Recaps

Xu Yaoyang learned that the Outsiders’ Divine Weapons were immensely powerful and that Ying Huaixu might face the Seventh, so he entered the Dream Continent to investigate. After days of testing strange lapses and changes, he saw his own corpse being carried away, leaving the Golden Crow Woman unable to see what he was thinking.

• The Golden Crow Woman told Xu Yaoyang that the Outsiders’ Divine Weapons were ruler-like beings of overwhelming strength, and that the Seventh was connected to Heart-Questioning Valley.
• Xu Yaoyang passed the intelligence to Ying Huaixu, formed a special connection with the Golden Crow Woman, and entered the Dream Continent after she warned him to beware of An Ruoyun.
• Xu Yaoyang experienced blurred vision and unease in the Dream Continent, then secretly tested whether his injuries and clothes would change while pretending nothing was wrong.
• Xu Yaoyang saw a covered corpse being carried away and realized its torn sleeve matched the clothes he had worn, making him suspect that he was dead.
• The Golden Crow Woman sensed Xu Yaoyang’s thoughts but could no longer access his view because he was deliberately blocking her.

The Golden Crow Woman realized that the Xu Yaoyang who had emerged from the Dream Continent was not the one connected to her, and attacked him. Tai Wangshu stopped them and explained that he was a separate version of Xu Yaoyang, possibly created as a joke by the Seventh Divine Weapon.

• The Golden Crow Woman tried to reach Xu Yaoyang in the Dream Continent, but he stopped her, and the Great Sun Saint Lord refused to investigate.
• A Xu Yaoyang emerged from the Dream Continent, but the Golden Crow Woman recognized that he lacked their mental link and attacked him.
• Tai Wangshu arrived, sealed the Golden Crow Woman and Xu Yaoyang, and sent the onlookers away.
• Tai Wangshu explained that the Xu Yaoyang before them was a separate version with Xu Yaoyang's essence, then demonstrated the ability by splitting a squirrel's essence into an identical, independently thinking squirrel.
• The Golden Crow Woman asked whether the Seventh Divine Weapon had caused it, and Tai Wangshu said it might be playing a joke.

Tai Wangshu realized a strange power had affected her and the Golden Crow woman, so she brought them into the Dream Continent and searched for the Golden Crow woman’s real husband. There, she found many Xu Yaoyang corpses and marked the Golden Crow woman while investigating them.

• Tai Wangshu felt her heart race, sensed she must not use Laws, and took the Golden Crow woman and the split-off Xu Yaoyang into the Dream Continent.
• Tai Wangshu explained that the Golden Crow woman had also fallen victim to the strange power, then used the Restoration Art to turn Xu Yaoyang back into essence and gave him to her.
• Tai Wangshu blasted open graves in a mass graveyard, revealing numerous corpses with Xu Yaoyang’s face, each with a different manner of death.
• Tai Wangshu noticed that one corpse’s wounds were not fatal and seemed deliberately left by Xu Yaoyang, then secretly marked and lightly injured the Golden Crow woman.
• The Golden Crow woman told Tai Wangshu that Outsiders had made Ying Huaixu into toys, but Tai Wangshu dismissed the replicas as fakes and said his bloodline could not truly be copied.

Tai Wangshu explained that the Outsiders had deliberately let the Golden Crow Woman escape and revealed that she had anticipated being drawn into Dream Province. After Xu Yaoyang and the Golden Crow Woman reunited, Tai Wangshu’s experiment exposed that Xu Yaoyang had died and revived in a new body, while her protection had prevented the Golden Crow Woman from truly dying.

• Tai Wangshu told the Golden Crow Woman that the Outsiders had sent her back with useful information to bind her to Xu Yaoyang and the Golden Crow, and admitted she had knowingly entered Dream Province despite the trap.
• Tai Wangshu and the Golden Crow Woman found Xu Yaoyang skeletal and near death, and Tai Wangshu gave him a pill that restored his strength.
• The next day, Tai Wangshu discovered that one of her Revival Pills had been used and learned that Xu Yaoyang had spent the night with the Golden Crow Woman’s corpse, believing she was present.
• Xu Yaoyang sensed the Golden Crow Woman in a coffin beside another corpse and angrily confronted her before realizing the corpse was his own.
• Tai Wangshu explained that Xu Yaoyang had died and revived in a new body, while her life-saving protection had absorbed the Golden Crow Woman’s death, and the couple learned she had orchestrated the experiment.

