Recaps

Pei Ye watched Yan Caiyue defeat Kong Wen before Ji Changyun began a sword exchange with Ming Qitian, whose Sword Dao had drawn the entire gathering’s attention. As Ji Changyun unleashed the overwhelming Sword Sea Chapter, Pei Ye remained focused on Joy-in-Death Tower and the possibility of investigating Hushan Sword Gate’s past.

• Yan Caiyue defeated Kong Wen by unleashing a restrained strike after Kong Wen’s strength began to fail, then Zhang Jingbi left before their scheduled match.
• Guan Qianyan asked Pei Ye who would win, and he guessed that the sturdier fighter would prevail just before Yan Caiyue won.
• Ji Changyun and Ming Qitian began their long-awaited sword exchange, and Ji Changyun explained that he would use one strike he had developed over decades.
• Ji Changyun unleashed the Sword Sea Chapter, a vast sword strike that made the gathering fear the sky and mountains were being overwhelmed.
• Ming Qitian glanced at Pei Ye amid the strike, while Pei Ye later declined Kong Lanting’s request for help interpreting a line in the Pine-Mist Sword Chant and continued watching Yan Caiyue.

Ming Qitian and Ji Changyun exchanged two extraordinary sword strokes, and Pei Ye realized he wanted to learn the sword from her. At the Iron Pine Sword Gathering, Yan Caiyue pressed Zhang Jingbi into a brutal contest of strength and knocked him flying without disarming him.

• Ji Changyun unleashed a sea-like sword stroke, and Ming Qitian contained it in a cup-shaped stroke she called the Sword Treatise.
• Ming Qitian and Ji Changyun ended their exchange, and Pei Ye understood her silent question as an offer to teach him the sword.
• Kong Lanting told Pei Ye about Zhang Jingbi’s difficult circumstances and his lack of anyone able to teach him Phoenix Mountain Cry.
• Pei Ye and Guan Qianyan predicted Yan Caiyue would defeat Zhang Jingbi, and Yan Caiyue opened the match with a powerful White Rainbow Chapter stroke.
• Yan Caiyue repeatedly attacked Zhang Jingbi’s sword, and his final clash sent Zhang Jingbi flying while leaving his sword in his hand.

During the Martial Trial, Yan Caiyue gained the upper hand over Zhang Jingbi, but an unidentified sword strike severed Yan Caiyue’s arm and wounded his abdomen, shattering his Meridian Tree. The Law Enforcement Hall took control of the scene and began investigating the suspicious attack.

• Zhang Jingbi surprised Yan Caiyue with the inherited move Broken Staff Hears the Phoenix, but Yan Caiyue recovered and turned the duel back in his favor.
• Pei Ye explained to Kong Lanting how Pine Growing in the Mist should flow with fresh, living motion, then paused as the fight’s outcome shifted.
• Yan Caiyue pressed Zhang Jingbi toward defeat and prepared a humiliating finishing strike aimed at Zhang Jingbi’s sword.
• An unknown sword strike severed Yan Caiyue’s sword arm and pierced his lower abdomen, while a blast of palm force knocked Zhang Jingbi away.
• Gan Zifeng secured the area for the Law Enforcement Hall, and Pei Ye saw Xu Shang standing nearby as Yan Caiyue’s elder relative knelt beside him.

After Yan Caiyue was gravely injured in a sword match, Pei Ye investigated the suspicious strike and considered whether a hidden force or a Living Sword had influenced Zhang Jingbi. He questioned Zhang Jingbi in the Law Enforcement Hall and found that Zhang Jingbi had not intended to cripple Yan Caiyue.

• Gan Zifeng announced that Yan Caiyue was out of danger, ordered the sword discussions to resume after an hour, and sent Zhang Jingbi and Yan Caiyue to separate halls for treatment and investigation.
• Pei Ye told Gan Zifeng and Zhao Cheng that Zhang Jingbi's abrupt, unusually precise strike seemed beyond his skill and might have involved an external power.
• Kong Lanting suggested that a Living Sword might have influenced Zhang Jingbi, recalling a tale about hidden Demon Swords in Kongtong Mountain.
• Pei Ye visited Zhang Jingbi in a stone cell beneath the Law Enforcement Hall and learned that Zhang Jingbi had wanted to win but had not intended to cripple Yan Caiyue.

