Recaps

Xiao Hua met the Villa Master of Burial Flower Villa and sought Sky Yin Grass for Xue Xue, explaining her Misty Mountain bloodline and their journey. The Villa Master tested Xiao Hua, questioned him about Xie Zhiqian’s words, and ended by teasing him about eloping with his junior sister.

• The Villa Master revealed that she was a Golden Core Mid-stage cultivator and ordered Chun Kui to take the qin and Qiu Zan to light incense.
• Xiao Hua told the Villa Master that he sought Sky Yin Grass to help Xue Xue awaken her hidden lightning-element bloodline and establish her foundation.
• Xiao Hua compared Misty Mountain unfavorably with Burial Flower Villa, prompting the Villa Master to challenge his assumptions and threaten him with her magical power.
• Xiao Hua defended himself with the Earth Shield Technique and a protective magic treasure, then showed the Villa Master his Thunder Control Sect identity token.
• The Villa Master pressed Xiao Hua to repeat Xie Zhiqian’s words about Sky Yin Grass, and Xiao Hua recounted their encounter in Yanlin Mountain Marsh.
• After Xiao Hua mentioned traveling with his junior sister for a Foundation Establishment trial, the Villa Master accused him of eloping with her.

Xiao Hua tried to learn where the Sky Yin Grass could be found by offering his protective magic treasure to Chen Yi of Burial Flower Villa. Chen Yi sent the others away and asked him to recount what he knew about the Thunder Control Sect, especially the Feathered Immortal Convention, leaving Xiao Hua with no answer about the grass yet.

• Xiao Hua told Chen Yi that he had come seeking the Sky Yin Grass for Xue Xue and offered his protective magic treasure in exchange.
• Chen Yi revealed that neither Xie Zhiqian nor the Sky Yin Grass was at Burial Flower Villa, then asked Xiao Hua about his life in the Thunder Control Sect.
• Chen Yi promised to tell Xiao Hua where the Sky Yin Grass was if he shared what he had seen and heard in the sect.
• Xiao Hua recounted how he and Xue Xue entered the Thunder Control Sect, then described the Feathered Immortal Convention and Gen Qing's role in it.
• Chen Yi questioned Xiao Hua about Gen Qing's cultivation and criticized him for sharing his core-formation insights with Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua gave Chen Yi Gen Qing’s core-condensing insights in exchange for information about the Sky Yin Grass, but Chen Yi admitted she did not know its location. She said a planned expedition might find the herb and offered to trade it for Xiao Hua’s protective magic treasure, leaving him to wait for news or return to Burial Flower Villa.

• Xiao Hua erased the jade slip’s secret material and gave Chen Yi Gen Qing’s core-condensing insights, despite his promise to Gen Qing.
• Chen Yi kept the jade slip and gave Xiao Hua another jade slip containing insights that might help him condense his core.
• Chen Yi told Xiao Hua she did not know where the Sky Yin Grass was and that the expedition to search for it had not yet begun.
• Chen Yi explained that Xie Zhiqian had sought a final item at Yanlin Mountain Marsh and that preparations might have been complete four years earlier, though she did not know why there had been no news.
• Chen Yi promised to trade the Sky Yin Grass for Xiao Hua’s protective magic treasure if the expedition found it, and Xiao Hua agreed to wait for word or return after his training journey.

Xiao Hua drank Burial Flower Villa’s Snow Jin Wine and gained half a month’s worth of cultivation, but Chen Yi soon learned that the Youth-Preserving Grass had been contaminated by poisonous saliva. Suspecting Xiao Hua, she had him guarded and then summoned him to Mu Jing Yuan for questioning, leaving him to follow Senior Sister Peach Blossom into a maze-like bamboo forest.

• Chen Yi offered Xiao Hua three cups of Snow Jin Wine, which he refined and found equivalent to half a month of arduous cultivation.
• Chun Kui reported that the Youth-Preserving Grass seemed to have been contaminated by poisonous saliva, and Chen Yi struck and threatened her over the loss.
• Chen Yi suspected Xiao Hua, ordered Xia Lan to have him watched, and sent him to a small pavilion under guard.
• After half an hour, two female cultivators escorted Xiao Hua to Mu Jing Yuan, where Senior Sister Peach Blossom checked his token and opened a path through the bamboo forest.
• Xiao Hua followed Senior Sister Peach Blossom through the maze-like forest and entered a slender bamboo stalk that appeared to conceal the way forward.

