Recaps

Lin Shisan survived the Myriad Souls Banner’s karmic flames by awakening the Hornless Dragon True Spirit and achieving human-banner unity, then defeated several attackers in the Nine Yang Pavilion. As Gai Jiuyou neared freedom, Han Yansong opened the Bronze Gate, with Feng Xian’er behind him.

• Lin Shisan tore open the Myriad Souls Banner and endured the ghost souls and karmic flames consuming his body and soul.
• The Hornless Dragon True Spirit absorbed and refined the karmic flames, causing the ghost souls to bow to Lin Shisan as he broke through his cultivation bottleneck.
• Lin Shisan used the banner’s chains and Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art to restrain Duan Qingcheng and devour two Formation Hall disciples.
• Gai Jiuyou’s projection continued breaking the Nine Yang Cauldron’s seal, prompting Bai Ziyin and Qingxuan to stop fighting and turn toward her.
• Han Yansong pushed open the Bronze Gate and entered the Nine Yang Pavilion, where he and Gai Jiuyou noticed each other and Lin Shisan.
• Feng Xian’er appeared behind Han Yansong, tearful and weakened.

Han Yansong revealed that he had uncovered the truth about Lin Shisan’s father’s murder and secretly arranged Lin Shisan’s awakening, then joined Bai Ziyin and Feng Xian'er to reinforce Gai Jiuyou’s seal. The three began casting the Heavenly Secret Seal as Gai Jiuyou struggled against the restored barrier.

• Feng Xian'er entered the Nine Yang Pavilion and found Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner gravely injured while Gai Jiuyou’s projection tore at the cauldron’s seal.
• Han Yansong told Qingxuan and Bai Ziyin that he knew about the danger, then explained that Qingxuan had ordered Lin Shisan’s father killed and evaded justice by destroying the evidence.
• Han Yansong told Lin Shisan that he had secretly mapped Lin Shisan’s meridians and planted the star chart in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to awaken his Jiaolong True Spirit.
• Han Yansong cast the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Seal onto the Nine Yang Cauldron, strengthening its barrier and restraining Gai Jiuyou’s projection.
• Han Yansong, Bai Ziyin, and Feng Xian'er combined their spiritual power above the cauldron and began unleashing the Heavenly Secret Seal.

Lin Shisan stripped Little Nine’s awakened divine sense with the Myriad Souls Banner, freeing it from the seal’s control, while Han Yansong and the others continued to suppress Gai Jiuyou. After Gai Jiuyou was nearly sealed, Zi Yuner challenged Han Yansong’s promises and released her cultivation seal, forcing open the threshold to Sky Soaring great perfection.

• Han Yansong struck Zi Yuner through her Dragon Scale Armor, worsening her injuries, while Lin Shisan was unable to reach her.
• Han Yansong warned Lin Shisan that Zi Yuner’s rising cultivation could trigger the curse within her, as Gai Jiuyou urged him to save Little Nine from the seal’s control.
• Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner to strip Little Nine’s awakened divine sense, restoring its clear awareness before it collapsed onto his shoulder.
• Han Yansong, Bai Ziyin, and Feng Xian’er pressed their seals down and forced Gai Jiuyou almost entirely into the Nine Yang Cauldron.
• Han Yansong promised to investigate Lin Shisan’s father’s fate, but Zi Yuner questioned his ability to deliver justice and said only strength could guarantee it.
• Zi Yuner released her seal, and her spiritual power broke through the barrier of late Sky Soaring toward Sky Soaring great perfection.

Lin Shisan used the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Seal to break the Nine Yang Cauldron's restraints on Gai Jiuyou while Zi Yuner protected him at the cost of her vitality. Gai Jiuyou attacked Zi Yuner with her severed head, but a mysterious figure emerged from a bolt of purple lightning and stopped it.

• Zi Yuner deepened the curse on her forehead as she prepared to fight Han Yansong and protect Lin Shisan.
• Lin Shisan struck the Nine Yang Cauldron with the Little Black Cauldron, then used 108 supreme-grade spirit crystals to form the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Seal.
• Lin Shisan invoked Dragon Commands the Nine Heavens and pressed the seal onto the cauldron while Zi Yuner blocked attacks from Qingxuan and endured the curse's toll.
• The seal shattered the cauldron's golden restraints, freeing Gai Jiuyou, who formed a blade from dark red petals and severed her own head.
• Gai Jiuyou's head flew toward Zi Yuner, and Lin Shisan rushed to save her, but a bolt of purple lightning struck the head and a figure stepped out of the lightning.

