Recaps

Lin Shisan reunited with Hu Niu, his first wife, but refused her request for an embrace because he was already married to Zi Yuner and Bai Youyou. Their argument drew in a drunken Zi Yuner, Pang Yue, and finally Mu Ling'er, who teased Lin Shisan about his tangled romantic history.

• Hu Niu confronted Lin Shisan about their marriage in Tianshui Village and the five years he had left her without contact, then asked him to hold her.
• Lin Shisan stepped aside, saying an embrace would be unfair to Hu Niu and his two wives, and Hu Niu accused him of rejecting and abandoning her.
• Zi Yuner arrived drunk, recognized Hu Niu, and argued with her over whether Lin Shisan had abandoned his first wife.
• Zi Yuner's Sky Soaring Realm aura and Hu Niu's cold resilience made the onlookers retreat as the two women faced off.
• Pang Yue emerged and tried to calm Hu Niu and Zi Yuner, explaining that he was Hu Niu's guardian and Lin Shisan's old martial nephew.
• Mu Ling'er appeared at the tea stall and teased Lin Shisan about the gathering of his old sweetheart, new wife, and guardian.

Mu Ling'er lured Lin Shisan to Aunt Mei, who explained that Gai Jiuyou's seal was weakening and asked him to carry the Demon Venerable's dao seed into the Nine Yang Cauldron. Lin Shisan took the seed but remained unsure whether to help Gai Jiuyou escape sooner or risk a more devastating breakout later.

• Mu Ling'er admitted she had arranged for Hu Niu to be brought out so Lin Shisan would meet her, then told him Aunt Mei was waiting at the summit.
• Aunt Mei revealed that Mu Ling'er had taken the dao seed from Lin Shisan in the Heavenly Revelation Secret Realm to protect him and the seed from the Immortal Alliance's inspection.
• Aunt Mei asked Lin Shisan to deliver the dao seed into the Nine Yang Cauldron so Gai Jiuyou's true body could absorb it and have her soul repaired.
• Aunt Mei warned that the weakening seal would fail within three to five years and that Gai Jiuyou might slaughter the Danyang Sect if she escaped without the dao seed.
• Aunt Mei left the choice to Lin Shisan and reminded him that Nine Nether Mountain considered him a pawn, while promising Hu Niu would be cared for.
• Lin Shisan put the dao seed into his Storage Ring and watched Aunt Mei disappear, still uncertain of her motives.

Lin Shisan found Zi Yuner mourning a dead fish and learned she had sealed Pang Yue, Mu Ling'er, and Hu Niu in the mud for scheming against him. After hearing the fish’s tragic story of love and separation, Zi Yuner agreed to return with Lin Shisan and bury the three troublemakers together.

• Lin Shisan searched the mountain and found Zi Yuner crouched beside a creek, watching a dead silver-scaled fish.
• Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan she had sealed Pang Yue, Mu Ling'er, and Hu Niu beneath the Lotus Pond for seven days as punishment for scheming against him.
• Zi Yuner recounted how the silver-scaled fish’s mate left it for a red-scaled fish, then returned wounded and died after years apart.
• Lin Shisan took Zi Yuner’s hand and told her the fish had chosen to stay together in the end.
• Zi Yuner agreed to go back with Lin Shisan and bury Pang Yue, Mu Ling'er, and Hu Niu together.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner traveled to the Netherworld Palace to visit Bai Youyou, but its elders said she was in secluded cultivation and barred them from seeing her. After Zi Yuner led Lin Shisan into a hidden soul-confusing formation, they heard someone crying in the mist and followed the sound.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner buried the Silver-Scaled Fish and Red-Scaled Fish, then decided to visit Bai Youyou at the Netherworld Palace.
• Lin Shisan received Feng Xian'er’s permission to leave for up to ten days and flew south with Zi Yuner toward the palace.
• Lin Shisan used Bai Youyou’s Direction Pearl to find the concealed entrance at Thousand-Fathom Cliff.
• An old woman told Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner that Bai Youyou was in secluded cultivation and took them to wait in a side hall.
• At midnight, Zi Yuner sensed a hidden passage and led Lin Shisan into a soul-confusing formation that trapped them in a gray wasteland.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner heard someone crying in the mist and walked toward the sound.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner discovered that the Old Woman had trapped the Myriad Souls Banner’s artifact spirit and lured them into the Soul-Confusing Formation as sacrifices. They broke the formation and freed the spirit, whose banner’s ten thousand souls bowed to Lin Shisan.