In Dream Continent, Tai Wangshu investigated the strange deaths and revivals, discovering that unseen injuries triggered death and that a spreading red power could defeat even Revival Pills. She warned Xu Yaoyang and the Golden Crow Woman that their wavering resolve was bringing them closer to true death, and wondered whether Heart-Questioning Valley was resisting the power.

• Tai Wangshu noticed Dream Continent’s people carried faint red spiritual energy and decided to observe them again the next day.
• After Xu Yaoyang died and returned with stronger red aura, Tai Wangshu injured someone she had been watching and found that the person and Xu Yaoyang both died the following day.
• Tai Wangshu concluded that even the momentary blurring of their vision counted as an injury and that their lives were already in someone else’s hands.
• Xu Yaoyang used two Revival Pills and returned the next day without red aura, but Tai Wangshu’s mouse died permanently despite receiving a pill, revealing that the red power could prevent revival once it fully replaced someone’s power.
• Tai Wangshu saw red flames beginning to burn in Xu Yaoyang’s and the Golden Crow Woman’s hearts, warned that their faltering Dao hearts put them near true death, and wondered if Heart-Questioning Valley had been resisting the power.

Tai Wangshu stayed away from Heart-Questioning Valley while an unseen attack rapidly consumed the group’s Revival Pills, and she secretly laid a formation as Xu Yaoyang and the Golden Crow Woman went to scout ahead. At Dream Continent’s border, Ying Huaixu uncovered a projection of Tai Wangshu’s ordeal, leaving him and the others questioning why Shura Hall had not found the danger.

• Tai Wangshu, Xu Yaoyang, and the Golden Crow Woman endured increasingly frequent deaths as the red aura spread and their Revival Pills dwindled.
• Tai Wangshu refused to go to Heart-Questioning Valley yet, then allowed Xu Yaoyang and the Golden Crow Woman to scout it while she secretly formed a Taiji formation through her wandering.
• Tai Wangshu stopped automatically supplying the Golden Crow Woman with Revival Pills and ignored Xu Yaoyang’s messages claiming Heart-Questioning Valley offered safety.
• Ying Huaixu arranged rocks at Dream Continent’s border and revealed a projection showing Tai Wangshu’s experiences and the deadly trap.
• Huang Tianqi, Qiu Shiyi, and Chen Zhiyuan discussed the projection’s missing details and wondered whether the red aura made its victims’ words unreliable.

Chen Zhiyuan and Ying Huaixu learned that the Dream Continent was a trap designed to prevent powerful beings from intervening while the Seventh Divine Weapon threatened everyone inside. Ying Huaixu realized the coming raid would decide Hongmeng’s fate, and he chose not to stand aside.

• Chen Zhiyuan questioned why the Seventh Divine Weapon had tainted Xu Yaoyang and investigated Heart-Questioning Valley’s state-of-mind cultivation.
• Ying Huaixu could not enter the Dream Continent because Tai Wangshu’s Taiji Diagram blocked his path, so Huang Tianqi volunteered to scout it.
• Huang Tianqi entered the Dream Continent, sensed its layered spatial barriers and self-destruct mechanism, and relayed his findings to Ying Huaixu and the others.
• Qiu Shiyi and Chen Zhiyuan concluded that the outsiders had prepared the trap to stop interference and kill Hongmeng’s cultivators before their descent.
• Ying Huaixu realized the raid would involve every Tribulation Transcendence cultivator and that doing nothing would forfeit their chance to compete, so he refused to watch others die.

Ying Huaixu concluded that the Outsiders were stalling to keep him from acting while the Seventh Divine Weapon’s power grew, so he ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect to kill every Outsider in Primordial Chaos. The sect launched a sweeping hunt, leaving the Outsiders under attack across the region.

• Ying Huaixu connected the Outsiders’ behavior, Ye Ningshuang’s absence, and the early Blood Sacrifice Array quests, and realized the Outsiders were trying to make him hesitate and buy time.
• Ying Huaixu ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect to kill Outsiders on sight and provided a map marking their locations.
• Dao Seal-stage and stronger disciples poured out of the sect, using the map and Red Exclamation Marks to hunt Outsiders without investigating further.
• The disciples competed to kill the most Outsiders while Rogue Cultivators watched in fear as the hunt turned into a massacre.
• The disciples saw through a disguised monster’s act, surrounded it, and killed it after its true form was exposed.

