Recaps

Zhang Xiaohua’s body was burned away during the phoenix’s nirvana, but his bones, dragon veins, and other hidden powers survived. The phoenix’s reborn flesh formed a human body around his skeleton, and the phoenix spirit was drawn into a black dot behind his head.

• The nirvana flames incinerated Zhang Xiaohua’s flesh, while his jade-like skeleton, dragon veins, Alchemy Heart, and other hidden treasures endured and absorbed the flames and Primordial Qi.
• The phoenix vanished into 132 million points of light, which consumed the surrounding space and Primordial Qi before forming new Phoenix flesh within a barrier protected by eight magical artifacts.
• The phoenix spirit descended with its flesh and fused it to Zhang Xiaohua’s skeleton, forming a complete human body that matched his former one.
• The phoenix spirit failed to escape the flesh fused to Zhang Xiaohua’s bones and golden threads, then flew toward the black dot behind his head.
• The black dot released a strange suction force and pulled the phoenix spirit inside.

Zhang Xiaohua emerged reborn in the void after absorbing the phoenix, and the formation that imprisoned him broke apart. He assembled seven Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnaces into a larger furnace, but the Demon Refining Pot’s lid settled on top and severed his connection to it.

• Zhang Xiaohua woke naked in the void, discovered the wilderness was gone, and found himself trapped inside the light barrier.
• After Zhang Xiaohua punched the barrier, the eight magical artifacts examined him, then scattered along with the Demon Refining Pot’s lid and the barrier disappeared.
• Zhang Xiaohua retrieved his robe and money pouch, found a Xiubei Stele behind an invisible barrier, and discovered that his appearance had changed and the Haotian Mirror had vanished.
• Zhang Xiaohua recognized the seven depressions around the Xiubei Stele as the Big Dipper and placed his seven Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnaces into them.
• The seven furnaces merged into an enormous Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace, but the Demon Refining Pot’s lid descended onto it and severed Zhang Xiaohua’s connection.

Zhang Xiaohua refined the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, gained the ability to partially control the immortal mansion, and collected ten magical artifacts. As he flew to drive out the intruders, Master Changsheng, Abbess Jingyi, and Bai Yanqiu agreed to race one another into the mansion.

• The pill furnace flew away, and Zhang Xiaohua discovered he could approach the Xiubei Stele and began refining it.
• Zhang Xiaohua realized his cultivation had leapt to the late stage of the sixteenth layer of Qi Cultivation, then continued refining the stele.
• A hidden consciousness attacked Zhang Xiaohua’s Niwan Palace, but his talismans trapped and destroyed it, absorbing its remnants into his core of elixir.
• Zhang Xiaohua refined about ten percent of the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, shrank it to palm size, and used it to collect ten magical artifacts.
• Zhang Xiaohua flew toward the intruders, while Master Changsheng, Abbess Jingyi, and Bai Yanqiu agreed to have their disciples guard the stairs as they raced to enter the immortal mansion.

Abbess Jingyi raced ahead of Master Changsheng and Bai Yanqiu to enter the Immortal Mansion, while a mysterious blood-red rain drove the disciples below the stairs into a massacre. Inside, she found that the jade passageways were guarded by powerful restrictions and chose the black-and-white route as the others arrived.

• Abbess Jingyi used a secret technique to overtake Master Changsheng on the stairs, while Master Changsheng stopped Bai Yanqiu from passing and then caught her when she fell.
• Blood-red light and rain appeared as the disciples climbed, and a Shuiyunjian disciple’s blood let black qi possess a Great Forest Temple monk, triggering a battle that spread among the sects.
• Abbess Jingyi reached the palace gates first, entered the Immortal Mansion, and was thrown back when she tried the purple and blue jade passageways.
• Abbess Jingyi avoided the remaining colored routes and headed for the black-and-white passageway as Master Changsheng and Bai Yanqiu entered the mansion behind her.

Abbess Jingyi reached the immortal mansion’s central palace first but found herself unable to leave the black cloud or approach the throne. Master Changsheng and Bai Yanqiu arrived, and as Bai Yanqiu prepared to test the throne with the Demon Refining Pot, Jingyi realized magical artifacts might work inside the palace.