• Lin Shisan recognized the chained Bai Youyou as a projection of the Myriad Souls Banner’s artifact spirit, and the Old Woman explained that she had used Bai Youyou’s aura to awaken it.
• The Old Woman revealed she had drugged Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner with Spirit-Guiding Powder so the banner could drain their spiritual power, and Zi Yuner attacked her but was blocked by the formation.
• Lin Shisan identified a weak point in the Soul-Confusing Formation, and Zi Yuner struck it with Hidden Dragon Emerges from the Sea, causing the formation to collapse.
• Lin Shisan used Chaos Space to break the artifact spirit’s chains and caught her as she fell, while the Old Woman was thrown into the rubble.
• The artifact spirit gathered the souls into the Myriad Souls Banner, and the ten thousand souls turned toward Lin Shisan and bowed.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner discovered that Nan Ji had seized the Netherworld Palace and was draining Bai Youyou’s soul to master the Myriad Souls Banner. They rescued Bai Youyou from the underground palace, where Lin Shisan destroyed the stone platform and faced Nan Ji and the Black-Robed Man.

• Lin Shisan realized the dead souls bowed to Gai Jiuyou within him, and he forced the old woman to explain the Netherworld Palace coup.
• The old woman revealed that Nan Ji had imprisoned Bai Youyou beneath the southern peak and was extracting her memories and cultivation to refine the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner followed the old woman to the underground palace and found Nan Ji draining Bai Youyou’s soul beside the Black-Robed Man.
• Zi Yuner struck down Nan Ji’s defense and blasted the Black-Robed Man away before breaking Bai Youyou’s chains and catching her.
• Lin Shisan smashed the black stone platform with the Little Black Cauldron, shattering its runes as Nan Ji and the Black-Robed Man faced him.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner rescued Bai Youyou, and Lin Shisan recovered the memories Nan Ji had stolen from her. Nan Ji died after confessing her jealousy, but her final message revealed that Bai Youyou’s master was imprisoned and had only two days left to live.

• Lin Shisan killed fifteen White-Robed Disciples with the Myriad Souls Banner, while Zi Yuner destroyed the fleeing Black-Robed Man.
• Lin Shisan extracted the memories Nan Ji had stolen from Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner returned them to Bai Youyou.
• Bai Youyou confronted Nan Ji, who admitted she had acted out of jealousy over Bai Youyou’s talent and position as Saintess.
• Bai Youyou told Nan Ji she had planned to give up the Saintess position, but Nan Ji destroyed herself before Lin Shisan could stop her.
• Nan Ji’s final message revealed that Bai Youyou’s master was imprisoned in a secret chamber and had two days left to live.

Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner rescued Bai Youyou’s former palace master from the underground labyrinth and learned that the three elders were imprisoned beneath the Myriad Souls Hall. They entered the Ice Prison, where a taunting message from Bai Youyou’s martial aunt awaited them.

• The Old Woman led Lin Shisan, Bai Youyou, and Zi Yuner through the underground labyrinth, and Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner to break its formations.
• Bai Youyou found her former palace master, and Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to remove the Soul-Locking Nail that was poisoning her.
• The former palace master revealed that the three elders were held in the Ice Prison and explained that the Myriad Souls Banner could absorb the prison’s Cold Baleful Formation.
• Lin Shisan followed the underground river with Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner, broke the runes sealing the Ice Prison, and entered through the fissure.
• The group found a message carved into the Ice Prison wall asking Bai Youyou whether she was pleased with her martial aunt’s gift.

Lin Shisan and the others rescued the three elders from the trapped Ice Prison as Nan Ji's master destroyed the Netherworld Palace with its Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation. A projection of the Old Purple Sky Dragon King protected the Ancestral Hall, but after it vanished, Zi Yuner rushed inside and attacked the empty hall.

• Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Bai Youyou freed the three elders while Lin Shisan and his Myriad Souls Banner suppressed the Ice Prison's defenses.
• Nan Ji's master detonated the Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation, setting the Netherworld Palace ablaze and causing its halls to collapse.
• The former palace master told Bai Youyou that Nan Ji's master had launched the destruction out of hatred over their master's inheritance of A Thought, Flowers Bloom.
• As fire threatened the Ancestral Hall, the Old Purple Sky Dragon King's projection used Nine Nether Flower Bloom to extinguish it and shield the hall.
• Zi Yuner recognized the figure as he looked at her, but he faded away before she could reach him, leaving a single green petal in her hand.
• Finding only the ancestral patriarch's statue inside, Zi Yuner cried out and struck the Ancestral Hall as the others begged her to stop.

Zi Yuner grieved after learning that the Nine Nether Flower Bloom was the last spiritual power the Purple Sky Dragon King had left behind, while Bai Youyou accepted leadership of the devastated Netherworld Palace. The old palace master died after entrusting the sect to Bai Youyou, who was formally recognized as its new palace master.

• Zi Yuner unleashed her fury on the ancestral hall, but Lin Shisan stopped her and caught her as she collapsed into tears.
• The old palace master explained that the green light was a seed planted by the Purple Sky Dragon King five hundred years earlier, and that its Nine Nether Flower Bloom had used up its final spiritual power.
• The old palace master asked Bai Youyou to serve as acting palace master until the Netherworld Palace recovered, and Bai Youyou agreed.
• The old palace master collapsed and died after entrusting the Netherworld Palace to Bai Youyou.
• The granduncle-master rallied the disciples, elders, deacons, and guardians to acknowledge Bai Youyou as palace master, and Bai Youyou told them to rise.

After the Netherworld Palace’s destruction, Lin Shisan comforted Zi Yuner as she mourned her father, then shared a night of wine with her and Bai Youyou. The next morning, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner departed by Cloud Boat, leaving Bai Youyou behind to tend the mourning shelter.

• Lin Shisan reassured Zi Yuner that her father’s petal had been a final act of protection, and Zi Yuner finally cried against his shoulder.
• Bai Youyou thanked Zi Yuner for the Nine Nether Flower Bloom that had protected the Netherworld Palace’s survivors, and they agreed to drink together.
• Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner drew close to Lin Shisan over wine, and the three spent the night together in the side hall.
• The next morning, Bai Youyou tidied the mourning shelter and promised Lin Shisan she would wait for him, while she promised Zi Yuner better wine when they met again.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner left aboard the Cloud Boat, and Zi Yuner tucked her withered petal away as they flew from the ruined Netherworld Palace.

Lin Shisan returned to the Danyang Sect and met Elder Qingming, who inspected the weakening seal on the Nine Yang Cauldron. Lin Shisan decided to enter secluded cultivation in the Nine Yang Pavilion for three days, though he would not tell Feng Xian'er what he suspected until he had confirmed it.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner returned to Cold Moon Peak after Feng Xian'er summoned them over the Immortal Alliance's arrival.
• Feng Xian'er told Lin Shisan that Elder Qingming had come to inspect the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal and meet the Saint Child.
• Elder Qingming used the Demon-Sealing Mirror to examine the Nine Yang Cauldron and found its killing intent faint and its golden runes moving more slowly.
• Lin Shisan explained that the seal had naturally weakened because the Danyang Sect's reinforcements could not keep pace with its wear, and Qingming said he would report his findings to the Immortal Alliance Council of Elders.
• After Qingming left, Lin Shisan told Feng Xian'er he wanted to cultivate in seclusion in the Nine Yang Pavilion for three days, while keeping his suspicions to himself until he had confirmed them.

Lin Shisan entered the Nine Yang Pavilion and returned Gai Jiuyou's Dao seed to the Nine Yang Cauldron, helping her regain strength despite the risks to the Danyang Sect. Before her projection faded, Gai Jiuyou hinted that someone Lin Shisan knew had been involved in the seal against her, promising to explain next time.

• Feng Xian'er warned Lin Shisan to remember that life was the foundation of everything before he entered the Nine Yang Pavilion.
• Lin Shisan met Gai Jiuyou's remnant soul and learned that Mei Erni had used some of the Dao seed's origin power to repair her own Dao foundation.
• Lin Shisan asked whether Gai Jiuyou would become an enemy of the Danyang Sect, then placed the Dao seed in the Nine Yang Cauldron.
• The Nine Yang Cauldron's runes went dark and a crack spread as Gai Jiuyou's projection became solid enough to last for a quarter of an hour.
• Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan that someone he might know had been behind the old seal, but she faded before naming them.
• Lin Shisan left the pavilion and followed Feng Xian'er back toward Cold Moon Peak for Yan'er's soup.