Pei Ye discovered that Zhang Jingbi’s sword may hold a clue to his inexplicable strike, but Zhang Jingbi could not explain where he found it. Pei Ye asked Xu Shang to meet him on Colored Mist Peak, while Crane Inspector Wu began investigating the Jade Pavilion’s ledgers.

• Pei Ye noticed that the sword in Lone Prison lacked the Peace Knot and tassel ring from Zhang Jingbi’s stage sword, and suspected it had been replaced.
• Xi Tianji explained that Zhang Jingbi had switched to his Practice Sword himself, and Zhang Jingbi said he had used it for nearly two years and found it somewhere on the peak.
• Pei Ye chose not to accuse Zhang Jingbi of lying and decided to investigate the sword’s origins.
• During questioning, Xu Shang denied that she had caused Zhang Jingbi’s strike and asked whether he would be released if there was no further evidence; Pei Ye asked to speak with her on Colored Mist Peak the next day.
• Crane Inspector Wu arrived at the Jade Pavilion and demanded its public and private ledgers dating back to the twelfth month of the Renxu Year.

Wu Dong questioned Wei Mingfu about Jade Pavilion’s Heart Amber dealings, while Li Piaoqing and Shen Yao traced missing Heart Amber in Bowang. Pei Ye learned that the Edict Diagram was eroding his mind, then used the Jade Pendant to witness memories of a young man from the Hushan Sword Gate, whose later identity remained unclear.

• Wu Dong confronted Wei Mingfu with evidence of his meeting with Qiao Changyue and demanded the Jade Pavilion’s Heart Amber records, but Wei Mingfu claimed they had been burned.
• Shen Yao confirmed that Yu Chaocai had bought five liang of Heart Amber, while Li Piaoqing concluded that it had been exchanged for Snow-Collapsing and removed from the treasury records.
• Li Piaoqing wrote to Wu Hejian and Pei Ye about the missing Heart Amber and asked Pei Ye for further guidance on Flying Feather Immortal.
• Pei Ye suffered the Edict Diagram’s erosion, and Black Cat warned that his own damaged mind threatened to let the Immortal Lord descend; Pei Ye said he would kill him first.
• Pei Ye used the Jade Pendant to witness memories of a young man training at the Hushan Sword Gate, where he struggled to master Snow-Collapsing and refused to compromise.
• Years later, Qu Zhoufu practiced with a saber while the man watched, and Qu Zhoufu asked what had earned him a reputation in the Prefectural City.

Pei Ye watched Qu Zhu uncover why Hushan Sword Gate had stayed hidden and why its leaders were wasting away, despite his master’s pleas to stop. After identifying a formation around Lake Mountain, Qu Zhu’s findings left him increasingly silent and afraid.

• Qu Zhu learned that Qu Zhoufu had been chosen as sect leader despite Qu Zhu meeting the requirements, and he vowed to investigate.
• Qu Zhoufu tried to comfort Qu Zhu and explained the ancestral injunction that Hushan Sword Gate must not leave Lake Mountain.
• Qu Zhu searched the library and questioned his master, discovering the old man’s true qi was being drained and that Zhoufu faced the same fate.
• Qu Zhu traced the sect’s hidden secret to a formation surrounding Lake Mountain.
• Qu Zhu’s calculations began to reveal something that filled him with disbelief and fear.

Pei Ye witnessed Qu Zhu secretly dismantle the formation guarding the [Buried Star Tomb] and reach its immortal treasures, only for one of them to overwhelm him when he touched it. As Qu Zhu collapsed, the entire hall began to scrape and shift.

• Qu Zhu studied the Star Worm’s annual movements and secretly altered its formation so he could enter the space it guarded.
• Qu Zhu entered the bronze hall and read the inscription describing how saber and sword could reveal the tomb’s hidden treasures.
• Qu Zhu used [Illuminating the Nether] to open the artifact and found the dark substance and the Bead inside.
• Qu Zhu touched the dark substance, which bit his finger and left him kneeling in agony as blood flowed from his seven orifices.
• Pei Ye heard countless cold scrapes coming from throughout the hall as a new change began.

Qu Zhu escaped the Star Worm with his master's help, but his master died and Qu Zhu was expelled from the Hushan Sword Gate. Years later, Wu Dong exposed the Jade Pavilion's falsified Heart Amber accounts and ordered the establishment sealed while the Immortal Platform traced its silver.