• Master Changsheng and Bai Yanqiu followed the sect emblems toward the black-and-white passages, while Alliance Leader Zhang followed the Incense-Passing Cult.
• Abbess Jingyi crossed the jade passage by using true qi to withstand its force, then entered the black light screen and found herself in a vast palace with a lofty throne.
• Abbess Jingyi tried to reach the throne and a nearby red cloud with a small sword, but both proved intangible, and an unseen force kept her on her black cloud.
• Master Changsheng and Bai Yanqiu arrived on pale white clouds, and Abbess Jingyi told them she believed the throne was the immortal mansion’s hub.
• Bai Yanqiu moved ahead of Master Changsheng and brought out the Divine Blade Sect’s Demon Refining Pot, prompting Abbess Jingyi to realize magical artifacts might work inside the palace.

Bai Yanqiu’s attempt to take the central throne destroyed the Demon Refining Pot and left her badly injured, while disciples from several sects slipped away to explore beyond the throne. Peacock, Chen Chen, and Rain Swallow reached a sea of clouds filled with pavilions and prepared to investigate.

• Bai Yanqiu sent the Demon Refining Pot toward the throne, but violet lightning destroyed it and injured her.
• Abbess Jingyi told Peacock, Chen Chen, and Rain Swallow to pass through the black light curtain behind the throne and scout ahead.
• Alliance Leader Zhang failed to cross the restriction to the throne, while Deputy Alliance Leader Yan reported that Deputy Alliance Leader Chai had vanished after falling into the water.
• Kongchan and other disciples quietly headed behind the throne, followed by Liang Cangxu and the Shuiyunjian disciples.
• Peacock led Chen Chen and Rain Swallow through the light curtains to a corridor with six colored passages, and Chen Chen hurt her foot testing a restriction.
• The three reached a sea of clouds with many magnificent pavilions, and Chen Chen stepped onto a black-and-white prayer mat to search for the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

Chen Chen, Kong Que, and Junior Sister Yan entered a white jade palace and found jade slips and strange artifacts they could not remove because of powerful restrictions. They took four cushions and traveled by a true-qi-powered boat to a lakeside pavilion area, where they began investigating what lay ahead.

• Piercing cries shook the cloud sea and nearly knocked Chen Chen from her cushion before Kong Que caught her.
• Kong Que, Chen Chen, and Junior Sister Yan reached the white palace and found jade slips and strange artifacts, but their attacks could not break the restrictions protecting them.
• Kong Que refused to summon the Cult Master, fearing others would take the treasures, and ordered the three to search the hall; they found nothing except four emerald-green cushions, which Chen Chen carried away.
• The three left through the palace gates and found a vast lake, then boarded small boats that moved when they infused them with true qi.
• Kong Que, Chen Chen, and Junior Sister Yan reached a pond surrounded by unfamiliar trees and more than a dozen pavilions, and turned toward the foremost three-story building.

Peacock, Chen Chen, and Rain Swallow searched the small buildings in the Immortal Mansion and collected unfamiliar treasures, including two flexible swords. After discovering that the pond’s unusual lotuses could be harvested with those swords, they gathered them and fled toward the palaces as Great Forest Temple and Shuiyunjian arrived.

• Peacock, Chen Chen, and Rain Swallow searched the small buildings but initially found only everyday furnishings and scattered objects.
• Peacock told the others to gather portable items, and the three collected jade slips, ornaments, and other unfamiliar treasures.
• Peacock and Chen Chen each found a flexible sword disguised as a rope, prompting the three to search the buildings again.
• Chen Chen spotted figures approaching from the palace, while Peacock saw boats carrying Great Forest Temple monks and realized the pond lotuses were unusual.
• Peacock and Chen Chen used their flexible swords to harvest the lotuses, then fled into the forest with Rain Swallow as Great Forest Temple and Shuiyunjian reached shore.
• After the newcomers began searching the buildings, Peacock and her companions returned to shore, boarded a boat, and sped toward the palaces.

Peacock, Chen Chen, and Rain Swallow returned from the far shore with a brocade handkerchief, flexible swords, and fragrant lotus leaves, while the factions struggled to break the Immortal Mansion’s restrictions. The handkerchief swallowed the lotus leaves, but the throne at the heart of the mansion remained untouchable.