Xiao Hua was brought before Chen Yi after someone poisoned Burial Flower Villa’s Youth-Preserving Grass, and Chen Yi questioned him about Sun Qian. As the elders struggled to find a cure, Xiao Hua considered using a secret method he knew, while Chen Yi turned her attention to Chun Kui.

• Tao Hua led Xiao Hua through Mu Jing Yuan to Chen Yi’s medicinal garden, where poisoned Youth-Preserving Grass and a dead female cultivator lay.
• Chen Yi asked Xiao Hua whether he knew Sun Qian, and Xiao Hua denied it and swore a heart oath.
• Xiao Hua identified the plants as Youth-Preserving Grass, and Chen Yi asked whether he had consumed any as a rogue cultivator.
• Elder Mu reported that mixed beast venom had poisoned the grasses and that the elders had less than a ten percent chance of detoxifying them.
• Chen Yi ordered the elders to keep studying the poison, while Xiao Hua considered using his Poison Cleansing Secret Method on the plants.
• Dong Jin removed the dead cultivator’s body, and Chen Yi turned toward Chun Kui.

Chen Yi threatened Chun Kui and Xiao Hua after poisonous saliva infected the Youth-Preserving Grass, but the elders’ treatment failed. Xiao Hua used Green Python venom and his secret method to cure the remaining four stalks, earning Chen Yi’s gratitude and leaving the garden to recover.

• Chun Kui begged Chen Yi to spare the Spring Department servants after the Youth-Preserving Grass was poisoned.
• Xiao Hua offered to use his secret poison-against-poison method, but Chen Yi initially refused to let him experiment.
• Elder Mu and the other elders treated a stalk with jade fluid, but their method worsened the poison and the grass began to die.
• Chen Yi ordered Xiao Hua to try, and he used Green Python venom to cure the first stalk of Youth-Preserving Grass.
• Xiao Hua cured the other three stalks, and Elder Mu confirmed that the grass should recover after a few days.
• Chen Yi credited Xiao Hua for making amends and ordered Chun Kui to remove the dead grass before she reactivated the formation.

Xiao Hua helped Chen Yi deal with the poisoned Youth-Preserving Grass and negotiated with her over his poison-countering secret method in exchange for the Sky Yin Grass. Chen Yi then received Zhu Chenghe, whose arrival might relate to an operation that could help her obtain the herb, but she stopped Xiao Hua as he tried to leave.

• Chen Yi let Xiao Hua take the dead Youth-Preserving Grass, though Chun Kui handed him only its portion above the soil.
• Chen Yi finished working in the bamboo grove and returned to Linlang Pavilion with Xiao Hua, where she rewarded him with three cups of spirit wine for saving the grass.
• Xiao Hua asked Chen Yi to notify him if she found the Sky Yin Grass, and she proposed trading the herb for his secret method of using poison against poison.
• Xiao Hua agreed to give Chen Yi the secret method in advance, while she urged him to stay at Burial Flower Villa until she found the herb.
• Chen Yi sensed Zhu Chenghe's arrival and said his visit might concern an operation that could lead to the Sky Yin Grass.
• Chen Yi told Xiao Hua to wait rather than leave, then called him back as he was departing Linlang Pavilion.

Xiao Hua secured Chun Kui’s gratitude by asking for discarded spirit-herb seeds, while Chen Yi assumed his unusual interest came from his rogue cultivator upbringing. Chen Yi then met Zhu Chenghe, who revealed that the expedition’s final item had been found and the group was ready to set out, but kept its destination and purpose secret.

• Xiao Hua gave Chen Yi the secret technique on a jade slip, and she left to receive Zhu Chenghe of the Xuyan Sect.
• Chun Kui thanked Xiao Hua for protecting the Spring Division and offered him spirit herbs, but he asked instead for Burial Flower Villa’s unwanted seeds and withered herbs.
• Chen Yi and Chun Kui discussed Xiao Hua’s request, and Chen Yi decided to give him the useless seeds because she believed his habits came from poverty.
• Chen Yi invited Zhu Chenghe to Linlang Pavilion, where they drank wine and discussed the expedition.
• Zhu Chenghe told Chen Yi that the final item had been found four years earlier and their preparations were sufficient, but he refused to reveal more about the destination.