Lin Shisan met with Gu Canghai, who warned him that a secret report accused someone in the Danyang Sect of plotting to break the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal and offered the Gu Household's protection. Gu Mengli later gave Lin Shisan clues about a hidden back door in the seal, leaving him with new information as the Immortal Alliance's inspection approached.

• Feng Xian'er told Lin Shisan that the Immortal Alliance would send Qingming to reinforce the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal in half a month and that Gu Canghai had invited him to the Gu Household's medicinal herb garden.
• Gu Canghai told Lin Shisan that a secret report accused someone in the Danyang Sect of planning to release Demon Venerable Gai Jiuyou and asked whether Lin Shisan had dealings with Nine Nether Mountain.
• Lin Shisan admitted meeting Nine Nether Mountain members but said the encounters were forced, and he questioned the report's convenient timing; Gu Canghai accepted his point and gave him a Jade Talisman promising the Gu Household's aid.
• Gu Mengli gave Lin Shisan old records revealing that Patriarch Tianjizi had left a back door in the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal, though its location and opening method were unclear.
• Zi Yuner told Lin Shisan that Gu Mengli cared about him and said she would accept that as long as Gu Mengli treated him well.

Lin Shisan learned how the hidden door in the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal could be opened, then helped the Formation Hall temporarily reinforce the failing seal. The immediate danger passed, but he calculated that the reinforcement would last only three days, leaving the seal more vulnerable afterward.

• Lin Shisan read Gu Mengli’s scroll and learned that opening the seal’s hidden door required the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual, Tianjizi’s bloodline aura, and Gai Jiuyou’s Origin Power from the Demon Seed.
• Feng Xian'er brought Lin Shisan to meet Bai Ziyin, who told them that Duan Qingcheng and the Formation Hall had arrived to reinforce the seal.
• Duan Qingcheng detected a gap in the seal and began the Seven-Star Reinforcement Formation, but the cauldron resisted and its crack widened.
• After Duan Qingcheng explained that the Nine Yang Wheel-Transferring Cultivation Manual could temporarily close the crack, Lin Shisan took Feng Xian'er's place and infused the seal with spiritual power.
• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit absorbed the cauldron’s killing intent and replenished Lin Shisan’s spiritual power, allowing him to close the crack despite burning his palm.
• Lin Shisan concluded that the reinforcement would hold for three days before the dark red power surged again and the weakened seal became easier to breach.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner went to the Seven-Day Immortal, where they learned Mu Ling'er had wrecked the shop after escaping the Lotus Pond. Over drinks with Pang Yue, Lin Shisan heard that Long Yan'er was thriving and that Pang Yue would keep watch over Hu Niu, while a Message Stone lit up before Lin Shisan chose to check it later.

• Zi Yuner noticed Lin Shisan's grief over his father's death and took him to drink at the Seven-Day Immortal.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner found the shop damaged, and a worker explained that Mu Ling'er had smashed its jars and furnishings while Hu Niu tried to stop her.
• Pang Yue arrived with wine and told Lin Shisan that Mu Ling'er and Hu Niu had returned to Nine Nether Mountain after the outburst.
• Lin Shisan reassured Pang Yue that Long Yan'er was growing well, and Pang Yue said Hu Niu was progressing at Nine Nether Mountain and promised to send word if anything happened.
• A Message Stone began glowing during their drinks, but Lin Shisan left it unopened and said he would check it after they returned.

Lin Shisan revisited the places where he had lived as a servant disciple and received a message from the late Qi Jian revealing that Lin Qinghan was his adoptive father and that his biological father was Lin Qingxuan. Following clues from Qi Jian and Bai Youyou, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner flew to Jade Maiden Peak to seek Xue Yaotian, where they spotted her senior sister.

