Recaps

Ye Ningshuang returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect with her Third Grandmaster, who clashed with Ying Huaixu and was beaten by He Xixiang before Lü Qingyi intervened. Lü Qingyi ordered the old man to stay in the sect, then returned home injured and began regulating her breathing.

• Ye Ningshuang challenged the old man's attempt to lecture her and revealed that her master was Lü Qingyi, causing him to abandon his plan and identify himself as her Third Grandmaster.
• Ying Huaixu reproached Ye Ningshuang for killing people without bringing him along, and she promised to include him next time.
• The Third Grandmaster examined Ying Huaixu, insulted him, and provoked him to message He Xixiang for help.
• He Xixiang attacked the Third Grandmaster, but Lü Qingyi stopped her and persuaded her to spare him because his treasury could benefit Ying Huaixu.
• Lü Qingyi ordered the Third Grandmaster to settle in the sect, then returned to her residence and began regulating her breathing after blood escaped her mouth.

Lü Qingyi worried that Ying Huaixu’s conflict with the third martial uncle would provoke He Xixiang, but found Ying Huaixu content and persuaded He Xixiang to let the old man live. The sect’s leaders explained that Ying Huaixu had become so indispensable that they feared the sect itself might be at fault if he ever turned against it.

• After recovering from He Xixiang’s strike, Lü Qingyi went to Tianqu Peak to calm the situation and discovered Ying Huaixu was happily resting in He Xixiang’s lap.
• Lü Qingyi warned that the third martial uncle held the key to their master’s treasury, and Ying Huaixu persuaded He Xixiang not to punish him further.
• Ying Huaixu declined personal compensation and said he wanted the Divine Firmament Sword Sect to grow stronger.
• He Xixiang told Ying Huaixu to reach the Spirit Sea Realm so she could teach him her signature skills, and a master-disciple mission was automatically accepted.
• Inside the sect’s small world, Zhuang Mu and Tong Xinran told the old man that Ying Huaixu’s pills and talismans had made him indispensable to the sect and warned him not to insult Ying Huaixu.

The old man criticized the sect’s changes and Ye Ningshuang’s path, but Zhuang Mu and the other peak masters defended their choices and Ying Huaixu. As Zhuang Mu showed him the sect’s new disciple tokens, cheap pills, talismans, and magical-artifact shortages, the old man struggled to understand the changes and Ying Huaixu’s generosity.

• The old man challenged Zhuang Mu over Ye Ningshuang, but Zhuang Mu and Meng Wuya questioned his assumptions and defended her cultivation and actions.
• Tong Xinran reminded the old man that he had opposed Junior Sister Qingyi’s reforms before and urged him to stay in the small world, then the other peak masters left him with Zhuang Mu.
• Several days later, Zhuang Mu showed the old man disciple tokens that enabled remote chatting and trading, including purchases delivered from the tokens’ storage spaces.
• At the pill-refining room, Zhuang Mu explained that Ying Huaixu supplied supreme-quality Spirit-Shaping Pills using his own herbs and sold them cheaply to support the disciples.
• The old man saw disciples buying talismans in bulk for the illusory dream trial and heard that the Artifact Refining Room could not meet demand because Ying Huaixu had not learned artifact refining.

The old man disguised himself as a disciple to investigate the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s sudden enthusiasm for training, then tried the illusory dream trial and was instantly defeated by Ying Huaixu. He kept spending spirit stones to challenge her again, while the disciples warned him not to question Sister Ying’s strength.

• The old man returned to the Sword Tower with Zhuang Mu and was stunned to find disciples eagerly competing to enter it.
• Zhuang Mu explained that the Sword Tower had become a shortcut to improving strength, then told others that Third Martial Uncle was mingling with the disciples.
• Disguised as a disciple, the old man learned that entrants were expected to pass the illusory dream trial first and watched Senior Brother Erniu celebrate clearing He Xiuyuan’s stage.
• The old man went to the illusory dream trial, selected Ridiculous difficulty, chose Ying Huaixu, and was defeated almost immediately.
• The old man repeatedly spent spirit stones to challenge Ying Huaixu again, and the disciples told him to stop questioning Sister Ying’s strength.

An old man challenged the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s Illusory Dream Trial and struggled against its disciples, eventually passing He Xiuyuan’s Hard difficulty trial. He learned the sect’s genius rankings just as the bell called all disciples to assemble.