• Qu Zhu found the Star Worm moving inside the temple and failed to reach the luminous pearl behind an invisible barrier.
• Qu Zhu's master rescued him from the Star Worm, but was grievously wounded and died after they escaped.
• Qu Zhu challenged Qu Zhoufu over the Hushan Sword Gate's mission at the master's grave, then was expelled and left Lake Mountain in shackles.
• Wu Dong inspected the Jade Pavilion's secret vault and reviewed Wei Mingfu's reconstructed Heart Amber ledger.
• Wu Dong showed that the Jade Pavilion's purchases and revenues contradicted the ledger, accused it of sending Heart Amber to a fixed bulk buyer, and ordered it sealed.

Wu Dong and Sui Zaihua defeated the Joy-in-Death Tower’s masked guardians beneath the Lotus-Planting Tower and discovered Hua Wanquan’s corpse. They found a hollow space behind the Dragon-Severing Stone wall, which Wu Dong began to cut open.

• Wu Dong broke into the Lotus-Planting Tower and descended to its seventh level after Hua Wanquan invited him there.
• Wu Dong found Hua Wanquan dead and was confronted by two masked Body-Gathering Realm fighters.
• Wu Dong killed the white-masked fighter with Jade Tiger and Silk-Tether, then was badly wounded by the remaining fighter.
• Sui Zaihua arrived and killed the uncolored-masked fighter, then warned Wu Dong about the name Qu Zhu.
• Wu Dong examined the rough wall behind the stone seat, determined it was hollow, and began cutting into the Dragon-Severing Stone.

Wu Dong and Sui Zaihua uncovered clues about the Joy-in-Death Tower’s hidden leadership and Sui Zaihua recounted his history with Qu Zhu. At Kongtong Mountain, Pei Ye watched Qu Zhu return to his master’s grave after seven years and speak with Qu Zhoufu about his years away and his plans.

• Sui Zaihua explained that the Joy-in-Death Tower’s four Play Masks represented [Sima], [Sun], [Liu], and [Cao], and Wu Dong described how Qiao Changyue had directed the Jade Pavilion’s heart amber to the Tower.
• Sui Zaihua warned that the figure Wu Dong had met might not have been the true Lord of the Mask, then recalled how he had first encountered Qu Zhu in Bowang and watched him rise in the local officialdom.
• Wu Dong and Sui Zaihua broke through the stone wall and found an empty hall containing a skeleton and an unsheathed longsword.
• Pei Ye, despite his exhaustion, used the Jade Pendant to watch Qu Zhu return to his master’s grave after seven years and burn spirit money there.
• Qu Zhoufu arrived and cleared grass from the grave while Qu Zhu said he might not return, described his years in Yu Chaocai’s city, and spoke of making his move.

Qu Zhu told Qu Zhoufu that he could not unravel the Buried Star Tomb without the bead and divine powers, while Sui Zaihua and Qu Zhu traveled with Yu Chaocai’s convoy through snowbound Great Kongtong. After Sui Zaihua searched for missing scouts and the convoy resumed its journey, it reached the entrance to Heavenly Tides Valley, where those at the front stopped to discuss the route ahead.

• Qu Zhoufu urged Qu Zhu to abandon his obsession with the Buried Star Tomb, and Qu Zhu said he understood that mortal effort alone could not break its barrier.
• At Clear Mirror Lake, Wu Dong examined a masked corpse’s belongings and found a jade brush that needed no ink and a short note, while Sui Zaihua recalled the party’s journey south twenty years earlier.
• During a heavy snowfall in Great Kongtong, Yu Chaocai chose to press on, and Qu Zhu and Sui Zaihua traveled with the convoy into the mountains.
• When two Kongtong scouts failed to return, Sui Zaihua went with two disciples to follow their markers toward Great Heavenly Tides, then returned to camp.
• The convoy set off again the next morning, and Qu Zhu and Sui Zaihua discussed their possible careers as they approached Heavenly Tides Valley.
• At the valley entrance, the convoy stopped while the people at the front discussed what to do next.

Sui Zaihua recounted the ambush that destroyed the convoy in the Great Heavenly Tides and how he fought the Joy-in-Death Tower assassin before returning to the slaughter. The account ended with him revealing that his heart lay on the right, though he said that was not what saved his life.

