Recaps

Xiao Hua, Li Zongbao, and Cai Zhuoxia reached three stone doors while searching for Hundred Zhang Old Man’s legacy. Xiao Hua sensed danger beyond the middle door, but the group remained undecided about which passage to enter.

• Xiao Hua told Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia how Shang Hua Ming had been destroyed, and Li Zongbao suspected the Hundred Herbs Sect was responsible.
• Li Zongbao realized Qing Fengmin might have possessed multiple jade beasts, explaining how he gathered Tianqi rogue cultivators to search for the legacy.
• The group reached a chamber with three identical stone doors, and Cai Zhuoxia’s jade beast attached itself to the middle door.
• Li Zongbao failed to raise the middle stone door with his magical power, but Xiao Hua lifted it with his strength.
• Xiao Hua felt an ominous chill beyond the middle door and opened the other two, leaving the group to choose among the three dark passages.

Xiao Hua split from Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia and discovered a blood-red, humanoid pattern hidden in a cave at Hundred Zhang Peak. The pattern devoured Jiang Huanchi and other cultivators, while Li Zongbao shielded himself and Cai Zhuoxia from its attack and tried to lead her out.

• Xiao Hua parted ways with Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia, then entered a separate cave at Hundred Zhang Peak.
• Xiao Hua encountered eerie sounds and identical passages before spotting a blood-red pattern on a cave ceiling and fleeing.
• Jiang Huanchi’s jade beast flew into a matching pattern, which engulfed and consumed him despite his attempt to escape.
• Blood mist appeared in caves throughout Hundred Zhang Peak, swallowing cultivators as their screams echoed through the passages.
• Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia entered a space where Cai Zhuoxia’s jade beast flew toward a blood-red pattern, and Li Zongbao used a jade bottle to shield them from the descending mist.
• Li Zongbao grabbed Cai Zhuoxia and led her toward the exit, but the pattern’s eyes flashed crimson.

Li Zongbao, Cai Zhuoxia, Qing Fengmin, and Xiao Hua were teleported from the caves of Hundred Zhang Peak after encountering the bloody patterns and their blood mist. Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia arrived in a vast red-lit chamber and discovered a gigantic statue of a demon.

• The blood pattern teleported Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia away, and Qing Fengmin and dozens of Rogue Cultivators were likewise transported from their cave.
• Xiao Hua wandered through the changing passages as a blood shadow pursued him, drained his spiritual power, and failed to enter his sealed Niwan Palace before teleporting him away.
• Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia endured the teleportation pressure and dizziness without being attacked.
• Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia saw a towering, wing-membraned figure atop a beast-shaped statue in a red-lit space, and Li Zongbao identified it as a demon.

Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia discovered that Hundred Zhang Peak’s sealed chamber was a trap, and Qing Fengmin revealed his blood-shadow identity and began draining the gathered Rogue Cultivators. As Li Zongbao fought to stop him, his bell slowed Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow but awakened someone else.

• Li Zongbao concluded that he and Cai Zhuoxia were trapped beneath Hundred Zhang Peak, and blood-lit runes transported groups of Heaven Forsaken Rogue Cultivators into the chamber.
• Qing Fengmin claimed that Hundred Zhang Old Man’s legacy was only a stone niche and confessed that he had drained the old man’s essence blood; he then struck Luo Jiaxin, releasing a blood shadow from his body.
• A blood shadow emerged from Xiao Hua, entered Qing Fengmin, and left Xiao Hua unconscious; Qing Fengmin and Luo Jiaxin’s blood shadows began draining the Rogue Cultivators and burning their remains.
• Li Zongbao told Cai Zhuoxia to protect herself and attacked Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow with a sword talisman, but it was too fast to hit.
• Li Zongbao used a bell to slow Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow, and its ringing awakened another person.

Xiao Hua woke in the blood-red space and discovered that his demonic spear tip could harm the blood shadows. After driving off Luo Jiaxin’s blood shadow to protect Cai Zhuoxia, he remained beside her as Li Zongbao pursued Qing Fengmin.