• Peacock and her companions returned to the palace, where the disciples told them the rear-hall restrictions had resisted Abbess Shuqing and other experts.
• Chen Chen presented a brocade handkerchief that Abbess Shuqing recognized as a treasure capable of blocking divine sense, and Peacock handed over two flexible swords.
• Abbess Shuqing suspected the fragrant flowers were Nine Heavens Profound Lotuses, and Chen Chen and Rain Swallow stored the oversized lotus leaves inside the handkerchief.
• Abbess Shuqing ordered Incense-Passing Cult disciples to guard a rack of artifacts, prompting Great Forest Temple, Shuiyunjian, and the Righteous Path Alliance to claim racks of their own.
• Abbess Jingyi and the gathered factions continued trying to reach the central throne, but no one could touch it, and Abbess Shuqing told her that the Inheritance Disciples had gained benefits.

Chen Chen reported her group’s discoveries to Abbess Jingyi, who explained that their treasures likely came from the Immortal Mansion’s servants’ quarters and discussed the other sects’ failed searches. Zhang Xiaohua then appeared on the central throne, declared the Immortal Mansion belonged to the Big Dipper Sect, and expelled a challenger from the hall.

• Abbess Jingyi praised Chen Chen, Peacock, and Rain Swallow’s discoveries but warned that they had probably explored quarters for low-ranking servants rather than the Mansion’s important areas.
• Abbess Jingyi recounted Great Forest Temple’s failed attempt to pass through a Buddha-niche-like room and learned that slaughter beneath Yao Mountain had caused many deaths among the four sects.
• Peacock asked to investigate the Buddha niche, and Chen Chen handed the brocade handkerchief and its contents to Abbess Jingyi before the three prepared to leave.
• After daylight broke and the killing below Yao Mountain stopped, a thunderous apparition of a young bald monk appeared above the Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua appeared on the central throne, identified himself as Ren Xiaoyao of the Big Dipper Sect, and declared that his sect would establish itself in the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• When a sect leader challenged his claim, Zhang Xiaohua defended his right to occupy the Mansion and swept the man out of the great hall and beyond Yao Mountain.

Zhang Xiaohua announced the establishment of the Big Dipper Sect at Yao Mountain and declared the Immortal Mansion its property. After the sects congratulated him and recalled their disciples, the Righteous Path Alliance largely ignored his order, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Zhang Xiaohua revealed that he had been expelled from the Incense-Passing Cult and formally established the Big Dipper Sect at Yao Mountain.
• Master Changsheng asked whether the sect was connected to the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Zhang Xiaohua denied any connection.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned Kong Ju to the hall and ordered the sects to recall their disciples from the Immortal Mansion, warning them not to seize anything by force.
• Abbess Jingyi, Master Changsheng, Bai Yanqiu, and the other sects congratulated Zhang Xiaohua, while Valley Master Nie learned that Xiao Yu was a registered disciple of the Big Dipper Sect.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave the sects one incense stick to stop searching the Immortal Mansion, but only a few disciples of the Righteous Path Alliance returned.

Zhang Xiaohua exposed Alliance Leader Zhang’s attempt to incite the Righteous Path Alliance disciples against the Big Dipper Sect and punished the conspirators, but spared Zhang after Master Changsheng and Abbess Jingyi pleaded for him. Afterward, Zhang discovered a mysterious black qi was draining blood from the corpses at the foot of Yao Mountain, but it escaped his pursuit underground.

• Alliance Leader Zhang asked Zhang Xiaohua for more time to gather the Righteous Path Alliance disciples, and Zhang granted another half-stick of incense.
• Zhang Xiaohua revealed a scene of the messenger urging Xu Kun to disregard him and attack, while Alliance Leader Zhang bought time in the great hall.
• After the incense burned out, Zhang Xiaohua declared the Alliance members would stay and sent out streams of light to kill the gathered disciples.
• Master Changsheng and Abbess Jingyi pleaded for Alliance Leader Zhang, who killed the messenger and apologized; Zhang Xiaohua then spared him and removed the corpse.
• Zhang Xiaohua sent the dead disciples’ corpses to the foot of Yao Mountain, where black qi drained their blood and fled underground before his divine sense could catch it.

Zhang Xiaohua suspected the Heavenly Dragon Sect had used a black-flag-like treasure to scheme beneath Yao Mountain, then sent the martial sects away and sealed the immortal mansion. He remained its limited master and vanished from the throne after activating its restrictions.

