyi, and Bai Yanqiu raced up the steps; Master Chang Geng and Master Chang Xing followed, leaving Alliance Leader Zhang to pursue them.
• Zhang Xiaohua was pulled through the palace gate by the Haotian Mirror’s radiance and found himself inside the immense immortal mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua discovered that flight and divine sense reached only three chi inside the mansion, then stepped onto the jade passageway and was hurled into the air by a powerful force.

Zhang Xiaohua struggled to cross the strange passages and reach the palace inside the Haotian Immortal Manor. He nearly reached its light curtains, but a sudden crushing force pressed him down on the black-and-white passage.

• Zhang Xiaohua found that the colored jade passages repelled him, then discovered their resistance weakened from purple through red, though he still could not cross them steadily.
• Zhang Xiaohua used his true qi to stand on the red passage for several steps before its force threw him back.
• Zhang Xiaohua reached the black-and-white passage beside the blood-colored barrier and slowly began crossing it toward the palace.
• Zhang Xiaohua continued forward despite growing doubts about the manor's danger, using a Qi Stone to replenish his energy as the passage's resistance increased.
• Zhang Xiaohua neared the palace's pale white light curtain when the force beneath him reversed and a tremendous pressure nearly drove him into the river.

Zhang Xiaohua explored the palace beyond the black-and-white passage, found a celestial hall and a restricted herb garden, and discovered a gray road that stirred his true qi. He chose to follow the gray road toward whatever lay behind the palace before Master Changsheng and the others arrived.

• Zhang Xiaohua passed through the white light curtain and saw a vast celestial space with a seven-colored throne overlooking Yao Mountain and Five Claw Peak.
• Zhang Xiaohua crossed the grand hall and entered a plain side hall, where he found and took several meditation cushions.
• Zhang Xiaohua explored a garden of colored soil and Primordial Qi-rich water but found no herbs and could not overcome the plots’ restrictions.
• Zhang Xiaohua reached a gray passage that his divine sense could not penetrate and felt his meridians and true qi drawn toward the area behind the palace.
• Zhang Xiaohua decided to take the gray road before Master Changsheng and the others arrived.

Zhang Xiaohua entered a small diamond-shaped house where immense pressure forced him to strengthen his bones by practicing the Big Dipper Divine Fist, and he captured a thread of mysterious purple Qi with Chasing Meng. His true Qi then urged him toward the round palace, where he arrived before a vast red curtain of light.

• Zhang Xiaohua entered the little house and found himself pinned down by crushing pressure that sealed his true Qi and divine sense.
• Zhang Xiaohua practiced the Big Dipper Divine Fist under the pressure, tempering his bones and making the force easier to withstand.
• Zhang Xiaohua struck a passing thread of mysterious purple Qi with Chasing Meng and absorbed it into the nameless spot in his left arm.
• Zhang Xiaohua left the little house and followed his surging true Qi through the passage toward the round palace.
• Zhang Xiaohua reached the enormous palace after hearing a clear bird cry and found a smooth red curtain of light blocking its only entrance.

Zhang Xiaohua used the Chasing Dreams sword and the flow in his left arm to cut through the palace’s blood-red barrier, entering a vast wilderness filled with enormous, strange beasts. As his true qi continued to run wild, he discovered that he could use Flying Technique again and set off to investigate the cause.

• Zhang Xiaohua tried a fire talisman, the Haotian Mirror, and the Dragon Binding Ring against the barrier, but none worked.
• Zhang Xiaohua used the Nameless Sword Moves with Chasing Dreams to cut open the barrier and entered the palace.
• Zhang Xiaohua found that the palace’s interior was a vast, ancient wilderness inhabited by gigantic unfamiliar beasts, and that his divine sense worked there again.
• Zhang Xiaohua watched a flying snake evade and withstand the one-horned beast’s lightning before killing it by burrowing into its body.
• A bird’s cry sent nearby beasts fleeing, while Zhang Xiaohua’s true qi boiled again; he then realized he could use Flying Technique and began walking onward.

Zhang Xiaohua crossed an invisible barrier into a vast basin and discovered that a phoenix was undergoing Nirvana of Fire. As the basin’s flames surged toward the phoenix, they struck Zhang Xiaohua and destroyed his clothing, hair, and flesh while he lay unconscious.

• Zhang Xiaohua stayed motionless until the giant flying serpent left, then continued across the wasteland past other enormous beasts that ignored him.
• Zhang Xiaohua reached a depression where white light from objects high in the sky calmed his surging true qi, but an invisible barrier stopped him from entering.
• Zhang Xiaohua worked out that the barrier blocked objects carrying Primordial Qi, hid his belongings in a boulder crack, and crossed into the basin.
• Zhang Xiaohua saw a huge phoenix ignite in dark-red flames as it began Nirvana of Fire, and flames rising from the basin struck him before he could escape.
• Zhang Xiaohua fell unconscious, and a strange fluctuation and countless starlights appeared around him, but his clothing, hair, and flesh were burned away.