• Xiao Hua awoke before the stone niche, instinctively stored the pill furnace in his space, and saw blood shadows draining the lives of Rogue Cultivators.
• Cai Zhuoxia was forced to abandon the jade bottle’s protective light when Rogue Cultivators attacked her, and she flew toward Xiao Hua.
• Cai Zhuoxia explained that Qing Fengmin was a demonic being who had used Heaven Forsaken to lure cultivators to Hundred Zhang Peak as food.
• A blood shadow approached Cai Zhuoxia while she watched Li Zongbao, so Xiao Hua thrust his demonic spear tip into it and wounded Luo Jiaxin.
• Xiao Hua stayed beside Cai Zhuoxia and reassured her, while Li Zongbao continued chasing Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow.

Li Zongbao used a flying sword to weaken one of Qing Fengmin’s blood shadows, but the other shadows devoured the Rogue Cultivators and merged into a powerful blood man. Qing Fengmin revealed that he intended to take over Li Zongbao’s body and use it to pursue Foundation Establishment.

• Li Zongbao struggled to catch Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow as it grew stronger by devouring the essence blood of Rogue Cultivators.
• After the shadow split into two, Li Zongbao controlled a flying sword to pursue and weaken one of them, while Xiao Hua watched his sword incantation with fascination.
• The two other blood shadows devoured the Rogue Cultivators outside the jade bottle’s blue radiance, shattered the barrier, and killed the cultivators sheltering within it.
• Xiao Hua realized the blood shadows had used the battle to distract them, as the weakened shadow joined the other two and all three merged into a blood ball.
• The blood ball bit apart Li Zongbao’s flying sword, then formed a human figure that spoke in Qing Fengmin’s voice and announced its plan to take Li Zongbao’s body.

Li Zongbao removed a secret Spirit Talisman and advanced to Foundation Establishment, then trapped Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow. After learning that the demon had killed Li Mingyang, he let Xiao Hua destroy it, though Qing Fengmin had begun to reveal that it knew how to remove something affecting Xiao Hua.

• Li Zongbao used Spirit Talismans to expose the cavern and unleash the power he had suppressed, entering Foundation Establishment.
• Li Zongbao sealed the cave and used a ring to absorb most of Qing Fengmin’s blood shadow, while Xiao Hua protected Cai Zhuoxia from its attack.
• Li Zongbao asked whether Qing Fengmin had encountered Li Mingyang, and the demon admitted it had swallowed the young Joyful Sect disciple’s essence and blood.
• Li Zongbao refused to let Qing Fengmin go, and Xiao Hua stabbed the blood sphere with his demonic spear, making it vanish.
• As it disappeared, Qing Fengmin began telling Xiao Hua that it knew how to remove something, but Xiao Hua did not let it finish.

Xiao Hua used the demon spearhead to destroy Blood Shadow, and he, Li Zongbao, and Cai Zhuoxia escaped Hundred Zhang Peak. After they divided the recovered storage-pouch contents, Cai Zhuoxia left, while Li Zongbao stayed to stabilize his Foundation Establishment realm and Xiao Hua planned to travel; a remnant of Blood Shadow had already fled toward Huanghua Ridge.

• Xiao Hua pierced the blood sphere with the demon spearhead and destroyed Blood Shadow, while Li Zongbao praised him and examined the weapon.
• Li Zongbao admitted he had come to Hundred Zhang Peak to search for Li Mingyang, and Cai Zhuoxia confronted him about his motives and the missing legacy.
• Xiao Hua toppled the stone statue to uncover an exit, recovered the storage pouches from Qing Fengmin and Luo Jiaxin, and left the cave with Li Zongbao and Cai Zhuoxia.
• A remnant of Blood Shadow emerged from the cave wall and flew toward Huanghua Ridge.
• Xiao Hua divided the recovered items between two storage pouches and gave Cai Zhuoxia her choice; he planned to travel, while Li Zongbao intended to cultivate in seclusion.
• Cai Zhuoxia departed by flying talisman, and Li Zongbao called after her but did not pursue.

Xiao Hua secluded himself to test the fire-element Burning Heaven Art and discovered it accelerated his cultivation, then found the Blood Shadow Art hidden in the pill furnace. He used its blood-control techniques to take control of his meridians and begin cultivating the Dragon Transformation Art, only to be interrupted by a familiar voice.