Ying Huaixu’s guess proved correct, and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect continued hunting the Outsiders across Primordial Chaos. In Yingchun City, a veiled woman who had returned to the Hongmeng World sought revenge on an Outsider, then drew the sect disciples’ suspicion by using Lü Qingyi’s cultivation technique.

• Ying Huaixu confirmed that blood energy was gathering toward Heart-Questioning Valley and ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to kill the Outsiders.
• The disciples tracked down and slaughtered Outsiders across Primordial Chaos, while locals grew accustomed to their attacks and the disguised Outsiders fled.
• A veiled woman watched the fighting from Ten Thousand Flowers Tower and told her maid that the Outsiders’ rule had involved horrors worse than the sect’s killings.
• The woman asked a Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple to let her punish an Outsider, then stabbed the captive until they took their own life.
• A Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple recognized the woman’s Shenxiao Dao Evolution True Art and the surrounding disciples demanded to know how she knew Lü Qingyi’s technique.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect investigated a woman who claimed to have learned her cultivation from Ye Ningshuang in the future, then confirmed her story by making her relive her future memories. Ying Huaixu ordered the disciples to take her to Shenxiao and care for her while they continued eliminating outsiders.

• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect sealed Yingchun City and questioned the woman, who said her master was Ye Ningshuang from the future.
• The disciples used an upgraded simulated Heart-Questioning Array to witness the woman's life in a devastated future and verified her account with two further trials.
• The disciples sent the woman's information to Ying Huaixu, who noted that parts of her visions did not match the present and ordered her taken to Shenxiao.
• Four or five disciples escorted the woman to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect while the others pursued outsiders.
• The Nine-Color Kings decided to avoid Ying Huaixu because they feared he would search for them.

After the Divine Firmament Sword Sect exposed how outsiders were draining the Hongmeng World's spiritual energy, natives across the Primordial Chaos turned against them, though most could not fight them. The outsiders tried to stop Ying Huaixu from learning more, but he received the research results and began to think.

• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect and other factions purged outsider spies, leaving Shura Hall, the Taiyin Sacred Land, and many smaller groups badly depleted.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect discovered that outsiders' blood enriched the land and helped lingzhi grow, and its Research Academy found that the blood contained spiritual energy that had once belonged to the Hongmeng World.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect refined pills from plants grown after the outsiders died, and a Body Tempering cultivator's physique and foundation improved after taking one.
• Natives across the Primordial Chaos grew furious at the outsiders for taking their world's spiritual energy, but they found themselves unable to defeat the fleeing outsiders.
• Outsiders beyond the Primordial Chaos realized Ying Huaixu had ordered the hunt for their decoys and told the Nine-Color Kings to sabotage the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's research while keeping the woman who controlled fate away from the sect.
• Ying Huaixu received the research results, and the outsiders feared he would uncover more of their plans.

The Outsider titans ordered the Divine Weapons to kill Ying Huaixu in Heart-Questioning Valley, while he uncovered signs that Hongmeng World’s laws had been sealed and inferred that the valley held something crucial to the world’s future. He concluded that Heart-Questioning Valley was a raid-like opportunity with enormous rewards, despite the danger meant to deter Hongmeng’s people.

• The titans discovered they could not locate the Nine-Color Kings, then accidentally alerted Ye Ningshuang to their position while trying to contact them.
• The Beast God argued that Ying Huaixu would still die in Heart-Questioning Valley, and the titans ordered the Divine Weapons to ensure he did not survive.
• Ying Huaixu reviewed the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s intelligence and found that an ice-attribute Spirit Herb had increased his comprehension of Frost Laws.
• Ying Huaixu reasoned that both the Heavenly Dao and the Outsiders had prepared for a major event in Heart-Questioning Valley and that something there would affect what followed.
• Ying Huaixu decided the valley’s extreme difficulty was meant to intimidate people away and likened it to a raid instance offering great rewards.

Ying Huaixu revealed that everyone below True Immortal had to enter Heart-Questioning Valley and survive, then sent allies to prepare for the coming battle. The Dragon Clan and several powerful elders also committed to the fight, while He Xixiang recalled how she had fought the Great Sun Saint Lord and Lü Qingyi.