• Sui Zaihua noticed that the markers in the valley did not match and discovered that the two Kongtong scouts had taken another route.
• Sui Zaihua followed the scouts’ tracks, found their bodies, and killed a black-robed Joy-in-Death Tower member who used fire-controlling True Qi.
• Sui Zaihua returned to find three enemies massacring the convoy, while Ji Changcun and Su Xuchun fought the strongest attacker.
• Sui Zaihua reached Yu Chaocai with Qu Zhu, but an unfamiliar colleague stabbed Sui Zaihua through the chest and killed Yu Chaocai.
• Sui Zaihua later told Wu Dong that he had been born with his heart on the right, but insisted that this was not what saved his life.

Sui Zaihua told Wu Dong how he survived Qu Zhu’s attack and proposed that Qu Zhu became the Joy-in-Death Tower’s hidden Lord of the Mask. Pei Ye then witnessed Qu Zhu use sixty-eight swords to recreate an immortal’s array and open the way into the divine hall, where its guardian unleashed a terrifying attack.

• Sui Zaihua recounted surviving the attack that killed his companions, investigating Qu Zhu, and eventually killing Qiao Changyue.
• Sui Zaihua told Wu Dong that Qu Zhu may have become the Joy-in-Death Tower’s hidden Lord of the Mask, and Wu Dong sent his confidential conjecture in a message.
• Pei Ye watched Qu Zhu return to Lake Mountain’s valley with three masked members of the Joy-in-Death Tower after ten years away.
• Qu Zhu arranged sixty-eight swords into an array that formed a flowing Sword Serpent beneath the starlight.
• Qu Zhu used the array to open a passage into the divine hall, where the Star Worm sensed the intruders and unleashed a tremendous wind.

Qu Zhu defeated the Star Worm and recovered the Heart of the Western Court, while Sima revealed Joy-in-Death Tower’s plan to pursue the Great Liang path to immortality. Pei Ye learned how Qu Zhu had prepared the swords that brought down the worm, then visited Zhang Jingbi’s courtyard and discovered Jingbi had wanted to use one of Mei Qing’s swords.

• Qu Zhu reached the dais and destroyed the Star Worm with the sixty-eight swords he had prepared over ten years.
• Sima took the Heart of the Western Court and explained that Joy-in-Death Tower intended to pursue the Great Liang path to immortality rather than claim Jianglou’s Immortal Authority.
• Black Cat explained to Pei Ye how Qu Zhu had used heaven-and-earth bestowal and a landscape-spanning formation to make the swords part of the Star Worm.
• Xu Shang visited Pei Ye, and he asked her about Zhang Jingbi’s swords and his connection to Mei Qing.
• Xu Shang showed Pei Ye Jingbi’s courtyard, where he found old swords from Mei Qing’s tower and learned Jingbi had often gone to his father’s tower with red eyes.

Pei Ye investigated Zhang Mei Qing’s death by examining his sword and belongings, uncovering his close bond with Ji Feng and the grief that followed Ji Feng’s suicide. The letters suggested Ji Feng may not have died when the official account claimed, leaving Pei Ye to question what happened to him and Zhang Mei Qing.

• Pei Ye noticed Zhang Jingbi’s sword showed signs of long use by two swordsmen, and Xu Shang agreed to let him investigate her husband’s past.
• Xu Shang showed Pei Ye Zhang Mei Qing’s study and recalled his grief after his student Ji Feng killed himself following humiliation at the Iron Pine Sword Gathering.
• Xu Shang recounted how Zhang Mei Qing left without explanation and vanished, with his Peak Master Seal becoming ownerless days later.
• Pei Ye read Zhang Mei Qing’s notes and letters to Ji Feng, which showed their deep trust and ongoing correspondence.
• Pei Ye found Ji Feng’s final note arranging a visit on the night before Zhang Mei Qing departed, and questioned whether Ji Feng had truly died as reported.

Pei Ye uncovered evidence that Ji Feng was murdered by infiltrators who used heart amber, then read Zhang Mei Qing’s old investigation into the killer. The chapter ended with Zhang’s notes admitting that the culprits had erased the traces before he could identify them.