The Eternal Night Demon Emperor appeared in the Nine Yang Pavilion and killed Qingxuan after Lin Shisan directed him to do so. Lin Shisan then confronted Han Yansong over his father’s death, as Mu Ling'er arrived and begged him to show mercy.

• The Eternal Night Demon Emperor used the Creation Cauldron to destroy Gai Jiuyou’s head, but her spirit escaped into Zi Yuner and fought her for control of their shared body.
• Lin Shisan shielded Zi Yuner from the Creation Cauldron and persuaded the Eternal Night Demon Emperor not to strike her.
• After Zi Yuner and Gai Jiuyou agreed to focus on revenge, Lin Shisan ordered the Eternal Night Demon Emperor to kill Qingxuan, whose body and spirit were devoured by the cauldron.
• Lin Shisan turned on Han Yansong and rejected his plea to let the deaths of Qingxuan and Qingming end the feud.
• Mu Ling'er arrived with Aunt Mei and Hu Niu and begged Lin Shisan to show mercy.

Lin Shisan lowered his weapon and tried to leave with Zi Yuner, but Hu Niu stabbed and wounded him, accusing him of betraying her first. As the Immortal Alliance sealed Gai Jiuyou within Zi Yuner, Hu Niu stood over Lin Shisan and threatened to destroy him.

• Lin Shisan stood down against Han Yansong and went to help Zi Yuner leave with him.
• Hu Niu stabbed Lin Shisan through the chest and struck him into a wall, while Mu Ling'er seized the Little Black Cauldron.
• Gai Jiuyou restrained Zi Yuner from rushing to Lin Shisan, and the Eternal Night Demon Emperor dispersed into luminous dust.
• Hu Niu accused Lin Shisan of betraying her by marrying Bai Youyou and Zi Yuner, then aimed her sword at his chest.
• Chiyangzi revealed that Aunt Mei had secretly served the Immortal Alliance for three hundred years.
• Han Yansong, Bai Ziyin, Feng Xian'er, and Aunt Mei formed a four-colored seal around Zi Yuner to contain Gai Jiuyou, while Hu Niu threatened to destroy Lin Shisan.

Hu Niu’s sword struck Mu Ling’er as she threw herself between it and Lin Shisan, leaving her fatally wounded. Han Yansong allowed Lin Shisan to leave the Danyang Sect with Mu Ling’er and Zi Yuner, while Gai Jiuyou’s escape remained unresolved.

• Mu Ling’er took Hu Niu’s sword meant for Lin Shisan and confessed that she had never liked him as she died in his arms.
• Mu Ling’er called Han Yansong Father and begged him to let Lin Shisan go, reminding him of the mistakes he had made.
• Han Yansong roared down Chiyangzi’s objection and ordered Lin Shisan to leave with Zi Yuner.
• Lin Shisan insisted on taking Mu Ling’er with him, and Han Yansong granted his wish.
• Lin Shisan carried Mu Ling’er and helped the weakened Zi Yuner leave, while Han Yansong struck down a disciple who tried to stop them.

Lin Shisan left the Danyang Sect carrying Mu Ling'er’s body and supporting Zi Yuner, while the Cursed Pattern threatened to let Gai Jiuyou seize her. After receiving supplies and a pill from Feng Xian'er, he reached an abandoned Mountain God Temple and laid Mu Ling'er on dry grass.

• A Danyang Sect Servant Disciple delivered a Storage Bag from Qing'er and Long Yan'er, and Lin Shisan promised to return for Yan'er.
• Zi Yuner nearly collapsed as the Cursed Pattern worsened and told Lin Shisan that Gai Jiuyou was trying to seize her body.
• Feng Xian'er gave Lin Shisan a Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill, scolded him, and told him Cold Moon Peak’s doors would remain open if he returned alive.
• Lin Shisan carried Mu Ling'er and supported Zi Yuner down the mountain without looking back.
• Lin Shisan reached an abandoned Mountain God Temple and gently laid Mu Ling'er on dry grass.

Lin Shisan mourned Mu Ling'er and helped Zi Yuner suppress Gai Jiuyou before Gu Mengli arrived with a diagram that might help free Zi Yuner from the spirit inside her. He and Zi Yuner planned to find a safe place, bury Mu Ling'er, and investigate how to remove the nail from Zi Yuner's mind.

