Recaps

Huang Xiao and Qingfeng discovered that the surviving roots of a Heavenly Immortal Fruit had been kept alive by a formation, and the Soaring Immortal Fruit learned that it could grow toward becoming one. The Soaring Immortal Fruit feared being harvested for pills, and Qingfeng reassured it that Junior Junior Brother would eventually be strong enough to protect it.

• Huang Xiao identified the broken formation and noticed the extraordinary vitality of the short stalk.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit revealed that the stalk was the root of a Heavenly Immortal Fruit and that it could communicate with the surviving roots.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit explained that it could become a Heavenly Immortal Fruit, while Huang Xiao and Qingfeng speculated that the Longevity Daoist had taken the fruit and left its roots behind.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit said the roots had been sustained by the formation and might have been revived using the rare plants gathered there, but they had not recovered after tens of thousands of years.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit worried that powerful experts would harvest it for pills, and Huang Xiao promised to protect it while Qingfeng said Junior Junior Brother would eventually be strong enough to do so.

Huang Xiao, Qingfeng, and Soaring Immortal Fruit concluded that the last Spirit Land’s energy had been channeled into the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s root. Soaring Immortal Fruit tried to merge with the root to strengthen himself, but a fierce surge of vitality erupted before they could tell whether it had worked.

• Qingfeng and Soaring Immortal Fruit connected the Spirit Land’s recent energy fluctuations and the vanished formation to vitality flowing into the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s root.
• Soaring Immortal Fruit proposed attaching himself to the root and merging with it to absorb its stored vitality.
• Huang Xiao agreed to help, and Qingfeng warned Soaring Immortal Fruit to stop if he faced danger.
• Huang Xiao used the Minghong Saber to cut a notch in the root, and Soaring Immortal Fruit rushed to merge with it.
• A fierce surge of vitality erupted from Soaring Immortal Fruit, and Huang Xiao and Qingfeng sensed that something might be wrong.

The Soaring Immortal Fruit struggled to absorb the overwhelming vitality from the Heavenly Immortal Fruit's remaining roots, so Huang Xiao began sharing the burden. After reaching his own limit, Huang Xiao digested some of the vitality and used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to strengthen himself before helping again.

• The Soaring Immortal Fruit warned Qingfeng and Huang Xiao that the vitality flooding into him was becoming too much, but refused to sever his connection to the remaining roots.
• Huang Xiao and Qingfeng waited as the Soaring Immortal Fruit absorbed vitality for two hours, until the escaping vitality signaled that he was nearing his limit.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit asked Huang Xiao to absorb some of the escaping vitality, and Huang Xiao's help steadied the fruit while strengthening his Longevity True Qi.
• After six hours, Huang Xiao reached his limit and withdrew to digest the vitality, while the Soaring Immortal Fruit said he could hold on longer.
• Huang Xiao returned to help share the burden and used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to boost his aura, surprising the Soaring Immortal Fruit.

Huang Xiao used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to manage the overwhelming vitality flowing into the Soaring Immortal Fruit, pushing himself to the sixteenth level before reaching his limit. When the fruit began swelling dangerously, Spirit Land Cold Jade cleared its muddled divine sense, but Huang Xiao doubted the fifteen pieces would last long enough.

• Huang Xiao repeatedly used the fourteenth and fifteenth levels of Heavenly Demon Disintegration to consume vitality, then collapsed after using the fifteenth level three times in succession.
• Over the next three days, Huang Xiao mastered the sixteenth level and briefly reached for the seventeenth, but failed to use it and exhausted his mind.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit told Huang Xiao and Qingfeng to let it continue alone, and Huang Xiao rested while the fruit absorbed more vitality.
• A day later, the Soaring Immortal Fruit swelled to more than three times its original size, and Huang Xiao and Qingfeng urged it to stop.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit asked to use Spirit Land Cold Jade to clear its divine sense, and Huang Xiao brought out fifteen pieces that quickly restored its clarity.
• Huang Xiao estimated that each piece would last about a day; the Soaring Immortal Fruit insisted fifteen days would be enough, but Huang Xiao remained doubtful.

Huang Xiao used the Cold Jade Key to help the Soaring Immortal Fruit endure the immense vitality as it merged with a remnant root. The Soaring Immortal Fruit discovered that accumulating frost could restrain its swelling body, but its Divine Sense remained in danger.