• Zhang Xiaohua asked Abbess Jingyi about the fighting beneath Yao Mountain and warned that the corpses might reveal something unusual.
• Master Tiangang said Great Forest Temple had no black-flag treasure and identified the Heavenly Dragon Sect as a likely culprit, while Zhang Xiaohua suspected it might be connected to the flag he had sensed before.
• Zhang Xiaohua warned the leaders that the Heavenly Dragon Sect might have laid a scheme, declared Yao Mountain Big Dipper Sect territory, and ordered them to remove the corpses and leave.
• Zhang Xiaohua secretly told Valley Master Nie that Xiao Yu was at the Misty Sect, and Valley Master Nie agreed to go there with Si Yakong and Zhen Xuan.
• After the visitors departed, Zhang Xiaohua inspected the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, activated the immortal mansion's restrictions, and used a ritual implement to leave.

After Zhang Xiaohua disappeared from Yao Mountain, the leaders gathered below discovered that corpses around the mountain had been drained of blood and life force. Abbess Jingyi and the other sect leaders debated who was responsible, while Alliance Leader Zhang concealed his alarm and tried to leave; the cause of the deaths remained unknown.

• Zhang Xiaohua vanished from a secluded spot as the immortal mansion’s stairs disappeared, its gates closed, and its radiance faded.
• Abbess Jingyi’s disciples found corpses with their blood and life force drained, and Abbess Shuqing confirmed the victims had been dried out.
• Abbess Jingyi ordered the dead to be buried and went to meet Master Changsheng, while Abbess Shuqing kept Chen Chen to hear Ren Xiaoyao’s history.
• Abbess Jingyi, Master Changsheng, and the gathered leaders considered whether the Heavenly Dragon Sect had caused the deaths, then wondered whether the injured Di Shitian had been an impostor.
• Abbess Jingyi questioned Alliance Leader Zhang about his troubled expression, and he angrily threatened to leave before Master Changsheng and Abbess Jingyi calmed him.

The martial leaders suspected the Heavenly Dragon Sect was behind the bloodless slaughter near Yao Mountain, while Abbess Jingyi explained to Alliance Leader Zhang why the Misty Sect held leverage over their Secret Realm plans. Zhang Xiaohua flew toward Pingyang City, reflecting on his sudden cultivation gains and the founding of the Big Dipper Sect, as Zhang Bairen sensed his arrival.

• Bai Yanqiu and Master Changsheng discussed the drained corpses and agreed that the Heavenly Dragon Sect might be responsible, then the sect leaders departed to plan their response.
• Alliance Leader Zhang asked Abbess Jingyi to help secure the return of his captured disciples, but she explained that the Misty Sect possessed a sheepskin map essential to entering the Secret Realm.
• Abbess Jingyi told Alliance Leader Zhang that the Misty Sect's release terms benefited all three allied sects, and advised him to negotiate with it when the four sects gathered.
• Alliance Leader Zhang and Abbess Jingyi worried that Ren Xiaoyao might learn of the Secret Realm, but they expected the Big Dipper Sect to be occupied with its new founding.
• Zhang Xiaohua flew toward Pingyang City and marveled at his increased cultivation, his new treasures, and his ownership of Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Bairen looked toward the sky as Zhang Xiaohua approached, and Xiaohei and Xiaohuang trembled and prostrated themselves.

Zhang Xiaohua returned to his family and disciples with a dramatically changed appearance, alarming everyone and even frightening Little Yellow and Xiaohei. Zhang Xiaohu tested whether he was really Zhang Xiaohua, and the chapter ended as Zhang Xiaohua began answering his questions.

• Zhang Xiaohua landed in the courtyard, where Liu Qian, Guo Sufi, and Zhang Xiaolong struggled to recognize him.
• Zhang Xiaohua gathered his family and disciples and reassured them that he was still himself, while Little Yellow and Xiaohei admitted they were frightened of him.
• Zhang Xiaohua told everyone to move inside for the winter, and Zhang Xiaohu arrived with Shui Tiantian.
• Nie Qianyu reasoned that Zhang Xiaohua's ability to change back to his old appearance proved his identity, but Zhang Xiaohu still asked him questions.
• Zhang Xiaohua correctly described where Senior Yang's portrait hung and hinted that he remembered the command for handling the Righteous Path Alliance's disciples.

Zhang Xiaohua reunited with his family and recounted rescuing Li Jinfeng and learning the tragic history of Yang Haoya and Yue Mingxin. He then revealed a mysterious Town Mansion Spirit Stele, but Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu mistook it for ordinary bluestone.