• The old man tried increasingly difficult trials, but Ye Ningshuang, Ying Huaixu, Huang Tianqi, and Qiu Shiyi defeated him.
• He Xiuyuan repeatedly killed the old man until he learned to cast faster, eliminate hand seals, and strengthen his divine sense.
• After many attempts, the old man finally passed He Xiuyuan’s trial, and the disciples cheered and asked how he had improved.
• The disciples explained that He Xiuyuan was the Hard difficulty threshold, while the old man qualified as an earth-grade genius.
• The sect bell rang, summoning all disciples to assemble.

Lü Qingyi announced a tournament to choose the hundred disciples who could enter the Cold Pool Secret Realm, while Ying Huaixu watched from the stands and assessed the sect’s progress. Huang Tianqi ultimately won the tournament, revealing that his spatial artistic conception made him far stronger than the other disciples expected.

• Lü Qingyi announced that only the top one hundred disciples in the tournament could enter the Cold Pool Secret Realm, while Ye Ningshuang and Ying Huaixu sat out as spectators.
• Lü Qingyi told Ying Huaixu that Li Shuangshuang had joined the Divine Firmament Sword Sect as an ordinary Inner Sect disciple and now had Qi Sea cultivation.
• Ying Huaixu agreed to evaluate the disciples during the tournament and share suggestions for improving their strength with Lü Qingyi.
• The disciples fought fiercely, and the top one hundred advanced to compete for special rewards and places in the top ten.
• Third Martial Uncle secretly entered the top ten in disguise, while He Xiuyuan was quickly defeated and finished at the bottom.
• Huang Tianqi won the tournament, surprising the disciples, who cursed him for hiding his strength; he credited his powerful spatial artistic conception.

After the competition, Ying Huaixu planned to improve his disciples’ teamwork in the Cold Pool Secret Realm and secretly secured life-saving and combat treasures for them. Lü Qingyi handed out the gifts as rewards from the sect, insisting they had nothing to do with Sister Ying.

• The disciples accepted their losses without jealousy, crediting Ying Huaixu’s encouragement and help for their growing confidence and strength.
• Third Martial Uncle left after worrying that Ying Huaixu might die young, and Zhuang Mu informed Lü Qingyi of his departure.
• Ying Huaixu proposed training the disciples in team battles, and Lü Qingyi suggested they test their teamwork in the Cold Pool Secret Realm.
• Ying Huaixu decided to seek the Nine-Leaf Nether Soul Lotus for Ye Ningshuang and traded Spirit Leaves for life-saving treasures for every disciple entering the secret realm.
• Ying Huaixu also gave Lü Qingyi defensive and attack talisman treasures to distribute, asking her to credit the sect rather than him.
• Lü Qingyi distributed the treasures as sect rewards and told the disciples they had nothing to do with Sister Ying.

Lü Qingyi freed He Xixiang and asked her to watch over the sect while she recovered in seclusion, then Ying Huaixu discovered that sharing food and drink with immortals granted him enormous experience. The chapter ended with Lü Qingyi suppressing the dangerous surge of power after Ying Huaixu drank from her teacup and asking how long he expected to be bedridden.

• Lü Qingyi released He Xixiang from her restrictions and told her to guard the Divine Firmament Sword Sect while she entered seclusion to restore her peak condition.
• Lü Qingyi warned He Xixiang not to advance or attempt the Heavenly Tribulation, and He Xixiang agreed to watch over the sect.
• Ying Huaixu returned, and He Xixiang scolded him for giving Lü Qingyi too many Spirit Leaves before soothing him and offering him mysterious blood-red fruits.
• Ying Huaixu gained 100,000 experience when he took a fruit He Xixiang had put in her mouth, then hurried to test whether an immortal's contact caused the effect.
• Ying Huaixu drank from Lü Qingyi's teacup and gained experience repeatedly until a connection error appeared and his body began to swell.
• Lü Qingyi restored Ying Huaixu to normal and asked how many days he planned to spend in bed.

After discovering that Ying Huaixu carried an unknown, pure primordial force that could draw the Heavenly Dao’s wrath, Lü Qingyi gave him her sovereign blood to conceal him. She then confronted the chaotic river of time, which revealed that its visions were unreliable and left Ying Huaixu’s future uncertain.

• Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang whipped Ying Huaixu for his misdeeds, while Fawn found unusual energy in the spiritual energy stripped from him.
• Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang identified the energy as primordial force, feared the Heavenly Dao might erase Ying Huaixu or imprison him, and He Xixiang set out to find a way to hide him.
• Lü Qingyi refined her own sovereign blood into a rainbow-colored pearl and gave it to He Xixiang for Ying Huaixu to wear.
• Lü Qingyi looked into the river of time and saw misleading phantom figures beside Ye Ningshuang, including visions of Ying Huaixu holding her, He Xixiang, and Lao Zhuang.
• Lü Qingyi shattered the illusions and seized the river of time, which admitted its chaos contained no reliable outcomes; she released it and warned it not to show her such nonsense again.

With Lü Qingyi in seclusion, Zhuang Mu pulled the peak masters into handling the sect’s affairs, exposing shortages and unresolved problems. Ying Huaixu’s advice helped the Discipline Peak Master improve the sect’s defenses, while Zhuang Mu proposed recruiting new ascendants to work in the spirit stone mines.

• Lü Qingyi entered seclusion, and Zhuang Mu found himself overwhelmed by the sect affairs she had managed.
• Zhuang Mu summoned the peak masters, including Third Martial Uncle, to help review and approve the backlog of reports.
• The Artifact Refining Peak Master realized the sect relied on Lü Qingyi’s purchases to cover a shortage of magical artifacts and considered asking Ying Huaixu to learn artifact refining.
• The Discipline Peak Master asked the Disciples' Plaza how to detect conscious puppets, and Ying Huaixu suggested using a mind-detecting formation linked to the Sin-Severing Grand Formation.
• The Discipline Peak Master decided to modify the Questioning Heart Formation based on Ying Huaixu’s suggestion, earning Ying Huaixu fifty thousand experience points.
• Zhuang Mu suggested having newly ascended cultivators work in the spirit stone mines as a way to give them a place to start.

Third Martial Uncle warned the sect that Ying Huaixu would need extensive preparations for his future heavenly tribulations, while the sect also considered the dangers awaiting the disciples in the Cold Pool Secret Realm. Later, the Artifact Refining Peak master recruited Ying Huaixu to refine artifacts, and Ying accepted after receiving a mission.

• Third Martial Uncle questioned whether the sect had planned Ye Ningshuang's training and cautioned that Ying Huaixu might attack disciples from other sects in the Cold Pool Secret Realm.
• Meng Wuya argued that Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang could handle the secret realm's dangers because both were invincible within the Sea of Qi Realm.
• Third Martial Uncle explained that Ying Huaixu's future tribulations would require soul-restoring treasures, healing resources, and materials to rebuild his body, since Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang could not intervene.
• Lao Zhuang ordered the sect to search for the needed treasures, while Third Martial Uncle said he had only one set of preparations to share with Ye Ningshuang.
• The Artifact Refining Peak master abducted Ying Huaixu and begged him to learn artifact refining, and Ying accepted after receiving a sect mission with rewards.

Ying Huaixu rapidly advanced his Artifact Refining by producing magical equipment with an enchanted hammer, then joined Qiu Shiyi on a mission to recruit ascenders in Ascension City as sect miners. There, he found the ascenders' cultivation realms high but their combat strength strangely weak.

• Ying Huaixu crafted a supreme-quality Flowing Cloud Sword and began mass-producing weapons with a hammer he instructed to work by itself.
• Ying Huaixu completed his Artifact Refining quest, collected its rewards, and planned to return the next day.
• The Pill Peak Master and Artifact Peak Master repeatedly abducted Ying Huaixu over the following days, but Qiu Shiyi eventually came to recruit him for a mission.
• Qiu Shiyi told Ying Huaixu that they would bring ascenders back to the sect to mine, and Ying Huaixu accepted the event quest.
• Qiu Shiyi took Ying Huaixu and other Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to Ascension City, where Ying Huaixu noticed that its ascenders seemed weak despite their high cultivation realms.

Qiu Shiyi recounted how Ying Huaixu had repeatedly defeated him in the Illusory Dream Trial, then helped the Divine Firmament Sword Sect capture newly ascended cultivators and send them to work in its mines. Ying Huaixu examined the weak newcomers and was so impressed by the miners’ terms that he asked to join them.