• Lin Shisan realized Mu Ling'er was dead and grieved beside her body.
• Lin Shisan threatened Gai Jiuyou, forcing her demonic qi to retreat while he used Dragon Breath Qi to suppress her within Zi Yuner.
• Gu Mengli came to the abandoned Mountain God Temple and gave Lin Shisan a copied diagram of the Nine Yang Cauldron's seal.
• Gu Mengli told Lin Shisan she would secretly protect Yan'er and Qing'er before leaving the temple.
• Lin Shisan studied the diagram and promised Zi Yuner they would find a safe place, lay Mu Ling'er to rest, and seek a way to remove the nail from her mind.

Lin Shisan brought the injured Zi Yuner to a hidden valley and studied Gu Mengli’s Beastskin Scroll while caring for her and visiting Mu Ling’er’s body. He returned to bury Mu Ling’er in the valley, but a voice suddenly asked whether he was planning to bury her alive.

• Lin Shisan left Mu Ling’er in the Mountain God Temple and helped Zi Yuner reach a secluded valley with a stone cottage.
• Lin Shisan studied the Beastskin Scroll as Zi Yuner recovered, while he visited Mu Ling’er every three days and kept watch for Gai Jiuyou’s Spirit Body.
• Zi Yuner made a small woven bird and let it drift into the pool, then asked how long Gai Jiuyou could remain inside her.
• Lin Shisan decided to bring Mu Ling’er back to the valley and bury her on a sunny slope beneath an old willow.
• As Lin Shisan placed Mu Ling’er in the grave, an unfamiliar voice asked if he planned to bury her alive.

Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan that Mu Ling'er could be revived if her body was preserved, and offered to keep it intact while Lin Shisan sought the means to restore her soul. Lin Shisan followed Gai Jiuyou to Netherworld Cave, where a ghost soul attacked Mu Ling'er as they entered.

• Gai Jiuyou revealed that Mu Ling'er was in suspended death and could be revived if her body remained intact.
• Gai Jiuyou offered to preserve Mu Ling'er's body for three years by inhabiting it, in exchange for Lin Shisan recovering her second Dao Seed and finding three Manjusaka flowers on Arctic Snow Mountain.
• Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan to take her to Netherworld Cave in Ten Thousand Poisons Valley so she could safely transfer between Mu Ling'er and Zi Yuner.
• Lin Shisan carried Mu Ling'er through the Southern Frontier for fifteen days, following Gai Jiuyou's directions to Netherworld Cave.
• Lin Shisan followed Zi Yuner into Netherworld Cave with Mu Ling'er, and a ghost soul leaped from the cave wall toward Mu Ling'er.

Lin Shisan and Gai Jiuyou tried to transfer Gai Jiuyou's soul into Mu Ling'er's body, but a Heart-Guarding Seal blocked the attempt. They left Mu Ling'er on the stone platform to preserve her while waiting for her to wake, and Lin Shisan asked Gai Jiuyou what it would take to revive his senior sister.

• Lin Shisan carried Mu Ling'er to the center of Netherworld Cave and laid her on the rune-covered stone platform as Gai Jiuyou prepared to leave Zi Yuner's body.
• Gai Jiuyou's soul left Zi Yuner but was repelled by a Heart-Guarding Seal protecting Mu Ling'er, which Gai Jiuyou said had been made with Mu Linger's lifebound essence blood.
• Lin Shisan tried to weaken the seal with his spiritual power, but it rejected him; when he touched Mu Ling'er's brow, the seal trembled instead of rebounding, and he suspected her soul had stirred.
• Gai Jiuyou advised Lin Shisan to wait for Mu Ling'er to wake and keep her body on the platform, where the yin energy could sustain her.
• Lin Shisan asked Gai Jiuyou what she wanted in exchange for reviving his senior sister, promising to agree to any terms.

Gai Jiuyou asked Zi Yuner to retrieve a soul artifact from the Underground Palace beneath Yue Wushuang’s Bedchamber so she could revive Mu Ling'er, and bound herself to the promise with a Soul Contract. After six months of recuperation and cultivation in the Netherworld Cave, Zi Yuner reached Sky Soaring Great Perfection and Lin Shisan advanced to the Yellow Dragon Seventh Layer, while Mu Ling'er remained unconscious.