• Zhang Xiaohua joked about his identity by writing that he loved Chen Chen and Changge, making the family laugh and confirming he was himself.
• Zhang Xiaohua told everyone about finding Qu Jing'er, meeting and rescuing Li Jinfeng, and encountering Yue Mingxin's Primordial Spirit projection beneath Mochou Lake.
• Zhang Xiaohua recounted Yang Haoya and Yue Mingxin's story, leaving Nie Qianyu and the others saddened by its tragic ending.
• Zhang Xiaohua explained that Li Jinfeng was returning with Miss Mei's corpse alongside Yuan Changqing and two Misty Sect disciples, and Qiutong worried about the journey.
• Zhang Xiaohua produced a five-colored Town Mansion Spirit Stele, but Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu mistook it for a piece of bluestone, irritating him.

Zhang Xiaohua explained that the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion had emerged and belonged to the Big Dipper Sect, while the Town Mansion Spirit Stele served as its key. When Zhang Bairen swallowed the stele and later produced it on command, Shui Tiantian accepted that he deserved to be the sect’s Founding Disciple.

• Zhang Xiaohua revealed that the jade-like object was the Town Mansion Spirit Stele, and Zhang Xiaohu told the family about the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua announced that the Immortal Mansion had fallen into the hands of the Big Dipper Sect and explained that only he could authorize entry.
• Ou Yan recognized the spirit stele as the key to the Immortal Mansion, but Nie Qianyu and the others could not touch it.
• Zhang Bairen grabbed the spirit stele, swallowed it, and then brought it back out when Zhang Xiaohua promised him more things to play with.
• Zhang Xiaohua explained that Zhang Bairen had stored the spirit stele inside his body, convincing Shui Tiantian that the child deserved to be the Big Dipper Sect’s Founding Disciple.

Zhang Xiaohua recounted how he obtained Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion and founded the Big Dipper Sect, then discussed moving his family there amid looming conflict. Zhang Xiaohu learned that Ou Yan knew where the sheepskin scroll was and that Zhang Xiaohua had been keeping it, while the Longevity Pill remained a mystery.

• Zhang Xiaohua told his family and companions how he gained control of Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, founded the Big Dipper Sect, and punished the Righteous Path Alliance.
• Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu agreed that their family should move to Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion because Huanxi Mountain Villa and the Misty Sect could face attacks.
• Zhang Xiaohu privately told Ou Yan that Abbess Jingyi had ordered the Misty Sect to fulfill its promise to the Incense-Passing Cult and asked about the sheepskin scroll.
• Ou Yan revealed that Zhang Xiaohua had been keeping the sheepskin scroll for her, and she agreed to have him give it to Zhang Xiaohu.
• Ou Yan left the Longevity Pill in Zhang Xiaohua's hands, explaining that she knew only rumors that it could extend a person's lifespan.

Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Xiaohu arranged for Ou Yan to hand Huanxi Mountain Villa back to the Misty Sect, then prepared to move their family to the Big Dipper Sect at Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion. The family’s carriages set out for Yao Mountain as sect disciples returning from there discussed the new sect, unaware who was traveling beside them.

• Zhang Xiaohu agreed that Ou Yan could return Huanxi Mountain Villa to the Misty Sect and move to Yao Mountain with the Big Dipper Sect.
• Zhang Xiaohua gave Zhang Xiaohu the Nameless Finger of Five Claw Peak scroll, then took it back after agreeing to join him at Index Finger Peak on the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.
• Ou Yan accompanied Zhang Xiaohu to Misty Manor, where Li Jian and Liu Qingyang supported her plan to hand over the villa.
• Ou Yan arranged food and gathered Zhang Xiaohua’s chests for the move, while the Zhang family prepared to leave.
• Zhang Xiaohua, Zhang Xiaohu, Ou Yan, and their relatives set out for Yao Mountain in carriages as returning disciples discussed the Big Dipper Sect nearby.

Zhang Xiaohua brought his family and companions to the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion and showed them how to enter it. The group began settling into its servants’ quarters, amazed by the vast grounds and flying prayer mats.

• Zhang Xiaohua’s group traveled toward Yao Mountain, and he secretly met Valley Master Nie so Nie Qianyu could reunite with her father and give him a Meridian Nourishing Pill.
• At the foot of Yao Mountain, Zhang Xiaohua used a magical artifact to open a circle of light and brought his family, Mr. Liu, and their belongings into the Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua led everyone to the lakeside servants’ quarters and explained that he could only control a small part of the Immortal Mansion.
• Zhang Xiaohua showed the group nine pavilions and demonstrated how prayer mats flew between the cliff and the white pavilion.
• Zhang Cai rode a prayer mat through the air with Zhang Xiaohua beside him, then laughed that he had been an immortal for a while.