• Qiu Shiyi explained that Ye Ningshuang’s healing and Ying Huaixu’s Frost Concept made them nearly impossible to defeat in the Illusory Dream Trial.
• The Ascension Formation activated, and Qiu Shiyi ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to surround the newly arrived ascenders.
• A newly ascended man resisted being assigned to the mines, so a sect disciple knocked him unconscious and gave the newcomers miner’s tokens.
• Ying Huaixu noticed that the ascenders’ converted Spirit Sea cultivation was exceptionally weak and their techniques seemed poor.
• Qiu Shiyi brought the ascenders to the mine, where the steward explained their ore shares and rewards for turning in treasures.
• Ying Huaixu asked the mine steward if he could join the miners, but the steward dismissed the question as a joke.

Ying Huaixu watched newly ascended cultivators mine and considered recruiting promising prospects for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. By the end of the day, only the young man whose parchment Ying Huaixu had returned had found Spirit Crystals, leaving the screening unfinished.

• Ying Huaixu inspected the miners’ hidden treasures, took a young man’s technique-improving parchment, then returned it along with a bottle of Body Tempering Pills.
• Ying Huaixu decided to watch the miners for two more days and recruit those who showed promise, while the overseer explained that finding a Spirit Crystal within three days would mark someone as talented.
• Disciples killed several miners who tried to steal the young man’s pills, and Ying Huaixu rewarded the guards with supreme-quality Spirit Tempering Pills.
• Ying Huaixu froze the disciples who showed off their muscles in front of him after learning they were attracted to his portrait and the nickname Sister Ying.
• Ying Huaixu reviewed the day’s mining results and found that nearly everyone had returned empty-handed, while the young man had dug out two Spirit Crystals.

Ying Huaixu treated the new Ascenders fairly, letting miners leave and giving them a share of their earnings, while Fellow Daoist Chen learned that their work and Divine Firmament Sword Sect tokens offered protection and a chance to join the outer sect. At the Market, an old man told the Ascenders they were in the Hongmeng World and urged them to make the most of their opportunity.

• Ying Huaixu praised a young miner’s physique and arranged Body Tempering Pills for the miners, while the young man took his payment entirely in pills.
• Ying Huaixu let miners who wanted to leave go freely, recruited more Ascenders, and promised the newcomers they could leave after three days.
• Fellow Daoist Chen told the miners that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s tokens protected them and urged them to keep working toward joining the outer sect.
• The Ascenders visited the Market, saw cultivators pause their fight rather than risk harming people bearing the sect’s tokens, and felt the Meridian Opening cultivators’ pressure.
• An old man told the Ascenders that they were in the Hongmeng World, not the Immortal Realm, and advised them to make the most of their chance to work for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

An old miner explained why the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s mines were far better than those of other sects, then sold the new ascenders Summoning Tokens so their loved ones could ascend there. Ying Huaixu saw the ascenders’ hard work and decided to select twenty for promotion to the Outer Sect based on their mining results.

• The old man told the ascenders about the abuse miners faced in other sects and said the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s treatment was like paradise.
• The old man traded Summoning Tokens for more than thirty supreme-quality Body Tempering Pills, and the ascenders sent the tokens to people they cared about.
• The ascenders urged their loved ones in the lower worlds to ascend quickly and request work as miners in the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Ying Huaixu and his steward noted the ascenders’ determination and poor spiritual roots as the ascenders worked and trained hard.
• Ying Huaixu ordered that twenty ascenders would be promoted to the Outer Sect within the month based on their mining results.

Ying Huaixu spent over seven hundred thousand Supreme Spirit Stones to prepare twenty foundation-rebuilding pills and offered twenty ascenders a chance to enter the Outer Sect. Their fierce competition drew a growing crowd to the mine, where the surge in ore production overwhelmed the steward and alarmed the Outer Disciples.

• Ying Huaixu told the steward to select twenty ascenders for the Outer Sect and refined twenty pills to rebuild their foundations.
• The steward announced the opportunity to the miners, and Fellow Daoist Chen explained that rebuilding their foundations was essential for ascenders to overcome their low potential.
• The miners worked frantically, raising daily Spirit Crystal output from a few hundred jin to several thousand.
• More ascenders voluntarily arrived to mine and pay respects to Ying Huaixu, pushing production beyond ten thousand jin a day.
• The steward reported the labor shortage, so General Affairs Peak sent Outer Disciples to help tally the ore.
• The Outer Disciples saw the ascenders' fierce competition and resolved to work harder themselves.