• Pei Ye found Ji Feng’s closed case file and the note showing that Ji Feng had asked Zhang Mei Qing to meet him on the night he died.
• Pei Ye concluded that Ji Feng had been forcibly killed and that Zhang Mei Qing had recognized something abnormal about his eyes from his earlier time at the Sword Cultivation Academy.
• Pei Ye and Xu Shang sorted Zhang Mei Qing’s notebooks and found his deductions that heart amber required vulnerability or deception, two attackers were involved, and spies had infiltrated Kongtong.
• Xu Shang recalled that Zhang Mei Qing had spent the day after Ji Feng’s death on Immortal Bridge Peak investigating the scene.
• Pei Ye read Zhang Mei Qing’s list of potential visitors and his conclusion that the killer’s traces had been erased before he could identify them.

Pei Ye and the woman discovered Zhang Mei Qing’s hidden Sound-Recording Paper, which captured a secret visit to the Law Enforcement Hall and a discussion of the Soul-Seizing Bead. The recording ended as the speakers argued over using it to transfer sword techniques to someone who could not leave their refuge.

• Pei Ye read Zhang Mei Qing’s notes about Heart Amber trapping fragments of a person’s mind and the unexplained sword left with Xiaofeng’s body.
• The woman recognized Zhang Mei Qing’s phrase as a marker for a separate sheet of notes and found his Sound-Recording Paper record.
• The recording revealed that a silent visitor entered the Law Enforcement Hall storeroom, drew the sword briefly, and carried it away.
• The visitor brought the sword to a hidden room, where he discussed the Bead with another man and explained its stages of reflection and retention.
• The men said the Bead could directly transfer a sword technique to someone unable to leave, then questioned whether the quota of “bones” had been filled.

Pei Ye examined a record of the Joy-in-Death Tower using a Soul-Seizing Pearl to teach sword arts, then entered the pearl and relived a dead White Bamboo disciple’s swordsmanship under Qu Zhu’s shadow. He learned how the pearl reenacted recorded sword arts but was forced out by mental pain, leaving Xu Shang to help him recover.

• Pei Ye read an account describing how a sword art was imprinted onto someone, creating another “Flow,” and suspected the sword-wielder might not have been human.
• Pei Ye entered the Soul-Seizing Pearl and found himself in a dark realm facing a shadowy swordsman and an iron wall.
• Pei Ye realized the pearl reenacted swordsmanship rather than seizing memories, and recognized the shadow as Qu Zhu at forty-three.
• Pei Ye experienced a dead White Bamboo disciple’s Bamboo-Cutting Sword and endured a second sword art until mental agony drove him from the pearl.
• Xu Shang sent True Qi into Pei Ye as he collapsed and helped him recover from the strain.

Pei Ye and Xu Shang deciphered the missing investigator’s notes, learning that a conspiracy used Heart Amber and stolen sword arts to create a True Body. They realized Yan Caiyue might be the next target and examined the sword Zhang Jingbi had used to wound him for clues about the final “bone.”

• Pei Ye concluded that the Soul-Seizing Pearl could speed up learning swordsmanship but could not imprint a sword art directly into someone’s mind.
• Pei Ye read the investigator’s deductions that a Kongtong insider had helped an outside enemy steal sword arts and that the conspirators sought to create a True Body.
• The investigator’s final notes revealed that he had investigated Heart Amber, suspected a sophisticated artifact technique controlled a sword, and chose to warn the threatened True Disciple rather than use him as bait.
• Pei Ye told Xu Shang that the conspirators were seeking the final “bone,” and Xu Shang recognized that Yan Caiyue resembled their earlier victim, Ji Feng.
• Pei Ye asked whether Kongtong swords could identify their owners, and Xu Shang opened the hilt of Zhang Jingbi’s sword to inspect it.

Pei Ye uncovered a link between Zhang Jingbi’s death and the old case of Ji Feng, while Gan Zifeng set a trap for the suspected killer at Immortal Bridge Peak. The Law Enforcement Hall identified a visitor who had not yet left, as Yan Caiyue’s friends learned that his Meridian Tree could not recover.