• Xiao Hua accepted Li Zongbao’s communication talismans, then found a concealed cave where he studied the Burning Heaven Art.
• Xiao Hua began cultivating with the Burning Heaven Art and found that it suited his fire-element constitution and worked faster than Shang Hua Ming’s method.
• Xiao Hua examined the pill furnace from Hundred Zhang Peak and discovered the Blood Shadow Art hidden inside it.
• Xiao Hua realized he could use the Blood Shadow Art’s techniques to control his meridians and cultivate the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Xiao Hua successfully controlled his meridians, emerged from the cave in high spirits, and heard a familiar voice address him.

Xiao Hua met Cai Zhuoxia near Hundred Zhang Peak, where she destroyed Li Zongbao’s communication talisman after learning he had given one to Xiao Hua as well. After reviewing Qing Fengmin’s possessions and finding over thirty Foundation Establishment Pills, Xiao Hua prepared to leave, but Cai Zhuoxia intercepted him and asked whether he would join her on another opportunity to make amends.

• Cai Zhuoxia returned after Xiao Hua told her Li Zongbao had left her a communication talisman, then burned it when she learned Xiao Hua had received one too.
• Xiao Hua considered whether to reveal Qing Fengmin’s role in Tianqi’s founding, but decided the alliance had likely already disbanded and moved on.
• Xiao Hua searched Qing Fengmin’s storage pouch and found four matching gold foils, a tiger-headed waist token, and over thirty Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Xiao Hua flew away from Hundred Zhang Peak, but Cai Zhuoxia intercepted him and asked if he would join her on another chance to make amends.

Cai Zhuoxia invited Xiao Hua to join her search for Mother-Child Spirit Fruit in the Qimeng Mountain Range so they could refine Fetal Breath Pills, but he declined for now. After she suggested a secluded cultivation site, Xiao Hua found an abandoned cave abode and settled in to cultivate.

• Cai Zhuoxia explained that Mother-Child Spirit Fruit from the Qimeng Mountain Range could be used to refine Fetal Breath Pills, which offered a fifty-percent chance of breaking through a cultivation bottleneck, and invited Xiao Hua to help find it.
• Xiao Hua refused the risky expedition but gave Cai Zhuoxia a communication talisman so she could contact him if he changed his mind.
• Cai Zhuoxia pointed Xiao Hua toward an abandoned cave abode south of Hundred Zhang Peak, and he found it hidden behind mountain trees.
• Xiao Hua blocked the cave entrance and began cultivating the Burning Heaven Art, the Dragon Transformation Art, and his true qi.
• As the days passed, Xiao Hua's cultivation speed caught up with that of ordinary cultivators and steadily improved.

After half a year in seclusion, Xiao Hua advanced to the middle Qi Cultivation third layer but ran out of cultivation pills and discovered that his furnace required earthfire. He left his cave dwelling seeking pills and a lead on earthfire, then activated Cai Zhuoxia’s communication talisman to locate her.

• Xiao Hua cultivated for more than half a year, advanced to the middle Qi Cultivation third layer, and exhausted his Marrow Cleansing Pills and Qingyi Pills.
• Xiao Hua learned that his Three-legged Vermilion Bird Phoenix Pattern Furnace could refine high-grade pills but required prior refinement and earthfire.
• Xiao Hua left seclusion and wondered whether Cai Zhuoxia had found the alchemy-connected cultivator she had mentioned.
• Xiao Hua harvested some spiritual herbs and discovered that the Rainbow Bloom had grown runes and was carrying two Water Pattern Butterfly eggs.
• Xiao Hua realized that his space could contain living creatures, including the insect eggs and the Ice Worm King Egg.
• Xiao Hua set out for the Jingbo City trading market, then activated Cai Zhuoxia’s communication talisman, which traveled only several li to his left before stopping.

Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia traveled to the Yan Family to recruit Yan Liwei for their search for the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit and to obtain help refining a Fetal Breath Pill. Yan Liwei arrived, belittled Xiao Hua, and demanded seventy percent of the pills, ending with an insinuation that Cai Zhuoxia cultivate with him.