• Zi Yuner accompanied Lin Shisan to his old servant-disciples' courtyard, where she stopped an overseer from beating a servant disciple and trapped him in the river.
• Lin Shisan revisited the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and remembered Feng Qingye and their complicated history.
• At the Law Enforcement Team's quarters, a young disciple gave Lin Shisan a Jade Slip that Qi Jian had left for him.
• Qi Jian's message revealed that Lin Qinghan had found Lin Shisan in battlefield ruins, that his biological father was Lin Qingxuan, and that clues about Lin Qinghan's death led to Jade Maiden Peak.
• Lin Shisan connected Qi Jian's message with Bai Youyou's dying words about Xue Yaotian and decided to go to Jade Maiden Peak with Zi Yuner.
• As they arrived at Jade Maiden Peak, Lin Shisan spotted Xue Yaotian's senior sister resting with a cat in a brightly lit courtyard.

Lin Shisan questioned Xue Yaotian about his father’s death and the Heartlock she had planted in him. He learned that Qingxuan had ordered Lin Qingxuan’s killing and that Xue Yaotian’s Heartlock had been her attempt to protect him and repay his father.

• Lin Shisan arrived at Jade Maiden Peak with Zi Yuner, and Fairy Zhantai led them to Xue Yaotian in the Ice Cave.
• Lin Shisan asked whether Xue Yaotian had been part of the Demon-Hunting Squad that pursued Gai Jiuyou’s dream-taught disciples twenty years earlier, and she confirmed that she had.
• Xue Yaotian told Lin Shisan that Qingxuan had given the order to kill Lin Qingxuan and had later manipulated events that drove Senior Han away.
• Xue Yaotian explained that she had planted the Heartlock using her own life-bound Essence Blood to protect Lin Shisan and repay her debt to his father, who had asked her not to kill the child.

After learning that the people around him had shaped his life to cover up their roles in his father’s death, Lin Shisan chose to abandon their planned path and seek revenge. Zi Yuner pledged to stay beside him as they set out for the Danyang Sect.

• Lin Shisan questioned whether his choices had ever been his own, and Zi Yuner told him he had made his way through the obstacles himself.
• Lin Shisan realized that Qingxuan, Feng Nansheng, Bai Ziyin, and Xue Yaotian had each acted out of guilt or fear after Lin Qingxuan’s death, turning him into a pawn.
• Lin Shisan swore to make everyone who had kept silent pay for his father’s death and declared that his former self had died on Jade Maiden Peak.
• Zi Yuner promised to accompany Lin Shisan through revenge and whatever dangers lay ahead, and he took her hand.
• Lin Shisan boarded the Cloud Boat and flew with Zi Yuner toward the Danyang Sect, resolved to choose his own path.

After visiting Jade Maiden Peak, Lin Shisan returned to Cold Moon Peak with his eyes changed and prepared to release Gai Jiuyou in exchange for help killing Qingxuan. Three days later, Qingxuan arrived to reinforce the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal as Lin Shisan watched from the crowd, ready to act.

• Lin Shisan gave Feng Xian'er three drops of Turbid Spirit Liquid to repair her meridians and said he would oversee the sealing work at the Nine Yang Pavilion.
• Lin Shisan told Zi Yuner he would stand watch at the pavilion, then offered Gai Jiuyou freedom in return for killing Qingxuan and promised she would not harm Cold Moon Peak.
• Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan to seize the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag from Qingming and the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag from Bai Ziyin during the reinforcement, which would loosen the seal for a quarter of an hour.
• Three days later, Qingming, Bai Ziyin, Feng Xian'er, and others gathered outside the Nine Yang Pavilion to reinforce the seal, and Qingxuan arrived with them.
• Lin Shisan watched from the back of the crowd as Qingming, Qingxuan, and Bai Ziyin entered the pavilion, his hand clenched and his eyes filled with killing intent.

Lin Shisan accepted the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag while secretly preparing to trap the people inside the Nine Yang Pavilion and seize his chance to act. As the seal neared completion, Zi Yuner confirmed that the pavilion had been isolated, leaving Lin Shisan poised to activate his formation.