• Pei Ye showed Xu Shang the sword Zhang Jingbi had chosen and said he would report the suspected murder to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Gan Zifeng told Zhao Cheng that he believed a Kongtong disciple was involved in the killings and planned to compare visitors to Immortal Bridge Peak with the list from Ji Feng’s case.
• Gan Zifeng and Zhao Cheng compared the seven-year-old visitor list with the current one and found a matching name belonging to someone still on the peak.
• Kong Yinshan, Shi Yinglin, and another disciple left Yan Caiyue’s courtyard after visiting him, and Shi Yinglin revealed that the Medical Hall had determined Yan Caiyue’s Meridian Tree could not recover.
• Kong Yinshan and the other girl learned that Yan Caiyue secretly wrote storybooks after Shi Yinglin mentioned his hidden interest.

After Yan Caiyue was murdered despite the Law Enforcement Hall’s precautions, Gan Zifeng ordered a wider search for the disguised spy. Meanwhile, Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting sneaked toward the Law Hall Rear Cliff to visit Jingbi, but became lost in its fog and continued descending toward the bottom.

• Shi Yinglin was detained after Zhao Cheng explained that the Law Enforcement Hall suspected someone wanted to harm Yan Caiyue.
• Yan Caiyue’s body fell from Cloud Terrace Cliff, and Gan Zifeng’s search party found him dead despite the peak being sealed.
• Gan Zifeng ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to search its own personnel and the area around the cliff for a spy using Disguise.
• Guan Qianyan persuaded Kong Lanting to sneak into the Law Hall Rear Cliff to keep Jingbi company.
• Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting lost their way in the dense fog, then continued descending after she revealed she had her father’s Gold Seal.

Kong Lanting and Guan Qianyan encountered a swarm of swords in the fog while searching for Senior Brother Jingbi, but the swords unexpectedly withdrew toward Jia Nine Peak. Meanwhile, Gan Zifeng reconsidered the investigation into the boy's murder and began sketching Yan Caiyue's eyes as memories of an old case resurfaced.

• Kong Lanting and Guan Qianyan crossed the freezing stream and found Jia Nine Peak, where an unseen presence touched Kong Lanting and stole his sword.
• A waterlogged Kongtong longsword attacked Guan Qianyan, but Kong Lanting knocked it away with his scabbard; more swords gathered around them.
• The sword swarm nearly killed Guan Qianyan, then halted and withdrew toward the summit, leaving the pair alive.
• Zhao Cheng told Gan Zifeng that the search had found no way for the killer to enter the cordon or observe from the suspected locations.
• Gan Zifeng recalled Wu Hejian's advice about being led into a case's false logic, then knelt and sketched Yan Caiyue's lifeless eyes.

Gan Zifeng reopened the investigation into Yan Caiyue’s death and realized the evidence might connect the old case of Ji Feng’s death to Xi Tianji and Jiang Yitong. Meanwhile, Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting reached Jiajiu Pillar and ventured toward the prison where Jingbi was held.

• Gan Zifeng concluded Yan Caiyue had likely jumped from the cliff after learning his Meridian Tree was ruined, rather than having his soul seized by a killer.
• Zhao Cheng found Xi Tianji’s name in the visitors’ register, and Gan Zifeng ordered the investigation to examine who could have told Yan Caiyue the news.
• Gan Zifeng learned that Origin Martial Peak had been assigned patrol duty when Ji Feng fell, and that Jiang Yitong had likely represented the peak.
• Gan Zifeng learned Xi Tianji and Jiang Yitong were guarding the rear cliff, while Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting reached Jiajiu Pillar.
• Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting entered the deserted caves and headed for the stone prison where Jingbi was held, then both suddenly stopped.

Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting discovered that the prison guards had been attacked and followed the blood trail to find Zhang Jingbi being tortured as part of a soul-stealing ritual. They learned that Xi Tianji and Jiang Yitong were behind the plot, and the chapter ended with Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting helplessly watching Xi Tianji approach Zhang Jingbi.

• Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting found the duty room abandoned, its magical alarm artifact activated, and signs of a violent struggle.
• They followed the tunnel and encountered Xi Tianji, who initially told them to leave but changed course after Kong Lanting mentioned a living sword in the valley.
• At the cave mouth, they found Mo Chang dead, Zhang Jingbi nailed to the wall, and Jiang Yitong preparing an Engraved Formation with Painting Liquid.
• Jiang Yitong struck Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting down, while Xi Tianji asked what to do with them and then helped prepare the ritual.
• Guan Qianyan recognized the scene as the Soul-Seizing Sword-Stealing scheme and realized she could not stop Xi Tianji from extracting Zhang Jingbi's soul.