• Ying Huaixu announced that Heart-Questioning Valley was a deadly trap and urged everyone to decide whether to enter, then ordered Qiu Shiyi and the others to turn Spirit Herb research into strength.
• Ying Huaixu told Chen Zhiyuan to watch Huang Tianqi and left to deal with several Nine-Color Kings.
• The Dragon Clan Princess confirmed Ying Huaixu's warning, and the Ancestral Dragon ordered the clan's resources used to strengthen its members before going beyond the Primordial Chaos Domain.
• The Hall Master of Shura Hall and the Star-Seizing Ancestor joined the Ancestral Dragon beyond the domain, followed by He Xixiang.
• He Xixiang told the elders she had struck the Great Sun Saint Lord over three thousand times, but had never landed a punch on Lü Qingyi.

He Xixiang learned that the Ancestors were guarding the Extraterrestrial Starry Sky against the Outsiders and stayed behind while Lü Qingyi hunted powerful enemies. The Nine-Color Kings tried to reach the Dream Continent, but Ye Ningshuang intercepted them, and Ying Huaixu arrived to join her.

• Ancestral Dragon explained that the Ancestors were guarding against the Outsiders while their disciples trained, and He Xixiang offered to attack the enemy herself.
• The Hall Master of Shura Hall explained that the Ancestors needed He Xixiang to protect them, and she stayed behind after learning Lü Qingyi was hunting powerful Outsiders.
• The Nine-Color Kings hid from Ye Ningshuang, then secretly decided to enter the Dream Continent and target Tai Wangshu.
• The Nine-Color Kings reached the Dream Continent's border, where Ye Ningshuang revealed she had been waiting for them.
• Ying Huaixu descended beside Ye Ningshuang as the Nine-Color Kings prepared to fight.

Ye Ningshuang effortlessly defeated two Nine-Color Kings while Ying Huaixu prolonged his own fight to farm experience. The chapter left Ying Huaixu pretending to struggle as the little Loli and the woman believed they could kill him.

• Ying Huaixu assigned two Nine-Color Kings each to himself and Ye Ningshuang, and Ye Ningshuang took the Three-Headed Dog and Nine-Headed Bird into purple mist.
• Ye Ningshuang’s purple duplicates copied her opponents’ abilities and became immune to their attacks, overwhelming the Three-Headed Dog and Nine-Headed Bird.
• Ye Ningshuang turned both Nine-Color Kings into beads, crushed the Three-Headed Dog’s bead, and killed the Nine-Headed Bird after examining his talent.
• Ye Ningshuang returned to Ying Huaixu’s battle and saw him trading blows evenly with the two Nine-Color Kings.
• Ying Huaixu slowed down to gain experience from the Demonic Beasts and acted exhausted, convincing the little Loli and the woman that he was weaker than expected.

Ying Huaixu toyed with two Nine-Color Kings while secretly gaining experience, but Little Loli’s fusion and the ponytailed woman’s transformation prompted him to activate his Blood-Burning Secret Method. He reached the ninth layer of Return to True, and the ponytailed woman self-destructed, leaving him with an unexpected Immortal Dao reward.

• The ponytailed Nine-Color King and Little Loli attacked Ying Huaixu while he pretended to struggle, and Qiu Shiyi and the Divine Firmament disciples recognized that both sides were acting strategically.
• Ying Huaixu continued fighting the Nine-Color Kings and gained enough experience to reach the ninth layer of Return to True, but kept feigning weakness to collect more.
• Little Loli fused with his selves across Parallel Space-Time to enter War God Form, while the ponytailed woman summoned a Demon Blade and grew horns.
• Ying Huaixu asked whether Little Loli could still use Parallel Space-Time, then activated his Blood-Burning Secret Method and reached the ninth layer of Return to True again.
• The ponytailed Nine-Color King plunged the Demon Blade into her chest and self-destructed, awarding Ying Huaixu Immortal Dao experience and a supreme-quality spirit treasure Demon Blade.

Ying Huaixu discovered that he could not advance beyond Return to True without surviving the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, but the system’s completed recruitment quest gave him a Realm Advancement Pill and a familiar Immortal Sect blueprint. The recruitment had finished after Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang defeated the Nine-Color King, leaving the Divine Firmament Sword Sect overwhelmed with new Ascenders.