• Huang Xiao set up a formation to keep the Cold Jade Key’s cold from harming the nearby exotic flowers and plants.
• Huang Xiao brought the Cold Jade Key close to the Soaring Immortal Fruit, and frost covered the fruit’s body.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit tested how the frost restrained its swelling and concluded that thicker ice could keep vitality confined so it could absorb it slowly.
• Huang Xiao warned Qingfeng and the Soaring Immortal Fruit that the cold could not prevent the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s Divine Sense from eventually failing.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit accepted that its Divine Sense remained at risk and resolved to keep holding on.

Huang Xiao helped the Soaring Immortal Fruit protect its body and Divine Sense while it absorbed vitality and prepared to merge with a remnant root. He then studied the Cold Jade Key’s formation and discovered how to leave their prison, though the chapter ended before he activated it.

• Huang Xiao proposed that the Soaring Immortal Fruit seal its body in ice and let its Divine Sense rest inside the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit entered the Supreme Ghost Stele and confirmed that it could move its Divine Sense in and out freely.
• Huang Xiao warned the Soaring Immortal Fruit to avoid the Hell Origin Flame and leave the strands of Divine Sense inside untouched.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit sealed its body and the Supreme Ghost Stele in ice while Huang Xiao examined the Cold Jade Key.
• Huang Xiao found that the key’s formation had become easier to understand and spent about ten days deciphering its exit method.
• Huang Xiao told Qingfeng that he had comprehended the relevant part of the formation and could activate it to leave.

Huang Xiao decided to leave the Spirit Land without taking the Cold Jade Key or Supreme Ghost Stele, leaving them with Qingfeng to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit. After Huang Xiao activated the key’s formation and returned to the Slaughter Domain, several people appeared before him.

• Qingfeng asked Huang Xiao to leave the Cold Jade Key and Supreme Ghost Stele behind while the Soaring Immortal Fruit continued merging with its root remnant.
• Huang Xiao explained that he could leave by activating the Cold Jade Key’s formation, though he would likely be unable to reenter the Spirit Land, and taught Qingfeng how to leave later.
• Huang Xiao gave Qingfeng a box to seal the treasures’ auras and urged him to find Huang Xiao in the Demon Domain after the Soaring Immortal Fruit was ready.
• Huang Xiao activated the Cold Jade Key’s formation and vanished from the Spirit Land, while Qingfeng remained with the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• Huang Xiao reappeared at the place where the group had paused before entering the Spirit Land, and several people stood before him.

Huang Xiao emerged alive from the Spirit Land and returned to the Holy City, where he admitted to killing Meng Li and the others. Ren Dongju welcomed him and praised him for obtaining two hundred Spirit Land Cold Jades.

• Huang Xiao emerged from the Spirit Land and found Wood Demon Sect and Slaughter Domain groups waiting for him.
• The Wood Demon Sect expert explained that the Slaughter Domain believed Huang Xiao and Meng Li's group had perished together.
• Huang Xiao told the Slaughter Domain group that Meng Li and the others were dead and that he had killed them.
• The Wood Demon Sect expert said Ren Dongju was in the Holy City, and Huang Xiao agreed to return there.
• Ren Dongju welcomed Huang Xiao in the Holy City and praised him for obtaining two hundred Spirit Land Cold Jades, surprising Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao learned that the Slaughter Domain had traded for much of the Spirit Land Cold Jade after losing jade to mysterious ambushes, while the Demon Domain was also blamed for the attacks. He explained to Ren Dongju that he had fled into the Dangerous Area with the jade, then asked whether Ren Dongju would believe that he had killed Meng Li and the others.

• Huang Xiao asked why nearly five hundred pieces of Spirit Land Cold Jade had not returned with the Wood Demon Sect, and Ren Dongju explained that the Slaughter Domain had traded for some of it.
• Ren Dongju told Huang Xiao that unidentified experts had ambushed returning powers, with the Alliance Domain suffering the greatest losses and the Demon Domain also being attacked.
• Ren Dongju said the Slaughter Domain had lost jade from three locations and gained none from four, making it unwise to refuse its trade offer.
• Huang Xiao said he had taken Meng Li and the others' jade and fled into the Dangerous Area, where another formation expert pursued him.
• Huang Xiao asked Ren Dongju whether he would believe that Huang Xiao had killed Meng Li and all the others.