• Cai Zhuoxia told Xiao Hua she had used part of a Foundation Establishment Pill because she had little hope of reaching Foundation Establishment through her family’s cultivation technique.
• Xiao Hua agreed to accompany Cai Zhuoxia to the Qimeng Mountain Range, and she explained that Yan Liwei could connect them to a Xunyan Sect alchemist.
• Cai Zhuoxia and Xiao Hua reached the Yan Family village, where Yan Feng received them and sent for Yan Liwei.
• Yan Liwei dismissed Xiao Hua as a low-level Rogue Cultivator and insisted that Cai Zhuoxia address him as a senior.
• Yan Liwei demanded seventy percent of the pills from their venture and suggested he would accept an even split if Cai Zhuoxia cultivated with him.

Xiao Hua joined Cai Zhuoxia and Yan Liwei on a journey to find an alchemist, accepting a smaller share after Yan Liwei demanded most of the pills. As Cai Zhuoxia changed their route and Yan Liwei behaved suspiciously, Xiao Hua discovered that his strange incantation had given him a vague new sense, but he still could not determine Yan Liwei’s intentions.

• Yan Liwei demanded seventy percent of the pills and dismissed Xiao Hua, but Xiao Hua agreed to accompany Cai Zhuoxia anyway.
• Cai Zhuoxia and Yan Liwei swore an alliance, and the three set out toward the Qimeng Mountain Range.
• Yan Liwei sealed his cave with formation talismans, while Xiao Hua’s incantation let him sense activity beyond his cave.
• Xiao Hua followed Yan Liwei underground and saw him leave a talisman in a tree, but found no one else at the site during the night.
• Cai Zhuoxia changed their route again, and Yan Liwei watched her coldly; Xiao Hua saw no sign of Yan Liwei sneaking out that night.

Xiao Hua warned Cai Zhuoxia that Yan Liwei had secretly left their camp, and she pretended to lead him to the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit’s location in the Qimeng Mountain Range. Yan Liwei exposed his suspicion and attacked the stone wall, then trapped Cai Zhuoxia and Xiao Hua as two newcomers arrived.

• Xiao Hua sensed Yan Liwei escaping underground and told Cai Zhuoxia that he had left the camp again.
• Cai Zhuoxia checked Yan Liwei’s cave, found it empty, and grew wary, but Yan Liwei returned before she could question Xiao Hua further.
• The group traveled to a secluded ravine in the Qimeng Mountain Range, where Cai Zhuoxia repeatedly tried and failed to open a hidden entrance.
• Yan Liwei blasted the stone wall with a Fireball Talisman and demanded to see Cai Zhuoxia’s record of the spirit fruit’s location.
• Xiao Hua warned Cai Zhuoxia that cultivators were approaching, but Yan Liwei trapped them both with a Fire Net Talisman as two crude voices called out to him.

Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia escaped Yan Liwei and the Pilan Twin Bears when Xiao Hua realized Cai Zhuoxia’s spiritual power was slowing him down. After learning that Yan Liwei planned to search for the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit, Xiao Hua returned toward the stone wall while Cai Zhuoxia waited behind.

• Yan Liwei and the Pilan Twin Bears attacked Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia, but Xiao Hua evaded their talismans while carrying Cai Zhuoxia away.
• Cai Zhuoxia stopped circulating spiritual power at Xiao Hua’s urging, allowing him to accelerate and escape Yan Liwei’s flying sword.
• Yan Liwei and the Pilan Twin Bears discussed Xiao Hua’s unusual speed and decided to investigate his identity and search the suspected Mother-Child Spirit Fruit location.
• Cai Zhuoxia worried that her family would suffer for offending the Yan Family and that Yan Liwei might find the fruit’s location.
• Xiao Hua told Cai Zhuoxia to wait and flew back toward the stone wall to check whether Yan Liwei and the Pilan Twin Bears had left.

Xiao Hua ambushed and killed Yan Liwei, then pursued the fleeing Pilan Twin Bears, killing one with Fireball Talismans. The other vanished into the forest but soon burst out again with a goshawk behind him, charging toward Xiao Hua.

• Yan Liwei used a talisman and a holed object to inspect the blocked cleft, while Xiao Hua approached underground with an Earth Evasion Talisman.
• Xiao Hua burst from the ground and stabbed Yan Liwei with the demonic spear tip, killing him despite being wounded by Yan Liwei's Ice Spike Talismans.
• The Pilan Twin Bears split up and fled, and Xiao Hua chased the one heading toward the outskirts of the Qimeng Mountain Range.
• Xiao Hua killed the fleeing Pilan Twin Bear with repeated Fireball Talismans, then pursued the other into the forest but lost his trail.
• As Xiao Hua turned back, a goshawk rose from the forest with the remaining Pilan Twin Bear ahead of it, and the Pilan Twin Bear charged straight at him.