Zhang Xiaohua brought his family and disciples into the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, showed them its lake, towers, and cloud-filled Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and assigned them places to live. He gathered the Big Dipper Sect’s disciples for a lecture on their prospects in cultivation and left off while discussing Shui Tiantian’s aptitude and fate.

• Zhang Xiaohua returned with everyone from the immortal mansion’s lake and let them choose empty towers for their homes.
• Zhang Xiaohua took his disciples and Zhang Bairen to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where they explored the clouds but found an invisible boundary around the red-cloud area.
• Zhang Xiaohua told the disciples that Qu Jing'er was traveling to join the Big Dipper Sect and urged them to work hard at cultivation.
• Zhang Xiaohua assessed the disciples’ aptitudes and possible paths, including Nie Qianyu’s potential with formations, Zhang Ping'er’s martial arts foundation, and Ji Xiaohua’s cultivation affinity.
• Zhang Xiaohua began praising Shui Tiantian’s aptitude and connection to the Big Dipper Sect, saying his immortal opportunity had been destined.

Zhang Xiaohua guided his disciples into immortal cultivation, established a Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation, and settled his family in the immortal mansion. The chapter ended with Zhang Cai eager to farm there until he realized the mansion had no sun or night.

• Shui Tiantian and Zhang Ping'er agreed to begin cultivating anew, and Zhang Xiaohua named Xiaohei and Xiaohuang the Big Dipper Sect's guardian divine beasts.
• Zhang Xiaohua used five-colored jade marrow and the Town Mansion Spirit Stele to create a Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation for the disciples and animals to cultivate in.
• Zhang Xiaohua returned with his family to the pondside and helped them move their belongings into the small building, where Zhang Cai and Zhang Xiaolong began building a stove.
• Zhang Cai asked to reclaim land and farm in the immortal mansion, but he realized it had no sun after Zhang Xiaohua told him he could farm and raise animals there.

Zhang Xiaohua made the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion feel more like a home for his family, then prepared to face the coming date with Zhang Xiaohu. Meanwhile, the other sects chose to investigate the Heavenly Dragon Sect and rebuild their strength rather than attack without evidence.

• Zhang Xiaohua used the Town Mansion Spirit Stele to reveal a blue sky above the Immortal Mansion while preserving its restrictions.
• Zhang Xiaohua agreed to move his grandmother's and Ji Xiaohua's mother's coffins to the Immortal Mansion, and he, Zhang Xiaolong, Zhang Xiaohu, and Zhang Cai brought them there with plow oxen.
• Zhang Cai and Zhang Xiaolong prepared fields beside the lake, while Zhang Xiaohu left for the Misty Sect with Changge and Chen Chen after Zhang Xiaohua gave him a jade talisman and reminded him of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.
• Li Jinfeng and the others arrived at the Immortal Mansion after burying Miss Mei's coffin, and Li Jinfeng and Qiutong shyly avoided speaking to each other.
• Alliance Leader Zhang persuaded the sects to send disciples to investigate the Heavenly Dragon Sect and return to their own mountain gates to recover their strength.

Zhang Xiaohua’s disciples used the Spirit Gathering Formation in the Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion to begin cultivating the Immortal Path, while Abbess Jingyi’s group gathered in Nanzhao Town to discuss the other sects’ movements. The chapter left the Incense-Passing Cult preparing for a meeting at Five Claw Peak and still uncertain about the Misty Sect.

• Nie Qianyu formed her first thread of true qi after two days, becoming Zhang Xiaohua’s first disciple to step onto the Immortal Path.
• Ji Xiaohua, Shui Tiantian, Qu Jing'er, Ou Yan, and Zhang Ping'er followed, forming their first threads of true qi between the fifteenth and twenty-ninth days.
• Abbess Jingyi questioned Abbess Xuezhen about Yao Mountain, and Abbess Xuezhen reported that no one had entered or left the immortal mansion since Ren Xiaoyao withdrew its steps.
• Abbess Jingyi said spies from several sects were watching Yao Mountain and planned to meet Great Forest Temple at Five Claw Peak the following night.
• Abbess Xuezhen reported that the Misty Sect’s Ming Qing, Gao Kunheng, and Wuming Hall agents had disappeared from contact, and Abbess Jingyi warned the group not to confront Li Jian and the other Misty Sect disciples.