Arc 20The Outsiders’ Retreat
Ying Huaixu and his allies tried to draw the Outsiders into battle, while the disciples used simulations to learn how the world might fall without him. The arc ended with Xu Yaoyang meeting a reborn Golden Crow woman, who revealed that the Outsiders had made replicas of Ying Huaixu and might have other uses for the Sixth Divine Weapon.
- Ying Huaixu struggled with the worlds’ fear of Ascenders, while Lü Qingyi urged him to consider their suffering without letting doubt paralyze him.
- The Heavenly Dao showed Lü Qingyi Ying Huaixu’s painful past and explained why she had gambled on him to change the world’s fate.
- He Xiuyuan broke the seals on his talent, defeated the Great Sun Saint Lord’s Divine Sense, and gained the Supreme authority Weapon Lord.
- Ying Huaixu and the Star-Seizing Sect Master searched for Outsiders, then lured a large force into a trap where Zhuang Mu and the others fought with Revival Pills.
- The Star-Seizing Sect Master’s new Divine Ability drove the Outsiders away, and Ying Huaixu found no sign of danger or the Heart-Questioning Instance in Dream Province.
- The disciples simulated lives without Ying Huaixu and repeatedly witnessed the world fall to the Outsiders, learning how much his actions had strengthened Hongmeng.
- Xu Yaoyang helped the Undying Fire Phoenix undergo rebirth, and she hatched as a Little Golden Crow whose fate and cultivation became linked to his.
- The Golden Crow woman agreed to accompany Xu Yaoyang to find Ying Huaixu and warned him that the Outsiders had made Ying Huaixu replicas and might use the Sixth Divine Weapon in other ways.