• Ying Huaixu bent the Supreme-Quality Spirit Treasure demonic saber until it shattered, then learned that he had to survive the Five Decays of Heaven and Man to advance.
• The system announced that Ying Huaixu had recruited one hundred thousand Ascenders and awarded him a Top-Tier Immortal Sect Creation Blueprint and a Realm Advancement Pill.
• Ying Huaixu recognized the blueprint as a design he had created in Primordial Immortal Cultivation Record, complete with a roof that matched his wishes and a creator name referencing Lü Qingyi.
• Zhuang Mu’s livestream of Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang defeating the Nine-Color King convinced the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and other Ascenders to join Ying Huaixu.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect expanded its Outer Sect to accommodate the recruits and began screening Inner Sect members through Illusory Dream.

The Outsiders’ powerhouses accused the Lord of the Weird Gods of secretly manipulating events around Ying Huaixu, Ye Ningshuang, and White Chalk, but a higher voice shut down their speculation. They then focused on Heart-Questioning Valley and decided to create an Eighth Divine Weapon to counter Huang Tianqi and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

• The Beast God and the other powerhouses accused the Lord of the Weird Gods of setting them up and secretly giving Ye Ningshuang White Chalk’s abilities, but he denied their claims.
• A voice declared that the Lord of the Weird Gods had nothing to do with the matter and warned the powerhouses to focus on Heart-Questioning Valley.
• The Beast God noted that Nine-Color Kings could no longer counter Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang, while the Outsiders could not gauge Huang Tianqi and the other Sword Sect members’ strength.
• The powerhouses weighed the risks of sending too many or too few forces, worrying that Outsider deaths might strengthen Ying Huaixu and that delays could undermine their plans.
• The Ancient Buddha proposed destroying the Nine-Color Kings to create an Eighth Divine Weapon for dealing with Huang Tianqi and the others, and the powerhouses agreed.

An Ruoyun and a mysterious shadow discussed testing Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang, while Ying Huaixu prepared to enter the Dream Continent with allies invited to the Heart-Questioning Grand Gathering. He led the group into the Dream Continent despite warning the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples that people might die.

• An Ruoyun visited a mysterious shadow, who decided to play with Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang rather than kill them outright.
• An Ruoyun and the shadow discussed Tai Wangshu receiving Ye Ningshuang's fortune and considered killing her if necessary.
• Ying Huaixu learned that Heart-Questioning Valley had invited young cultivators from many sects to the Heart-Questioning Grand Gathering.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples told Ying Huaixu they would follow him, even knowing people might die.
• Ying Huaixu led the assembled cultivators into the Dream Continent.

After the expedition entered the Dream Continent, Ying Huaixu and the stronger members mysteriously lost a Revival Pill each, despite seeing no attack or danger. The group split up to investigate Heart-Questioning Valley and find Tai Wangshu, while Ying Huaixu traveled with several companions, including Huang Ergou, who began refining pills to build his alchemy skills.

• Ying Huaixu, Qiu Shiyi, Ye Ningshuang, and the other powerful cultivators discovered that each had lost a Revival Pill upon entering the Dream Continent, while weaker members had not.
• Ying Huaixu learned that Ye Ningshuang's black mist had sensed no attack and could not protect her true form from the mysterious death.
• Tong Xinran proposed splitting the expedition, with one group heading to Heart-Questioning Valley and the other staying with Ying Huaixu to investigate Tai Wangshu.
• Tong Xinran took Qiu Shiyi and Chen Zhiyuan toward Heart-Questioning Valley, while Ye Ningshuang reluctantly stayed with Ying Huaixu after Tong Xinran assured her Tai Wangshu could not become intimate with him.
• Huang Ergou joined Ying Huaixu's group and used Ying Huaixu's relayed system prompts to refine pills, steadily improving their quality.

Ying Huaixu found Tai Wangshu and Huang Tianqi near collapse, then learned that an unseen force was draining their mental energy through the deaths and revivals on the Dream Continent. The group realized that seeking help from the Heart-Questioning Valley might put them under someone’s control, while panic could accelerate the drain.