Xiao Hua was caught between a Foundation Establishment goshawk and a tiny mouse carrying its baby, and he fought desperately to escape their pursuit. He disappeared underground with an Earth Evasion Talisman, but the goshawk tracked him from above.

• The goshawk tore the Pilan Twin Bears apart and chased the tiny yellow mouse that emerged from their back.
• Xiao Hua fled, but the mouse caught up and clung to his back while trying to evade the goshawk.
• Xiao Hua blocked the goshawk's talons with his demon spear and used his movement technique to dodge and counterattack.
• Xiao Hua activated an Earth Evasion Talisman and vanished underground, but the goshawk followed overhead, tracking his movements with divine sense.

Xiao Hua escaped Heaven-Shaking Azure with a baby Spirit Seeking Rat, then reunited with Cai Zhuoxia and returned with her to the hidden Mother-Child Spirit Fruit site. After waiting three days, they found the remains of Yan Liwei and the Pilan Twin Bears, and Cai Zhuoxia led Xiao Hua to the stream passage.

• Xiao Hua's Earth Evasion Talismans ran out, and a Spirit Seeking Rat left its baby with him before drawing Heaven-Shaking Azure's attention away.
• Xiao Hua escaped with the baby rat and placed it safely in his space, where its tail finally released his finger.
• Xiao Hua met Cai Zhuoxia at the mountain's foot and told her Yan Liwei and the Pilan Twin Bears might have perished fighting each other or Heaven-Shaking Azure.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia waited three days before returning to the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit site, where they found bloodstained robes and storage pouches but no bodies.
• Cai Zhuoxia led Xiao Hua to the stream and explained that breaking open the cliff walls would reveal the passage to the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit.

Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia failed to open the stone wall passage leading to the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit, so they cultivated nearby while searching for another way. After several months, Xiao Hua reached the peak of the Qi Cultivation third layer, and the two returned to the wall to see whether he could break its restriction.

• Cai Zhuoxia used array talismans to try to open the stone wall, but her magic power was insufficient to break the restriction.
• Xiao Hua tried to move the wall by brute force, but the restriction made him slip; Cai Zhuoxia warned that damaging the array could destroy the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit.
• Cai Zhuoxia proposed asking her younger sister, Fairy Hongxia, to help, but they could not be sure she had emerged from seclusion, so they chose to cultivate nearby.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia spent several months cultivating, and Xiao Hua advanced to the peak of the Qi Cultivation third layer while Cai Zhuoxia made no progress.
• Cai Zhuoxia asked Xiao Hua to leave seclusion and said she planned to return to Luyang to find her younger sister; Xiao Hua proposed trying the stone wall again before she departed.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia returned to the stone wall, where Xiao Hua prepared to test whether he could break its restriction.

Xiao Hua broke the restriction guarding the passage to the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit and entered the hidden grove with Cai Zhuoxia. As they searched for the single ripe fruit, a Leopard-patterned Dragonfly chased Cai Zhuoxia toward Xiao Hua.

• Xiao Hua used Cai Zhuoxia’s array talismans to break the stone wall’s restriction, then led her through the cave passage.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia found a grove of Mother-Child Spirit Fruit plants, and Cai Zhuoxia explained that only one plant bore a ripe fruit at a time, with ten years between harvests.
• Xiao Hua proposed splitting the Fetal Breath Pills sixty-forty in favor of whoever found the ripe fruit, then secretly used his puppet to transplant the plants into his space.
• Cai Zhuoxia cried out while searching, and Xiao Hua saw her fleeing from a Leopard-patterned Dragonfly, the fruit grove’s guardian Spirit Beast.

Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia escaped the cave after Xiao Hua broke the restriction protecting the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit and collected the fruit. Once they reached safety, Xiao Hua offered it to Cai Zhuoxia, but she asked him to keep it until they found an alchemist to refine the Fetal Breath Pill.