• Gai Jiuyou explained that the Ten Hells Gate needed her artifact from Nine Nether Mountain’s Underground Palace to awaken its restrictions and scattered disciples.
• Gai Jiuyou offered to suppress Zi Yuner’s curse and raise her temporarily to the Three Flowers Realm if Zi Yuner accommodated her soul form, but warned she had to escape within two hours.
• Zi Yuner agreed to retrieve the artifact after Gai Jiuyou accepted her three conditions, including fully reviving Mu Ling'er, and sealed the promises in a Soul Contract.
• Over six months in the Netherworld Cave, Gai Jiuyou’s soul form grew stronger, Zi Yuner’s injuries and curse eased, and Lin Shisan practiced the Nine Nether Alchemy Scripture.
• Zi Yuner reached Sky Soaring Great Perfection, and Lin Shisan advanced to the Yellow Dragon Seventh Layer as his Hornless Dragon True Spirit grew a fifth claw.
• Lin Shisan promised Mu Ling'er he would take her to Arctic Snow Mountain to see the manjusaka when she woke, and Zi Yuner comforted him.

After six months in Netherworld Cave, Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner left Mu Ling'er protected there and traveled to Nine Nether Mountain to claim the magical artifact in Yue Wushuang's underground palace. Lin Shisan reached the Command Token, but touching it triggered the palace's alarm.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner waited until Mu Ling'er could endure their absence, then Gai Jiuyou entered Zi Yuner's sea of consciousness and they left Netherworld Cave.
• The pair traveled to Nine Nether Mountain, where Gai Jiuyou revealed a hidden entrance through a dried-up underground river.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner found the concealed passage and entered the underground palace beneath Yue Wushuang's bedchamber.
• Gai Jiuyou warned Lin Shisan about the palace's restrictions and told him when to cross safely to the central platform.
• Lin Shisan used Seven Star Step to reach the platform and touch the Humanoid Command Token, triggering the underground palace's alarm.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner escaped the Underground Palace with a fake artifact, only to discover Yue Wushuang had lured them into a trap prepared for Gai Jiuyou. As Yue Wushuang’s light net closed around them, Gai Jiuyou identified the formation’s earth-vein source, and Lin Shisan spotted a raised flagstone that might conceal its core.

• Lin Shisan took the artifact from its platform, activating the Underground Palace’s restrictions, and he and Zi Yuner fled into the Underground River passage.
• The artifact shattered into powder, and Lin Shisan realized Yue Wushuang had left a replica as bait while hiding the real artifact elsewhere.
• Runes activated in the passage, opening a fissure that revealed Yue Wushuang behind a net of dark red light.
• Yue Wushuang confronted Gai Jiuyou in Zi Yuner’s Sea of Consciousness and revealed she had spent five hundred years preparing to trap him.
• Zi Yuner held back the contracting light net while Gai Jiuyou explained that they needed to find the formation’s core.
• Lin Shisan spotted a slightly raised flagstone beside Yue Wushuang’s feet.

Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner, an Array Flag, and Yin Jade to break Yue Wushuang’s restrictions and protect Zi Yuner. After the array failed, Yue Wushuang let them leave the Underground Palace, and Lin Shisan confirmed that the magical artifact he sought was not there.

• Lin Shisan identified the array’s core while Zi Yuner struggled to hold off the contracting threads of light.
• Lin Shisan placed the Myriad Souls Banner and eight small flags to disrupt the array, then used Yin Jade to attack the dome’s central rune.
• Yue Wushuang shattered the array’s core and accelerated the restrictions, but Lin Shisan explained that her strike had redirected their Spiritual Power toward the dome.
• The Yin Jade’s white light flowed through the dome’s runes and severed the restrictions’ Spiritual Power, stopping the threads of light.
• Lin Shisan said he had come to check for a magical artifact and would leave without taking Yue Wushuang’s treasure.
• Yue Wushuang chose not to fight Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner, praised his array-breaking method, and showed them the way out.

Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Gai Jiuyou found the hidden cavern beneath Nine Nether Mountain and discovered Yue Wushuang had used them to open its sealed entrance. After they broke her restrictions, Zi Yuner seized the real artifact, but Yue Wushuang challenged them to escape with it.

• Gai Jiuyou revealed that the real artifact was hidden beneath Nine Nether Mountain and that Yue Wushuang had lured them into opening its entrance.
• Lin Shisan used the Myriad Souls Banner's power to uncover the hidden passage behind the Back Mountain waterfall and open the cavern's stone gate.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner discovered the real artifact and realized Yue Wushuang had secretly been waiting inside the cavern.
• Zi Yuner and Lin Shisan disrupted Yue Wushuang's restrictions, while she trapped them in the Nine Nether Thunder Prison.
• Lin Shisan broke the restrictions with the Myriad Souls Banner, and Zi Yuner fought Yue Wushuang and seized the artifact.
• Yue Wushuang confronted Zi Yuner beside the artifact and asked how they planned to escape.