• Ying Huaixu found Tai Wangshu in a feeble state and revived her and Huang Tianqi with pills.
• Huang Tianqi revealed that he had recently reached Tribulation Transcendence after surviving a spatial tribulation, and Tai Wangshu said she had also broken through.
• Tai Wangshu explained that repeated deaths and revivals had drained her mental energy rather than her soul, and she pointed to the Heart-Questioning Valley as a possible source of answers.
• Huang Tianqi warned that the Heart-Questioning Valley might control them, while relying on Revival Pills could let the unseen force drain their mental energy repeatedly.
• Ying Huaixu realized that fear made the drain faster, withheld the information to avoid causing panic, and tried to calm himself.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples swept the Dream Continent’s demonic beasts away, frightening the locals at first but making life safer and more prosperous. As the locals discovered the disciples were generous despite their fierce manners, Tai Wangshu considered a future with Ying Huaixu, who remained oblivious and unkempt.

• Ying Huaixu gave the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples permission to hunt, and they scattered across the Dream Continent to kill demonic beasts.
• The disciples cleared most of the continent’s beasts in a few days, leaving the locals frightened by their enthusiasm and brutality.
• The locals found life improving as the disciples eliminated threats, paid for goods and meals, and left ordinary people alone.
• A Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple gave a ragged little girl spirit stones for her jade pendant, then bought a rogue cultivator’s jade ruyi scepter and melted it into a hairpin.
• Tai Wangshu imagined settling down with Ying Huaixu, then saw him picking his nose and lamented his lack of concern for his appearance.

Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu discussed the death rule and mental-energy loss trapping them in Dream Province, then discovered that Lü Qingyi had Sealed Tai Wangshu's clothes. The next morning, Ying Huaixu realized that emotional pain could count as an injury under the death rule, and he began studying the sect disciples below for a possible clue.

• Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that the death rule could only be avoided by killing its creator, and that Heart-Questioning Valley might be their best lead despite the risk of a trap.
• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu tried to become intimate, but they could not remove Tai Wangshu's clothes because Lü Qingyi had Sealed them.
• Tai Wangshu guessed that Lü Qingyi might have developed feelings for Ying Huaixu and that Ye Ningshuang's clothes might also have been Sealed.
• The next morning, Tai Wangshu explained that Ying Huaixu's hurt feelings had counted as an injury, costing her more than twenty Revival Pills while he lost only one.
• Tai Wangshu said her techniques had failed to counter the death rule, and Ying Huaixu narrowed his eyes as he watched the disciples below.

Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu suspected the Outsiders were using a Divine Weapon and strange rules to weaken Heart-Questioning Valley before entering Dream Province’s Secret Realm. Ying Huaixu accepted Tai Wangshu’s quest to discover what they were fighting over, but his search for the objective led nowhere, leaving him to test other ways of triggering it.

• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu discussed how the Outsiders might be waiting for the Divine Weapon to kill Heart-Questioning Valley’s fighters before joining the battle.
• Tai Wangshu suggested investigating what Heart-Questioning Valley and her group were fighting for, and Ying Huaixu accepted her quest.
• Tai Wangshu worried that others might exploit Ying Huaixu’s ability to complete quests, but he reassured her that he chose which quests to accept.
• Ying Huaixu followed the quest tracker to three search circles, but he and Tai Wangshu found nothing there, even after searching at night.
• Ying Huaixu ruled out an underground destination and considered trying other actions within the quest circle to trigger the objective.

Ying Huaixu triggered a quest by grilling meat and met Little Glutton, who showed him a recording revealing that Heart-Questioning Valley disciples carried a power sought by rival factions. Tai Wangshu identified that power as Primordial Qi, and the chapter left Little Glutton realizing he might have to fight for it too.

• Ying Huaixu grilled meat inside the quest circle, triggering a quest that brought Little Glutton out of the ground.
• Ying Huaixu gave Little Glutton grilled meat and Artifact Refining material in exchange for information.
• Little Glutton showed Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu a recording of a Rogue Cultivator gaining power after killing a Heart-Questioning Valley disciple before the valley's people killed him.
• Tai Wangshu explained that Primordial Qi was both a status and a means of securing a future path, making it something every faction needed to obtain.
• Ying Huaixu offered to protect Little Glutton, but Little Glutton distrusted his interest in the rat's cloth bag, and Tai Wangshu kicked him away.