Xiao Hua studied Huang Yi’s Thousand Threads, Ten Thousand Connections technique but decided against the dangerous attempt to split his mind. Chun Kui delivered Burial Flower Villa’s accumulated discarded items, leaving Xiao Hua delighted by what he found in the storage bag.

• Xiao Hua inspected his growing inner space and reflected on the Heavenly Dao Starry Sky and the Karma Incantation.
• Xiao Hua studied Huang Yi’s Thousand Threads, Ten Thousand Connections technique and learned that its clones were each the original ghost.
• Xiao Hua rejected the risk of splitting his mind and chose to study the technique without using it for now.
• Chun Kui told Xiao Hua that no other seniors had visited Burial Flower Villa and handed him the villa’s accumulated discarded items.
• Xiao Hua thanked Chun Kui, waited until she had left, and discovered that the storage bag brought him great joy.

Xiao Hua planted the seeds and bamboo he found, then continued cultivating and studying his techniques. In the Northern Desert, True Person Liukong survived a swarm of Desert Scorpions and met Fairy Yingzhuo at Xunyunzi’s rendezvous, where Xunyunzi announced he had one piece of good news and one bad.

• Xiao Hua planted the discarded seeds and Xianglan Bamboos in his space, set aside the Youth-Preserving Grass roots, and continued refining Earth Crystal Yao Ru while pondering Soul Thorn.
• True Person Liukong arrived in the Northern Desert and was attacked by Desert Scorpions that swarmed from the sand.
• True Person Liukong killed the scorpions near him and struck down a black creature that attacked from beneath the sand before flying away.
• Fairy Yingzhuo arrived, and she and True Person Liukong realized Xunyunzi had invited them both to the same meeting.
• Xunyunzi joined them, explained that he had chosen the location years earlier and had not expected the scorpions to appear, then offered them one good piece of news and one bad.

Xunyunzi delivered the completed Python Dragon Pills to Fairy Yingzhuo and True Person Liukong, who saw that the pills could improve their chances of reaching Spirit Transformation. The three cultivators then discussed troubling changes in spiritual energy and the rise of new forces, leaving their sects’ future unresolved.

• Xunyunzi gave Fairy Yingzhuo and True Person Liukong the Python Dragon Pills he had refined.
• Fairy Yingzhuo and True Person Liukong inspected the pills and concluded that their unusual transformation from python to dragon could greatly improve their chances of reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Fairy Yingzhuo asked Xunyunzi whether he had found the white python’s escaped soul, and he said his search had failed.
• Xunyunzi warned that changes in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi threatened the future of their three sects.
• Fairy Yingzhuo pointed to weaker recruits, awakening cultivation-family bloodlines, and the growth of demonic cultivators as signs of change.
• True Person Liukong argued that changing how the sects selected disciples would be enough to preserve their standing.

Xunyunzi, Fairy Yingzhuo, and True Person Liukong discussed how aberrant Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi could threaten cultivation and agreed to divide Xi Kingdom’s spirit stone veins among their sects and others. Meanwhile, Xiao Hua studied the Soul Thorn and worried about Chen Yi, who was meeting with Qiang Yuefeng and others to discuss a journey that seemed short on support.

• Xunyunzi warned Fairy Yingzhuo and True Person Liukong that the Spiritual Qi aberration could undermine cultivation and even block the path to immortality.
• Xunyunzi proposed dividing Xi Kingdom’s spirit stone veins among their three sects and allocating portions to other sects, and Fairy Yingzhuo and True Person Liukong agreed.
• Xunyunzi, Fairy Yingzhuo, and True Person Liukong left as a gigantic Desert Scorpion emerged where True Person Liukong had slain one earlier.
• Xiao Hua gained insight into the Soul Thorn while worrying that Chen Yi might delay his reunion with Xue Xue and that his cultivation was insufficient to face Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi hosted Qiang Yuefeng, Zhu Chenghe, and Xie Zhiqian at Linlang Pavilion, where Qiang Yuefeng questioned whether their group of four was enough for the planned journey.

Zhu Chenghe, Xie Zhiqian, Qiang Yuefeng, and Chen Yi discussed preparations for entering a dangerous, secret contest site and whether to bring Xiao Hua, a Thunder Control Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator. Zhu feared Xiao Hua could alert his sect, while Chen Yi began explaining that Xiao Hua came from a Rogue Cultivator background and had only a late Foundation Establishment master.