Huang Xiao claimed that the Spirit Land's formations had trapped him after he killed Meng Li and the others, while concealing where he had really gone. He Zhe, one of the Four Fiends, demanded to keep Huang Xiao to investigate his survival, and Ren Dongju challenged him over the agreement between the Great Domains.

• Huang Xiao told Ren Dongju that he had killed Meng Li and the others with help from the Spirit Land's formations and had lost the Spirit Land Cold Jade when he was teleported out.
• He Zhe arrived and announced that he would take Huang Xiao away to learn how he had survived inside the Spirit Land for over a month.
• Ren Dongju secretly warned Huang Xiao that He Zhe was one of the Four Fiends under the Slaughter Evil Lord, and Huang Xiao repeated his account to He Zhe.
• He Zhe dismissed Huang Xiao's explanation as inconclusive and insisted on keeping him until they uncovered the mystery.
• Ren Dongju objected that He Zhe was overstepping the agreement between the Great Domains.

In the Holy City of the Slaughter Domain, He Zhe suspected Huang Xiao had a treasure connected to the Spirit Land and demanded that he reveal his possessions. Huang Xiao showed everything he carried, but the chapter left the suspected treasure unaccounted for as He Zhe noticed a Vitality Pill.

• Ren Dongju admitted he could not force He Zhe to let Huang Xiao leave the Holy City.
• He Zhe guessed Huang Xiao had a treasure related to the Spirit Land, such as a Bronze Key, and threatened Ren Dongju over Huang Xiao’s Cold Jade.
• Huang Xiao denied possessing any such treasure, and Ren Dongju told him to show his belongings.
• Huang Xiao displayed his Minghong Saber and jade vials of pills, which He Zhe inspected.
• He Zhe spotted a Vitality Pill among Huang Xiao’s pills.

He Zhe searched Huang Xiao for a treasure connected to the Spirit Land and found a jade pendant Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had asked him to deliver to the Immortal Alchemist. Though He Zhe could detect nothing unusual about it, he suspected it explained Huang Xiao’s survival and kept the pendant under suspicion.

• He Zhe returned Huang Xiao’s Vitality Pills and, unconvinced that he carried no Spirit Land treasure, decided to search him.
• Huang Xiao agreed to the search, and He Zhe found a green jade pendant hidden inside his robes.
• Huang Xiao explained that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly had given him the ordinary pendant to deliver to her lover, the Immortal Alchemist.
• He Zhe examined the pendant but found nothing special, then argued that it remained suspicious because Huang Xiao had survived the Spirit Land.
• Ren Dongju grew concerned that He Zhe would keep the pendant, while Huang Xiao realized the others might believe it had saved him.

He Zhe investigated Huang Xiao’s jade pendant and concluded it was likely connected to the Spirit Land, prompting the Slaughter Evil Lord to summon Huang Xiao. Ren Dongju feared the Slaughter Domain would gain access to the Spirit Land and its treasures, leaving the Wood Demon Sect with a major loss.

• Ren Dongju questioned Huang Xiao about the injured Void Realm friend who had given him the jade pendant, while He Zhe argued that the pendant could be valuable despite its origin.
• He Zhe told Ren Dongju and Huang Xiao to remain in the Holy City while he had the pendant examined, and Ren Dongju feared the Slaughter Domain would seize their two hundred pieces of Spirit Land Cold Jade.
• After half a day, He Zhe returned and told Huang Xiao to come with him because the Ancestor had summoned him.
• He Zhe revealed that the Four Fiends could not confirm the pendant’s mystery, so they had alerted the Slaughter Evil Lord, who had summoned Huang Xiao.
• He Zhe promised Ren Dongju he could leave with the Spirit Land Cold Jade if Huang Xiao satisfied the Ancestor, but Ren Dongju realized the Slaughter Domain was pursuing a far greater prize.

Huang Xiao went to meet the Slaughter Evil Lord, while He Zhe tried to recruit him into the Slaughter Domain. The Ancestor summoned Huang Xiao alone and immediately recognized that he came from the Martial World.