• Bai Ziyin handed Lin Shisan the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag and told him to channel Spiritual Power into it as the formation core contracted.
• Qing'er told Feng Xian'er that Long Yan'er had collapsed with a high fever and was ice-cold, so Feng Xian'er left the pavilion entrance to go to her.
• Zi Yuner revealed that she had sealed Long Yan'er's Spirit Vein with Dragon Breath to keep Feng Xian'er away, then waited outside the closed pavilion doors.
• As Qingming ordered the formation core contracted, Lin Shisan secretly activated the guiding flag of the Five-Spirit Beacon Fire Formation he had added to the seal.
• A pulse from the Little Black Cauldron conveyed Zi Yuner's message that the Ten-Direction Square Formation had sealed off the pavilion, just as Lin Shisan prepared to activate his flag.

Lin Shisan activated the Five-Spirit Beacon Fire Formation and attacked Qingxuan, seeking revenge for his father’s murder. Qingxuan overwhelmed him after learning Lin Shisan was Lin Qingxuan’s son, then prepared to kill him.

• Lin Shisan activated the Five-Spirit Beacon Fire Formation, sealing the Nine Yang Pavilion in walls of wind and fire.
• Zi Yuner entered the pavilion, defeated six Formation Hall disciples, and faced Duan Qingcheng after his disguise and Mid-Stage Sky Soaring cultivation were revealed.
• Lin Shisan trapped Qingming with Chaos Space while the formation restricted his Spiritual Power, but Qingxuan remained untouched by the flames.
• Lin Shisan attacked Qingxuan with the Evil-Exorcising Sword, but Qingxuan caught the blade, threw him down, and pinned him to the floor.
• Lin Shisan revealed that Qingxuan had ordered the death of his biological father, Lin Qingxuan.
• Qingxuan withdrew his foot, wrapped it in dark cyan spiritual light, and told Lin Shisan he could die now.

Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner to block Qingxuan, who attacked him with three Great Strength Vajra Seals. Zi Yuner saved Lin Shisan from the final strike and handed him the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag.

• Lin Shisan summoned the Myriad Souls Banner and formed a yin shield that stopped Qingxuan's first attack.
• Qingxuan urged Bai Ziyin to intervene, but Lin Shisan rejected Bai Ziyin's offer to protect him.
• Qingxuan struck the yin shield with three Great Strength Vajra Seals, breaking it and leaving Lin Shisan badly wounded.
• Zi Yuner caught the final seal and moved Lin Shisan out of its path before it blasted a crater into the floor.
• Zi Yuner gave Lin Shisan the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag she had seized from Qingming.

Lin Shisan used the Array Flags to stir the Nine Yang Cauldron while Zi Yuner fought Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan. After Qingming struck Lin Shisan from behind, Lin Shisan crushed Qingming with the Little Black Cauldron and absorbed his spirit, but Zi Yuner remained surrounded and an Eight-Sided Hammer flew toward her back.

• Lin Shisan activated the Apricot-Yellow Eight-Formation Flag and the Jade Radiance Star Blue Flag beside the Nine Yang Cauldron, causing the cauldron to shudder as Gai Jiuyou's projection emerged.
• Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan attacked Zi Yuner together, and she held them off despite their superior cultivation and gradually accumulating wounds.
• Qingming broke free of the Square-Circle Formation and stabbed Lin Shisan from behind, but Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to smash Qingming's body and absorb his spirit.
• Qingxuan roared in fury and charged at Zi Yuner, who knocked aside his sword while continuing to evade Bai Ziyin's attacks.
• Lin Shisan spotted an Eight-Sided Hammer hurtling toward Zi Yuner's back and shouted a warning.

Zi Yuner revealed her Dragon Clan transformation and fought Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan while Lin Shisan struggled against Duan Qingcheng and two disciples. With Gai Jiuyou still breaking through the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal and Feng Xian’er trapped outside, Lin Shisan decided to stake everything.

• Qingxuan’s Eight-Sided Hammer struck at Zi Yuner, but she caught it barehanded and revealed dragon horns, scales, and her full power.
• Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan attacked Zi Yuner together, gradually cracking her armor and injuring her as the strain on her divine sense grew.
• Duan Qingcheng, grieving Qingming’s death, attacked Lin Shisan with his Square-Circle Formation seal alongside two Formation Hall disciples.
• Gai Jiuyou continued tearing through the Nine Yang Cauldron’s golden seal and said she needed another incense stick’s worth of time.
• Feng Xian’er failed to open the Bronze Gate while Lin Shisan, badly wounded and cornered, tightened his grip on the Little Black Cauldron and resolved to stake everything.