Yue Wushuang used the Big Dipper Sword Formation to tear apart Gai Jiuyou’s soul inside Zi Yuner, but Gai Jiuyou revealed a hidden escape route beneath the formation. Lin Shisan tried to force it open and was wounded as Yue Wushuang resumed her attack, leaving all three trapped in the cavern.

• Yue Wushuang summoned the Big Dipper Sword Formation and sent its blades into Gai Jiuyou’s soul while sparing Zi Yuner’s body.
• Yue Wushuang recalled how Gai Jiuyou had humiliated her and vowed to kill her and reclaim the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Lin Shisan warned that the formation could damage the Myriad Souls Banner, and Yue Wushuang said she planned to make him a guardian puppet.
• Gai Jiuyou revealed a hidden door beneath the formation base, and Yue Wushuang broke the floor to expose a dark gold fissure.
• Lin Shisan used Dragon Breath Power to force the fissure open, but Yue Wushuang attacked and a sword pierced his shoulder.
• Yue Wushuang declared that Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Gai Jiuyou would all become her corpse puppets.

Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner escaped Yue Wushuang by entering the Independent Space inside the Hidden Vein, where Gai Jiuyou began merging with her second Dao Seed. After forty-nine days, Gai Jiuyou completed her Dharma Body and awakened, declaring her return.

• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner forced their way through the rift into the Hidden Vein's Independent Space while Yue Wushuang remained outside.
• Yue Wushuang warned that the Hidden Vein's Spiritual Power would run out and its Sealing Restrictions would trap them.
• Gai Jiuyou revealed that the pitch-black artifact was her second Dao Seed and said merging with it would take forty-nine days.
• Lin Shisan raised the Myriad Souls Banner to protect Gai Jiuyou while she merged with the Dao Seed, and Zi Yuner agreed to keep watch.
• Gai Jiuyou's Dharma Body gradually took shape as the days passed, and she awakened on the forty-ninth day, announcing her return.

Gai Jiuyou completed her Dharma body by turning Yue Wushuang’s attack into the final element she needed. After defeating Yue Wushuang in their duel, she revealed that she had deliberately left her Dharma body vulnerable to the five-element steel fork.

• On the forty-ninth day, Yue Wushuang broke through the barrier and attacked Gai Jiuyou while her Dharma body was still incomplete.
• Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner tried to stop Yue Wushuang, but she knocked their defenses aside as Gai Jiuyou awakened and blocked the attack with her Fang Tian Painted Halberd.
• Gai Jiuyou and Yue Wushuang fought through more than a hundred exchanges, and Yue Wushuang’s steel fork began to fall behind.
• Gai Jiuyou let Yue Wushuang pierce her Dharma body, then struck her with the butt of her halberd and revealed that the fork’s five elements completed her Dharma body.
• Gai Jiuyou pulled the steel fork from her shoulder, healed her wound, and told the kneeling Yue Wushuang that she had been waiting for the weapon’s final element.

Gai Jiuyou defeated Yue Wushuang after reclaiming the power she had drawn from Nine Nether Mountain, then spared her and left the mountain in her care. Three days later, Gai Jiuyou awakened Ten Hells Gate’s restrictions and reunited with its ten Sect Masters.

• Gai Jiuyou completed her manifested body and broke through to the Three Flowers Realm, while Yue Wushuang activated the Nine Nether Blood Formation to strengthen herself.
• Gai Jiuyou disarmed Yue Wushuang and explained that she could reclaim the power Yue had borrowed from Nine Nether Mountain.
• Gai Jiuyou offered Yue Wushuang her hand, kept Nine Nether Mountain in her care, and accepted her return to calling her Master.
• Gai Jiuyou left Nine Nether Mountain with Lin Shisan and Zi Yuner and said she would take them to meet the people she had left behind.
• Three days later, Gai Jiuyou placed the artifact into Netherworld Cave’s stone platform, awakening Ten Hells Gate’s restrictions and summoning its ten Sect Masters.
• The ten Sect Masters knelt before Gai Jiuyou and paid their respects as the Venerable Master.

Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Gai Jiuyou traveled to Arctic Snow Mountain to retrieve the Dao Seed needed to revive Mu Ling'er, but learned it had merged with the mountain. Lin Shisan's Little Black Cauldron reacted to the summit's golden halo, and the mountain guardian revealed that the same light had shone there when heavenly fire fell five hundred years earlier.

• Gai Jiuyou awakened the Ten Hells Gate masters and ordered them to gather their disciples and rebuild the Gate's operations.
• Gai Jiuyou told Lin Shisan that reviving Mu Ling'er required the Dao Seed, the manjusaka, and the Reincarnation Mirror; Zi Yuner recommended seeking the first two at Arctic Snow Mountain before traveling to the Southern Frontier.
• Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Gai Jiuyou reached Arctic Snow Mountain and encountered its ancient mountain guardian, who said the Dao Seed had fused with the mountain after heavenly fire struck five hundred years earlier.
• Lin Shisan's Little Black Cauldron reacted to the golden halo on the summit, awakening the hornless dragon true spirit and causing the halo to pulse.
• The mountain guardian told Gai Jiuyou that an identical light had shone from the foot of the mountain when the heavenly fire fell.

Lin Shisan learned that a cauldron-bearing youth had sealed the Heavenly Fire five hundred years earlier, and that the mountain’s seal might respond to his own Little Black Cauldron. His attempt produced a resonance but failed to open the mountain, so he and his companions decided to wait for the right time to retrieve the Dao Seed and Manjusaka.

• The Mountain Guardian told Lin Shisan that a youth with an identical black cauldron had poured his blood into the Heavenly Fire’s fissure five hundred years ago, calming its Chaos Power and sealing it within the mountain.
• Gai Jiuyou explained that reopening the mountain required power of the same origin, while Zi Yuner warned that Lin Shisan lacked the cultivation to succeed by sacrificing his blood.
• The Mountain Guardian suggested that Lin Shisan try resonating with the seal through the cauldron, and he sent Spiritual Power into it to form a pillar of Seven-Colored Rosy Light.
• The mountain shook when the light struck the summit’s halo, but the seal remained closed despite the confirmed resonance.
• The Mountain Guardian revealed that the former cauldron-bearer had also failed to open the seal through resonance and had said the time had not yet come.
• Zi Yuner and Gai Jiuyou urged Lin Shisan to wait, and the group decided to find shelter from the wind and snow.

Lin Shisan discovered that the Little Black Cauldron was a key to locating a rift beneath Arctic Snow Mountain, and learned that opening its door required a road carried in blood. He left the altar with the cauldron, seeking the meaning of that road.

• The Mountain Guardian told Lin Shisan that an ancient altar had marked a rift beneath Arctic Snow Mountain, where a light from within the mountain had collided with the heavenly fire.
• Lin Shisan found carvings matching the Little Black Cauldron and followed them to an underground altar with a cauldron-shaped recess.
• Lin Shisan placed the cauldron in the recess, revealing a star chart that marked the main peak, and concluded that the altar located the rift and the cauldron was its key.
• The Mountain Guardian recalled that the young senior had said the cauldron remembered the way but had forgotten how to open the door, which required a road carved into blood.
• Lin Shisan walked toward the carvings as Zi Yuner and Gai Jiuyou watched, and Gai Jiuyou remarked that he had found something more important than a Dao seed.

Lin Shisan learned that ten spirit vein intersections had to be activated to loosen the seal on Arctic Snow Mountain, and that the Little Black Cauldron could guide him to them. He activated the node beneath the Reincarnation Mirror, loosening the mountain seal and opening the way to retrieve the mirror.

• Lin Shisan learned from the Mountain Guardian that the star chart marked ten spirit vein intersections and that more than one person's blood would be needed to open the seal.
• Lin Shisan, Zi Yuner, and Gai Jiuyou agreed to return to the Ten Hells Gate, where a node lay beneath the Reincarnation Mirror.
• The First Gate Master opened the forbidden ground, and Lin Shisan noticed rune patterns that Gai Jiuyou explained had shifted naturally with the earth vein.
• Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron beneath the Reincarnation Mirror to activate the node, lighting the stars on the ceiling and loosening the seal on Arctic Snow Mountain.
• Lin Shisan said they could soon retrieve the Dao Seed and manjusaka, and that he would activate the remaining nodes after reviving Senior Sister; he then declared they could retrieve the Reincarnation Mirror.