• Ren Dongju let He Zhe take Huang Xiao to meet the Slaughter Evil Lord and resolved to report the Spirit Land matter to his master and the Demon God Sect.
• He Zhe praised Huang Xiao’s contribution and urged him to join the Slaughter Domain, but Huang Xiao refused to betray the Wood Demon Sect.
• He Zhe brought Huang Xiao to the mansion, where the other members of the Four Fiends said the Ancestor wanted a private audience.
• Huang Xiao entered the damaged mansion alone, passed through its formidable formations, and reached the main hall.
• The Slaughter Evil Lord, standing with his back to Huang Xiao, asked if he was someone from the Martial World, leaving Huang Xiao afraid that his secret had been exposed.

Huang Xiao met the Slaughter Evil Lord and discovered that he was Zuo Qiu Yi, the Immortal Alchemist. Zuo Qiu Yi explained that Huang Xiao’s Jade Pendant had disturbed his heart, and his Ruthlessness Dao had not reached full mastery.

• Zuo Qiu Yi spared Huang Xiao because he recognized the Jade Pendant and asked whether Huang Xiao had obtained the cultivation methods he left behind.
• Huang Xiao said he had found the Longevity Chapter in the Dragon Mountain Forbidden Ground, and Zuo Qiu Yi noted traces of the Imperishability Chapter and asked about Kui Yong.
• Zuo Qiu Yi explained that he had recognized Leng Guhan as someone from the Martial World but had never asked him about what happened there.
• Huang Xiao wondered why Zuo Qiu Yi had not killed Leng Guhan, and Zuo Qiu Yi said he had treated Leng Guhan’s arrival as a test of his Ruthlessness Dao.
• Zuo Qiu Yi said he had once believed his Ruthlessness Dao was fully mastered, but the Jade Pendant proved that his heart could still be disturbed.

Huang Xiao returned the Jade Pendant to Zuo Qiu Yi and told him that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly was gravely wounded, then asked about the Martial World and the Soaring Immortal Fruit. Zuo Qiu Yi explained the fruit’s origins and revealed that the Creation Sect’s Sect Master was still alive, leaving Huang Xiao considering how to use that information.

• Huang Xiao told Zuo Qiu Yi that Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly was gravely wounded, and Zuo Qiu Yi asked about Kui Yong.
• Zuo Qiu Yi explained that he had left the Imperishability Chapter for Kui Yong as a means to keep him in check, and described why the Longevity Chapter had been hidden in the Dragon Mountain Forbidden Ground.
• Huang Xiao recounted how he obtained the Longevity Chapter, then asked Zuo Qiu Yi about the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s connection to the Ancient World.
• Zuo Qiu Yi said the Soaring Immortal Fruit was planted in the Martial World to help nurture a Heavenly Immortal Fruit, whose unknown recipient might have been the Longevity Daoist, the Demon God, or the Creation Sect’s Sect Master.
• Zuo Qiu Yi revealed that the Creation Sect’s Sect Master was still alive, and Huang Xiao considered using the news to seek more chances for his group to enter Xuan Yuanxiang’s formation.

Huang Xiao asked Zuo Qiu Yi how to awaken the Minghong Saber’s dormant soul and learned that Origin Flame and vitality might help. He revealed the Cold Jade Key and recounted how he obtained it, then Zuo Qiu Yi vanished behind a formation and confronted someone arriving at the hall.

• Huang Xiao asked Zuo Qiu Yi how to revive the Minghong Saber’s soul, and Zuo Qiu Yi suggested using Origin Flame and vitality, possibly with the Longevity Chapter.
• Zuo Qiu Yi questioned Huang Xiao about his time in the Spirit Land, and Huang Xiao admitted he had obtained a Cold Jade Key.
• Huang Xiao explained that Senior Ji had given him the key after he was trapped in the Extreme Cold Mountains, and he described the key’s mysterious connection to the Spirit Land.
• Huang Xiao told Zuo Qiu Yi that he believed the key would someday return to him, while concealing that he had left it with Eldest Senior Brother.
• Zuo Qiu Yi disappeared behind a formation, then addressed someone at the hall entrance and said he would not count the Cold Jade gathered from his Slaughter Domain Spirit Land.