• Qiang Yuefeng agreed to enter the dangerous land but insisted they discuss every possible precaution first.
• Xie Zhiqian said his sect’s records supported Zhu Chenghe’s account and revealed that he had hoped to recruit Zhen Ye for his superior flying speed.
• Chen Yi revealed that Zhen Ye had died and that his martial nephew Xiao Hua had come to Burial Flower Villa seeking Sky Yin Grass.
• Xie Zhiqian, Zhu Chenghe, and Qiang Yuefeng questioned whether Xiao Hua could help them, while Zhu warned that his Thunder Control Sect ties could expose their plan.
• Chen Yi began arguing that Xiao Hua was unlikely to pose a threat, saying he came from a Rogue Cultivator background and had a late Foundation Establishment master.

Chen Yi and the other Golden Core cultivators summoned Xiao Hua and made his participation in the search for Sky Yin Grass depend on whether he knew the Lightning Evasion Technique. Xiao Hua demonstrated his Zhe Lei Evasion, passed their test, and was approved to join the expedition.

• Chen Yi and the others decided to summon Xiao Hua and test whether his Lightning Evasion Technique could help them obtain Sky Yin Grass.
• Xiao Hua told the cultivators that he had practiced Zhe Lei Evasion but had not mastered it, and agreed to join if they would protect him.
• Zhu Chenghe demanded a demonstration, and Xie Zhiqian attacked Xiao Hua with a flying sword while Xiao Hua fled using Zhe Lei Evasion.
• Xiao Hua's evasion kept him ahead of the sword, though he remained within Linlang Pavilion's formation and pretended to be astonished by it.
• Qiang Yuefeng and Chen Yi supported Xiao Hua's participation, and Zhu Chenghe agreed to let him go.

Xiao Hua joined Chen Yi, Zhu Chenghe, Qiang Yuefeng, and Xie Zhiqian on a secret journey after preparing for departure. The group headed toward Mo Ran Black Forest, leaving Xiao Hua alarmed by the danger of their destination.

• Xiao Hua suspected the others planned to use him to test dangers on the journey, so he practiced the Soul Thorn technique while waiting to depart.
• Chen Yi summoned Xiao Hua, and the group left Burial Flower Villa aboard Zhu Chenghe's concealed flying boat.
• Sun Qian emerged from a boulder, saw the group depart, and fled after wondering whether Chen Yi had set a trap for her.
• Zhu Chenghe told Xiao Hua the group was traveling to Mo Ran Black Forest, and Xiao Hua reacted with alarm at the place's reputation.

Xiao Hua and the others arrived at a mountain range where Shanghua Sect forces were driving out Luolu Mountain cultivators. They learned that Shanghua Sect was seizing a spirit stone mine, and the flying boat party was left free to go after the fighting ended.

• Xiao Hua studied the jade slip Gen Qing had given him and practiced Soul Stab for several days before the flying boat stopped.
• Xiao Hua and his companions saw Shanghua Sect cultivators battling Luolu Mountain disciples near the Mo Ran Black Forest, where wood-attributed spiritual qi was unusually abundant.
• Shanghua Sect’s formation overwhelmed the Luolu Mountain forces, and Cultivator Ming arrived to confront Cultivator Kong.
• Cultivator Kong declared that the spirit stone mine in the Liao Ming Mountain Range belonged to Shanghua Sect, and Cultivator Ming led his disciples away.
• The Shanghua Sect disciples descended into the mountain range, and the cultivators blocking the flying boat departed without further interference.

Zhu Chenghe, Chen Yi, and the others discussed the Shanghua Sect’s seizure of a spirit stone mine as they traveled toward Mo Ran Black Forest. Chen Yi revealed a hidden path into the forest, and the group reached its entrance, where the path stopped at the boundary.

• Zhu Chenghe, Chen Yi, and Qiang Yuefeng speculated that other sects might also be seeking to seize spirit stone mines.
• As the group neared Mo Ran Black Forest, Chen Yi offered to reveal a hidden path in exchange for a larger share, and Zhu Chenghe agreed to give her half of his share.
• Chen Yi used a jade spoon to summon a tiny jade maiden that led the group toward the forest while Xiao Hua guarded against danger.
• Xiao Hua sensed the forest’s darkness slowing the flow of his true essence, though the black substances had little effect on him and gathered around the Earth Crystal Yao Ru in his meridians.
• Chen Yi stopped the jade maiden at the forest’s boundary and told Zhu Chenghe that they had reached the hidden path.