The ascenders’ frenzy at the mine spurred the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s Outer Disciples to cultivate harder, while Zhuang Mu prepared to appoint Ying Huaixu as Holy Son and grant him authority equal to the Sect Master. The peak masters then faced another mountain of paperwork about the mine’s resources and worked overtime to process it.

• After hearing that Ying Huaixu had offered twenty Outer Disciple spots to the ascenders, the Outer Disciples began cultivating frantically, driven by competition and jealousy.
• Zhuang Mu drafted a document naming Ying Huaixu Holy Son and granting him broad authority, while Meng Wuya learned that Zhuang Mu had already decided to appoint him.
• Zhuang Mu defended favoring Ying Huaixu over Ye Ningshuang, arguing that Ying Huaixu had served the sect while Ye Ningshuang’s destiny might serve the wider world instead.
• When Third Martial Uncle objected that Ying Huaixu had no future, Zhuang Mu insisted the sect’s protective formation could help him overcome his tribulation and declared that Ying Huaixu was worth the cost.
• Sword-Questioning Peak delivered another large batch of documents concerning mine resources, so Zhuang Mu and the other peak masters stayed late to approve them.

Ying Huaixu discovered that He Xixiang’s fruit had let him sense and touch space, while the sect’s disciples thwarted his attempts to find ways to change his appearance. Fellow Daoist Chen explained to the Ascenders that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect encouraged strong disciples to help weaker ones.

• Ying Huaixu failed to find appearance-altering pills because sect members had bought or destroyed the supplies, so he gave up on changing his face.
• Ying Huaixu sensed a fragrance coming from his body, tested his new strength, and realized he could touch space after eating He Xixiang’s fruit.
• The Ascenders in the mine earned substantial rewards, and Fellow Daoist Chen drew their attention for mining more than anyone else while gathering information for them.
• Fellow Daoist Chen led the miners to a restaurant and told them that the sect welcomed others’ opportunities and that newly powerful disciples often volunteered to help weaker people.

Chen Zhiyuan sought Ying Huaixu’s favor after hearing about his influence, and earned a place among twenty Ascenders selected to enter the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s outer sect. The remaining Ascenders learned they could still qualify by mining, though the Spirit-Shaping Pill’s enormous cost made them regret not working harder.

• Chen Zhiyuan told Ying Huaixu he wanted to take He Xiuyuan’s place, and Ying Huaixu promised to remember him and discuss it after he reached the Myriad Gates and entered the outer sect.
• A month later, Chen Zhiyuan ranked first in mining contributions, and Ying Huaixu gave him and nineteen other selected Ascenders Spirit-Shaping Pills before leaving them with the steward.
• The twenty Ascenders reshaped their Spiritual Roots, lost their former cultivation, and prepared to report to the outer sect with the steward.
• The steward told the unselected Ascenders that one person could enter the outer sect each month by ranking first in contributions and paying half the pill’s cost.
• The Ascenders learned that a Spirit-Shaping Pill cost a hundred thousand Supreme Spirit Stones, and regretted missing the chance to receive one through Ying Huaixu.

He Xiuyuan grew anxious after seeing Ying Huaixu’s extreme preparations for the Cold Pool Secret Realm, and the selected disciples entered the realm dressed in layers of protective gear. The group set out in tense silence, while Tong Xinran wondered how to answer other sects’ mockery.

• He Xiuyuan worried that he could not overcome his reputation as the threshold, then rushed to prepare after seeing the powerful equipment Ying Huaixu had made for the secret-realm disciples.
• He Xiuyuan received a Substitute Death Token and spent the remaining days trying to strengthen himself, while Ye Ningshuang also gathered defensive items and medicine.
• At the Cold Pool Secret Realm’s opening, Zhuang Mu saw that the disciples had layered themselves in Defensive Talismans and defensive magic artifacts, and He Xiuyuan arrived inside a talisman-covered puppet.
• Ying Huaixu told He Xiuyuan that the secret realm held a single boss with very high stats, increasing He Xiuyuan’s alarm.
• Zhuang Mu sent the silent group on their way, and Tong Xinran considered how to respond when other sects mocked their preparations.