• Cai Zhuoxia lured the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly away from Xiao Hua, but it pierced her back with an ice spike before she escaped again.
• Xiao Hua found a ripe Mother-Child Spirit Fruit, broke its restriction with the demonic spear tip, and stored it along with the fruit his puppet had gathered.
• Xiao Hua evaded the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly and fled the cave with Cai Zhuoxia, while the creature remained behind as another golden glimmer appeared on a fruit.
• Several days later, Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia reached safety far from the Qimeng Mountain Range and recalled escaping the Leopard-patterned Dragonfly and a Fire Cloud Finch.
• Xiao Hua offered Cai Zhuoxia the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit, but she refused it and asked him to keep it until she found an alchemist; Xiao Hua agreed and said he had an idea.

Xiao Hua emerged from seclusion after two months having reached the early Qi Cultivation fourth layer, and he and Cai Zhuoxia set out for the Xunyan Sect to seek a Fetal Breath Pill. Meanwhile, a masked cultivator discovered that the Mother-Child Spirit Fruits had been taken and blamed Li Zongbao for ruining his long-awaited plan.

• Cai Zhuoxia explained that an eleventh-layer Qi Cultivation disciple of the Xunyan Sect might help them find an alchemist to refine a Fetal Breath Pill, and Xiao Hua agreed to seek Zhuo Qingyuan's help after his retreat.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia entered secluded cultivation, and Cai Zhuoxia left for the Cai Family of Luyang after a little over two months, intending to return with the items she had obtained at Hundred Zhang Peak.
• Xiao Hua emerged and caught up with Cai Zhuoxia, who was astonished to learn he had advanced to the early Qi Cultivation fourth layer.
• Cai Zhuoxia agreed to accompany Xiao Hua to the Xunyan Sect, and Xiao Hua asked whether the Mother-Child Spirit Fruit had uses beyond making Fetal Breath Pills.
• A masked cultivator entered the hidden space in the Qimeng Mountain Range, found the Mother-Child Spirit Fruits gone, and accused Li Zongbao of ruining his plans by taking and transplanting them.

Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia traveled toward the Xunyan Sect and encountered young Cultivation family disciples, including Yun Zichong of the Xu Yanyun Family. Yun Zichong asked whether Cai Zhuoxia’s sister had come for the Huanhua Sect’s recruitment, leaving Cai Zhuoxia surprised to learn that the sect was recruiting disciples.

• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia flew toward the Xunyan Sect while discussing cultivation and the Cultivation World of Xi Country.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia repeatedly encountered groups of unusually young, handsome Cultivation family disciples along their route.
• Cai Zhuoxia recognized Yun Zichong of the Xu Yanyun Family and explained that his family was known as the powerful southern counterpart to the Qingyang Cai Family.
• Yun Lan insulted Cai Zhuoxia and her sister Fairy Hongxia, and Yun Zichong sent Yun Lan away and apologized to Cai Zhuoxia.
• Yun Zichong asked whether Cai Zhuoxia’s sister had come for the Huanhua Sect’s disciple recruitment, and Cai Zhuoxia said she knew nothing about it.

Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia learned that Huanhua Sect would select three direct disciples, one of whom could inherit a Golden Core elder’s teachings, while traveling toward Xunyan Sect. They reached the sect’s vicinity, where they had to land and continue to its Reception Pavilion because flying was forbidden within a hundred li.

• Yun Zichong told Cai Zhuoxia and Xiao Hua that Huanhua Sect’s selection would admit only cultivators at the fourth Qi Cultivation layer or higher, and that three would become direct disciples, with one inheriting a Golden Core elder’s mantle.
• Yun Zichong invited Cai Zhuoxia to travel with him to the selection, but she declined, saying her younger sister was better qualified and she had other matters to attend to.
• Cai Zhuoxia explained that her family had rejected Yun Zichong’s marriage proposal because the Qingyang Cai Family had ordered them not to marry into the Xu Yanyun Family, hoping to reserve him for a direct female disciple.
• Xiao Hua and Cai Zhuoxia continued their journey and reached Xunyan Sect five days later, where Xiao Hua marveled at the dense spiritual energy and the sect’s distant radiance.
• Cai Zhuoxia told Xiao Hua that visitors had to land because flying was forbidden within a hundred li of Xunyan Sect, and that they must wait at the Reception Pavilion.