Xiao Hua and the others entered the Mo Ran Black Forest through a fragile hidden passage, protected from the Ink Sand by magic artifacts and Chen Yi’s feather gauze. As they traveled deeper, Zhu Chenghe began explaining that they had come seeking Sword Immortal remains and introduced Xiao Hua to the origins of sword cultivation.

• Zhu Chenghe, Xie Zhiqian, and the others used protective magic artifacts against the Ink Sand, while Chen Yi lent Xiao Hua a feather gauze garment.
• Chen Yi led the group into a winding hidden passage above the forest floor and warned them not to draw too much spiritual energy or destroy its fragile boundary.
• Xiao Hua used his Dharma Eye to see the faint passage through the Ink Sand as the group flew deeper into the forest.
• Qiang Yuefeng revealed that the group had come for Sword Immortal remains, and Zhu Chenghe agreed to explain the matter during their journey.
• Zhu Chenghe explained the distinction between sword cultivators and Daoist cultivators, including their reliance on flying swords.

Xiao Hua learned from Zhu Chenghe and Chen Yi about True Person Mingjian’s victories over Huanguo’s sword cultivators and the secret duel he arranged with Li Xiubai. The account ended after Mingjian’s Nascent Soul projection reported that the duel was over without revealing its result, and his Life Spirit Tablet shattered.

• Zhu Chenghe explained that True Person Mingjian of the Changbai Sect had defeated Huanguo sword cultivators in nine consecutive battles.
• Chen Yi and Zhu Chenghe recounted how Li Xiubai cultivated nine Spirit Swords and challenged Mingjian after returning from Million Meng Mountain.
• Mingjian welcomed Li Xiubai to the Changbai Sect, and the two disappeared after announcing they would duel in secret.
• Mingjian’s disciple received a message from his secret communication array after Mingjian’s Life Spirit Tablet shattered.
• Mingjian’s Nascent Soul projection told the Changbai Sect master and a Yanzhu Sword Sect elder that the duel had ended, but revealed nothing about its result.

Zhu Chenghe explained that the cultivators were seeking the remains and ten flying swords of True Person Mingjian and Li Xiubai in Mo Ran Black Forest, and revealed that he needed help investigating a strange place where Sky Yin Grass might grow. When a pursued cultivator drew two Mo Ran toward them, the group left their hiding place and prepared to face the beasts.

• Zhu Chenghe, Qiang Yuefeng, and Xie Zhiqian told Xiao Hua how True Person Mingjian and Li Xiubai had died together and how the search for their swords had led cultivators to Mo Ran Black Forest.
• Zhu Chenghe explained that he and the others sought the ten flying swords, the two seniors’ remains, and their storage bags, and said Sky Yin Grass might be found at their destination.
• A distant cultivator’s divine sense swept over the group, and Zhu Chenghe realized the cultivator was luring Mo Ran toward them.
• Chen Yi urged the group to leave the hidden path, and Zhu Chenghe led them out into the forest, where its crushing force weighed Xiao Hua down.
• The group hid among the black trees as a pale-green-robed cultivator fled past, pursued by two enormous Mo Ran.
• One Mo Ran unleashed a mass of swirling black qi at the fleeing cultivator, and Xiao Hua sensed that the attack drew in the forest’s strange black matter.

Zhu Chenghe, Chen Yi, Qiang Yuefeng, and Xie Zhiqian fought two Ink Sand Pythons in the black forest after one fleeing cultivator diverted an attack toward Zhu Chenghe. The pythons’ venom damaged Xie Zhiqian’s flying sword, and the beasts began to flee.

• A fleeing cultivator used his lotus-shaped treasure to block an Ink Sand Python’s attack, then redirected the air mass toward Zhu Chenghe.
• Zhu Chenghe’s golden sword light held back the air mass, and Chen Yi’s flower-petal swords pierced it before it burst into black spheres.
• Zhu Chenghe urged Chen Yi, Qiang Yuefeng, and Xie Zhiqian to fight the two Ink Sand Pythons together; the fleeing cultivator escaped while smashing the scattered spheres with wooden staff shadows.
• Chen Yi attacked one python with flower-shaped sword light, while Qiang Yuefeng swung his enormous sword at it and Xie Zhiqian sent his flying sword toward the other python’s eye.
• The pythons counterattacked with black air and venom; the venom corroded Xie Zhiqian’s flying sword, and Zhu Chenghe used two balls of light to shield him.
• After their attacks failed against the four cultivators, the Ink Sand Pythons flapped their wings and began to flee.