Zuo Qiu Yi negotiated with the old man over Spirit Land Cold Jade and help treating his injuries, while Huo Lian’s incomplete cultivation of the Longevity Chapter raised the possibility of future guidance. The old man returned Zuo Qiu Yi’s token, and Zuo Qiu Yi named the Daoist Canon as the price for using the Longevity Chapter to heal him.

• The old man entered with Huo Lian and five sacks of Spirit Land Cold Jade, and Zuo Qiu Yi agreed to refine pills after checking the payment.
• The old man revealed that Huo Lian had cultivated an incomplete Longevity Chapter and asked Zuo Qiu Yi to consider guiding him.
• Zuo Qiu Yi and the old man agreed to discuss Huo Lian’s cultivation in the future, while the old man admitted Huo Lian’s true qi had only slightly helped his injuries.
• Zuo Qiu Yi demanded his token back, and the old man returned it after suggesting he contact the Four Fiends to pass along messages.
• The old man asked Zuo Qiu Yi to use the Longevity Chapter to heal his injuries, and Zuo Qiu Yi said he wanted the Daoist Canon in exchange.

Zuo Qiu Yi and the old man discussed the three treatises of the Daoist Canon, and the old man offered to teach Huo Lian a portion of the Treatise on Attaining the Dao. After the visitors left, Huang Xiao learned that Huo Lian was safe and had gained a powerful opportunity.

• Zuo Qiu Yi asked the old man to trade the Treatise on Enlightenment for the missing Treatise on Attaining the Dao, but the old man refused to give up his treasured canon.
• The old man offered to teach Huo Lian a portion of the Treatise on Attaining the Dao if Huo Lian pleased him.
• The old man and Zuo Qiu Yi agreed that Zuo Qiu Yi would provide the pills in three months.
• The old man advised Zuo Qiu Yi that incomplete statements could be misleading before he and Huo Lian departed.
• Zuo Qiu Yi showed Huang Xiao an image of Huo Lian and the old man, and Huang Xiao confirmed his connection to Huo Lian.
• Zuo Qiu Yi reassured Huang Xiao that Huo Lian was safe and would gain tremendous benefits from staying with the old man.

Zuo Qiu Yi warned Huang Xiao that overreliance on the Imperishability Chapter had caused dangerous backlash, which only the special chill of Spirit Land Cold Jade could ease. He explained the Cold Jade Key’s importance, and the chapter ended with him giving Huang Xiao Longevity Pills and Huang Xiao asking how they compared to a Vitality Pill.

• Zuo Qiu Yi told Huang Xiao that the Imperishability Chapter’s backlash worsened as it advanced and that his Longevity Chapter had stagnated, leaving the cultivation method impossible to stop.
• Zuo Qiu Yi explained that Spirit Land Cold Jade’s special chill eased the backlash and inferred that the Cold Jade Key contained an even more potent version of that chill.
• Huang Xiao promised to return the Cold Jade Key to Zuo Qiu Yi when it came back into his hands, and considered giving it to him the best choice.
• Zuo Qiu Yi gave Huang Xiao a large jade bottle of Longevity Pills and explained that, despite inferior ingredients, his improved refining skills made them nearly as effective as the Martial World’s Longevity Pills.
• Huang Xiao asked Zuo Qiu Yi whether a Vitality Pill was inferior to the Longevity Pills.

Zuo Qiu Yi gave Huang Xiao Longevity Pills and warned him to focus on the Longevity Chapter because the Imperishability Chapter was dangerous. After explaining his theory that the chapters were separate cultivation methods, he returned Huang Xiao’s token and promised further benefits when the Cold Jade Key was returned.

• Zuo Qiu Yi gave Huang Xiao a bottle of Longevity Pills and advised him to prioritize the Longevity Chapter.
• Huang Xiao questioned whether the Imperishability Chapter’s backlash was truly dangerous, and Zuo Qiu Yi explained that other domains knew of his condition but would not dare act against him lightly.
• Huang Xiao warned Zuo Qiu Yi that outsiders might connect his safe return from the Spirit Land to the Jade Pendant, prompting Zuo Qiu Yi to consider the danger.
• Zuo Qiu Yi said he believed the Longevity Chapter and Imperishability Chapter had different creators and were separate cultivation methods, with the latter damaging the body to increase strength.
• Zuo Qiu Yi promised Huang Xiao further benefits when his Cold Jade Key was returned, then tossed him his token.