Ying Huaixu saw that the Cold Pool Secret Realm had become an extremely dangerous challenge and urged caution as the sects gathered at its entrance. Tong Xinran’s warning prompted the Great Sun Sacred Ground and the Star-Seizing Sect to prepare defenses too, though other factions mocked them.

• Ying Huaixu checked the map, saw three blood-red warning marks beside the Cold Pool Secret Realm, and grew gravely concerned.
• Tong Xinran brought the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to the entrance, where the other factions arrived and mocked their layers of defensive talismans.
• Tong Xinran warned the assembled factions that the secret realm had changed and advised them to prepare defenses, but most dismissed her warning.
• The Star-Seizing Sect’s leader learned that Tong Xinran was leading the Divine Firmament Sword Sect party and ordered his disciples to equip themselves after hearing the Great Sun Sacred Ground was doing the same.
• Xu Yaoyang ordered the Great Sun Sacred Ground disciples to keep applying defensive talismans and requesting more magical artifacts, telling them, “We have to.”

Tong Xinran opened the altered Cold Pool Secret Realm, which randomly teleported entrants into dangerous locations. Ying Huaixu and He Xiuyuan escaped a pack of red-name wolf demons, while Ying discovered the realm was full of powerful monsters and raid bosses; Ye Ningshuang, meanwhile, was teleported directly to a Nine-Leaf Nether Soul Lotus and contracted with its guardian.

• Tong Xinran warned the sects that the Cold Pool Secret Realm had changed, opened it with a small seal, and explained that entrants would be teleported to random locations.
• Ying Huaixu held back from entering and made He Xiuyuan go first, then followed after He Xiuyuan reported finding an opportunity.
• Ying Huaixu and He Xiuyuan landed together and fled a pack of red-name wolf demons, discovering that flying was forbidden inside the realm.
• Ying Huaixu checked the map and found dense red-name monster icons, black-skull raid bosses, and a world boss, then decided to gather their sect's disciples and find Ye Ningshuang.
• Ye Ningshuang told Ying Huaixu that she had been teleported to a Nine-Leaf Nether Soul Lotus and had apparently contracted with its guardian, a tiny black-purple kitten.

Ying Huaixu rescued He Xiuyuan after a strange beast swallowed his puppet, then led him to a frost cave where they gathered innate qi and cultivated. Ying Huaixu advanced the Snow-Tempering Scripture and prepared to spend his remaining experience on his realm.

• Ying Huaixu tracked He Xiuyuan to a pool, where He Xiuyuan revealed a treasure-filled air pocket beneath the water, and they collected its treasures.
• A strange beast returned to the pool, forcing He Xiuyuan to abandon his puppet and flee in his real body; Ying Huaixu's rescue mission was completed when they reunited.
• Ying Huaixu led He Xiuyuan to a frost-filled cave and killed its Frost Giant Bear after He Xiuyuan was thrown out of the cave.
• He Xiuyuan sealed the cave entrance while he cultivated innate metal qi, and Ying Huaixu absorbed innate ice spirit qi.
• Ying Huaixu advanced the Snow-Tempering Scripture to Snow-Section Mind Method, then resolved to spend his remaining experience on his realm.

Ying Huaixu regrouped the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples and helped He Xiuyuan fight demonic beasts in the Cold Pool Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Huang Tianqi’s group rescued other sect disciples from mandrills, while the Star-Seizing Sect remained trapped by a giant python.

• Ying Huaixu advanced to the Sea of Qi third level, confirmed that all the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples were alive, and sent them a location to regroup.
• He Xiuyuan awakened an immortal-grade spiritual root after absorbing Innate Metal Qi, then drew a pack of black gorillas before Ying Huaixu killed them with one sword strike.
• Ying Huaixu and He Xiuyuan continued hunting demonic beasts, with Ying Huaixu urging He Xiuyuan to grow stronger.
• Huang Tianqi traded to save a group besieged by mandrills, then restrained the beasts while Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples killed them.
• The rescued disciples crushed their tokens and left the secret realm, while the Star-Seizing Sect disciples stayed trapped in a hollow tree as a giant python attacked.
• Senior Brother Nangong told the Star-Seizing Sect disciples with damaged defenses to escape and prepared to fight the python with the rest.