Chen Yi and the others failed to capture the Ink Serpents, then fled as a rare Ink Storm swept through the Mo Ran Black Forest. Xiao Hua took a different route and fought off the short, fat Golden Core cultivator who had lured the serpents over, leaving the man reeling from a sudden attack on his mind.

• Chen Yi trapped the Ink Serpents with her pink veil, but they escaped into the ground using Earth Evasion.
• Zhu Chenghe warned that an Ink Storm was approaching and gave Chen Yi, Qiang Yuefeng, Xie Zhiqian, and Xiao Hua jade slips before they fled.
• Xiao Hua saw the Ink Storm swallow cultivators and beasts, then chose a separate route to avoid revealing his full speed.
• The short, fat Golden Core cultivator demanded Xiao Hua's storage pouch and attacked him when Xiao Hua refused.
• Xiao Hua evaded the cultivator's Great Restraint Technique with protective radiance and Earth Condensation Technique, then struck the man with a painful attack on his mind.

Xiao Hua stole a mysterious Witch Puppet from a Golden Core cultivator and escaped as the Ink Storm killed his pursuer. Realizing he had flown deeper into the Mo Ran Black Forest, he found that the Mo Ran were sheltering underground and decided to use the storm as cover to venture farther in.

• Xiao Hua grabbed the green Witch Puppet and the cultivator’s storage bags before fleeing.
• The Ink Storm overwhelmed the cultivator, and a black log struck him dead after his magical power failed.
• Xiao Hua realized he had veered toward the center of the Mo Ran Black Forest and could not outrun the storm.
• Xiao Hua used Buddhist consciousness to find the Mo Ran curled beneath the ground, sheltered from the Ink Storm.
• Xiao Hua burrowed underground, then decided to venture deeper into the forest while its dangerous creatures remained hidden.

Xiao Hua escaped the Ink Storm by hiding underground behind the Rabbit Formation, where he examined the treasures taken from a cultivator swallowed by the storm. He discovered Green Seal writing on giant bones and learned the Witch Puppet's limitations, then wondered whether his Prajna Heavy Sword counted as a magical artifact within the Five Elements.

• Xiao Hua flew ahead of the Ink Storm, then burrowed deep underground and activated the Rabbit Formation to shield himself from the falling Ink Sand.
• Xiao Hua inspected the Witch Puppet and the cultivator's storage bags, finding damaged artifacts, jade slips, and two enormous bones but no spirit stones or medicines.
• Xiao Hua burned the bones with Samadhi True Fire, revealing Green Seal characters that entered his mind before the bones joined the giant skeleton in his space.
• Xiao Hua observed that the thunder beast cub was still alive and that the poisoned Youth-Preserving Grass was recovering inside his space.
• Xiao Hua studied the Witch Puppet inheritance and learned it could only protect its refiner from a killing blow within certain limits.
• Xiao Hua considered the inheritance's distinction between magical artifacts within and outside the Five Elements and suspected his Prajna Heavy Sword fit the former category.

Xiao Hua searched the Ghost Cultivator's legacy for a way to refine the Prajna Heavy Sword and discovered the legendary Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff, though the legacy offered no instructions for making one. He successfully refined the Witch Puppet and, with the Ink Storm still raging outside, turned to cultivating the Soul Thorn.

• Xiao Hua learned that the Prajna Heavy Sword could not be refined by ordinary means and found no method for forging it in the Ghost Cultivator's legacy.
• Xiao Hua discovered the Five Elements As-You-Wish Heaven-Piercing Staff in the legacy but realized it could not tell him how to refine one.
• Xiao Hua used his Dharma Eye and soul silk to study the Witch Puppet's green seal script, then refined it with his essence blood.
• Xiao Hua hung the smiling Witch Puppet around his neck after confirming it could still be used.
• Xiao Hua observed that the Ink Storm had not subsided and began comprehending the Ghost Cultivator's Soul Thorn.