Huang Xiao confronted Zuo Qiu Yi about his feelings for Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, then left the Holy City with Ren Dongju and the others. Their journey was interrupted when two figures blocked the road and asked to take someone away.

• Zuo Qiu Yi gave Huang Xiao a Token that could contact him and protect its bearer in the Slaughter Domain, then advised him to return to the Demon Domain.
• Huang Xiao asked Zuo Qiu Yi whether he still cared for Xuanyuan Jade Butterfly, and Zuo Qiu Yi sent him outside without answering.
• He Zhe told Ren Dongju that he and Huang Xiao were free to leave, and the group departed the Holy City.
• Huang Xiao told Ren Dongju about his meeting with the Slaughter Evil Lord, while Ren Dongju suspected the Jade Pendant held a secret the Slaughter Domain had uncovered.
• A disciple reported that someone was blocking the road, and Huang Xiao recognized the two figures as one of them asked to take someone away.

An unnamed old expert persuaded Ren Dongju to let Huang Xiao leave with him, saying he wanted to ask about the Spirit Land. After hearing Huang Xiao’s account, the old man agreed not to interfere with his promise to give the Cold Jade Key to the Slaughter Evil Lord and asked Huang Xiao to notify him afterward.

• The old man dismissed Ren Dongju’s objections and explained that he wanted to question Huang Xiao about the Spirit Land, so Ren Dongju let Huang Xiao go with him and Huo Lian.
• Ren Dongju took the Spirit Land Cold Jade back to the Wood Demon Sect and ordered Chen De and Liu Zhi Da to lead the others home.
• Huang Xiao traveled with the old man and Huo Lian to an unremarkable mountain, where they stopped for the night.
• The old man asked Huang Xiao to repeat what he had told the Slaughter Evil Lord, and Huang Xiao recounted what happened in the Spirit Land.
• Huang Xiao said he would give the Cold Jade Key to the Slaughter Evil Lord if it returned to him, and the old man asked him to send word so they could speak.
• Huang Xiao insisted the Jade Pendant had no connection to the Spirit Land and kept its connection to Senior Immortal Alchemist secret.

Huang Xiao’s conversation with the old man revealed that the Slaughter Evil Lord had prepared Longevity Pills for him, and the old man recognized them as the pills he had been waiting for. The old man then noticed something unusual about Huang Xiao’s Vitality Pill, and Huang Xiao confirmed that he had sensed it changing.

• The old man said he knew a woman surnamed Ji but could not confirm her connection to Senior Ji, and Huang Xiao suspected they were linked to the Longevity Daoist.
• The old man pressed Huang Xiao to reveal what the Slaughter Evil Lord had given him, and Huang Xiao disclosed that he had Longevity Pills.
• The old man took the bottle from Huang Xiao to examine the pills and learned that the Slaughter Evil Lord had intended them for him but had given them to Huang Xiao first.
• Huang Xiao wondered whether the old man had gathered the Spirit Land Cold Jade that the Immortal Alchemist needed.
• The old man examined Huang Xiao’s other pills, noticed something strange about the Vitality Pill, and heard Huang Xiao say he had sensed that it was no longer the same pill.

Huang Xiao and Huo Lian discussed the unusual vitality sealed inside Huang Xiao’s Vitality Pill with an old man who recognized its rarity and offered to pay any price to learn how it was made. Their negotiation turned to the Treatise on Enlightenment and the Treatise on Seeking the Dao, and the old man asked whether they knew the Dao’s ultimate.

• The old man explained that the Vitality Pill’s vitality was extraordinarily rare and that the Slaughter Evil Lord had missed it because the bottle sealed away its aura.
• Huang Xiao admitted he had noticed only a small change, while the old man said the Vitality Pill surpassed Huang Xiao’s Longevity Pills and asked how he had made it.
• Huo Lian demanded the Treatise on Enlightenment in exchange for the method of producing more Vitality Pills, and the old man agreed the method could be more valuable than help healing his injuries.
• Huang Xiao asked about the Treatise on Enlightenment, and Huo Lian revealed that he and Huang Xiao already possessed the Treatise on Seeking the Dao.
• The old man accepted that they had obtained the Treatise on Seeking the Dao through fortune and asked whether they knew about the ultimate of the Dao.