Recaps

Chen Zheng revealed that he intended to claim the Heavenly Gate’s Heavenly Swords, then faced Ancestor Xiaoyao and dared the Heavenly Gate to fire its Sage Cannons. The Heavenly Gate’s forces prepared to destroy Chen Zheng and everyone at Lotus Mountain.

• Chen Zheng dismissed the Heavenly Gate’s threats, healed the Divine Eye Tribe chief, and heard the immortal master explain the Heavenly Gate’s connection to the Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor.
• A Sacred Ship arrived at Lotus Mountain, and Li Chenghe reported to Ancestor Xiaoyao that Chen Zheng had killed Huai’an and the other Heavenly Gate disciples.
• Ancestor Xiaoyao identified himself as Li Qiong, Daoist name Xiaoyao, and threatened to kill Chen Zheng and the others.
• Chen Zheng stepped before the Sacred Ship and invited the Heavenly Gate to fire its Sage Cannons at him.
• The Red Lotus Demoness teased Hua Qianzhu for supposedly having feelings for Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng survived the Heavenly Gate Sage Cannon and used the attack to teach Shaoyan about betrayal and the need to kill those who threaten others. Shaoyan awakened his divine eyes and erased the Divine Eye Tribe members who had betrayed their own people.

• Ancestor Xiaoyao shattered his hand when his grab failed to harm Chen Zheng, then fired the Heavenly Gate Sage Cannon at him.
• Chen Zheng’s aura disappeared, and Li Chenghe and the Heavenly Gate cultivators assumed the cannon had killed him.
• Half the Divine Eye Tribe begged to serve the Heavenly Gate, and Li Chenghe ordered them to kill the tribespeople who had remained loyal.
• Chen Zheng reappeared unharmed and explained to Shaoyan that even blood relatives might betray others for their own benefit.
• Shaoyan awakened his divine eyes and turned the traitorous members of the Divine Eye Tribe into nothingness.

Chen Zheng annihilated Ancestor Xiaoyao and the Heavenly Gate cultivators after Shaoyan awakened the Divine Eye. The chapter ended with Chen Zheng killing Li Chenghe, who never learned what it meant to become a loot box.

• The Divine Eye Tribe rejoiced at Shaoyan's awakening, but its chief rejected Ancestor Xiaoyao's offer and declared the tribe loyal to the master of Lotus Mountain.
• Ancestor Xiaoyao and Li Chenghe threatened the Divine Eye Tribe, and Chen Zheng summoned the Primordial Ancestor Heavenly Sword.
• Chen Zheng used the Ninefold Sword Domain to erase Ancestor Xiaoyao and the Heavenly Gate cultivators aboard the sacred ship.
• Li Chenghe realized Chen Zheng had kept them alive to stimulate Shaoyan's Divine Eye, then asked what it meant to become a loot box.
• Chen Zheng used the Primordial Ancestor Heavenly Sword to annihilate Li Chenghe's primordial spirit.

After defeating the Heavenly Gate patriarch, Chen Zheng identified Shaoyan’s awakened pupils as the Eye of Chaos and said Shaoyan would need to visit the Divine Eye Clan’s ancestral grounds in the Black-Yellow Great World to fully awaken them. He also gave Red Lotus and Hua Qianzhu the Ninefold Sword Domain, which he had created.

• Chen Zheng entered Lotus Mountain with the Divine Eye Tribe’s chief and the unconscious Shaoyan, and later identified Shaoyan’s divine pupils as the Eye of Chaos.
• The chief, Shaohao, explained that the Divine Eye Tribe had once prospered in Grand Emperor Immortal City and might descend from a branch of the Divine Eye Clan in the Black-Yellow Great World.
• Chen Zheng touched Shaoyan’s brow, briefly turning his eyes to chaos and causing Lotus Mountain to shake before restoring them to normal.
• Chen Zheng told Shaoyan he would need to retrieve what belonged to him at the Divine Eye Clan’s ancestral grounds in the Black-Yellow Great World to fully awaken his Eye of Chaos.
• Red Lotus asked Chen Zheng to teach her the Ninefold Sword Domain, and he gave the technique to her and Hua Qianzhu, explaining that he had created it and taught it to others.

After Heavenly Gate learned that Ancestor Xiaoyao had died at Lotus Mountain, it sent word to the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty, hoping the dynasty would investigate and clash with the culprit. When the dynasty’s envoy arrived to seize the Red Lotus Demon King, Chen Zheng revealed the Heavenly Gate Sacred Ship and forced the envoy to surrender.

• Old Ancestor Heartlessness told Li Mushi that divination showed the Demon Ancestor had left the world and urged him to send the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty to investigate.
• Li Mushi and Old Ancestor Heartlessness saw cracks in the sword pool’s ancient platform and agreed to let the dynasty investigate while Heavenly Gate prepared to punish the culprit.
• A Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty envoy arrived outside Lotus Mountain with troops and demanded that its leader receive the imperial edict.
• The envoy ordered the Crimson Feather Immortal Guards to enter Lotus Mountain, and Chen Zheng’s unseen power turned them to dust.
• Chen Zheng told the envoy that Ancestor Xiaoyao had died at Lotus Mountain and revealed the Heavenly Gate Sacred Ship.
• The envoy recognized the ship, blamed Heavenly Gate for setting him up, and dropped to his knees in surrender.

Chen Zheng reversed the State Preceptor’s Universe in the Palm and trapped the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty’s forces, prompting the State Preceptor to summon his master. The summoned figure recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and excitedly called back to their shared past.

• Chen Zheng spared the kneeling soldiers after putting away the Heavenly Gate Sacred Ship, but Lord Yuan Yang arrived and captured Lotus Mountain with Universe in the Palm.
• Lord Yuan Yang saw Chen Zheng and briefly wondered if he resembled an ancestor of the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty before declaring that he had come to take the Red Lotus Demon King away.
• Chen Zheng reversed Universe in the Palm, making Lotus Mountain enormous and trapping Lord Yuan Yang and the soldiers in a vast nothingness.
• Lord Yuan Yang summoned his master with a shattered crystal sphere and asked him to explain how Chen Zheng could surpass his divine ability.
• The summoned figure recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and excitedly recalled that they had teamed up to fight little monsters.

The First Universe Emperor recognized Chen Zheng and punished Yuan Yang, revealing that Chen Zheng had once visited the Chaos Domain. Chen Zheng learned the Red Lotus Demoness's family history, and the chapter ended as three violent booms shook the Nether Capital north of Lotus Mountain.

• The First Universe Emperor descended, recognized Chen Zheng from the Chaos Domain, and destroyed Yuan Yang's body before taking his primordial spirit away.
• Chen Zheng accepted the First Universe Emperor's apology and learned Yuan Yang's memories as the manifestation departed with him.
• The tall, thin eunuch offered to reveal the Red Lotus Demoness's origins, but the dynasty's soldiers killed him and then destroyed themselves.
• Chen Zheng told the Red Lotus Demoness that her mother was the Ancient Spirit Rhino Clan's former holy maiden and had been sealed in an immortal coffin after being grievously injured.
• Three earth-shaking booms sounded from the Nether Capital, and Hua Qianzhu warned that something terrifying might have emerged there.

Chen Zheng took the Red Lotus Demoness and Shaoyan to the Nether Capital after reincarnation power stirred across the world. There, cultivators failed to climb the Reincarnation Platform, and Quasi-Sage Jiuxian singled out Chen Zheng, a mortal, to try it.

• Chen Zheng said the disturbance came from someone trying to plunder something, then left Hua Qianzhu to guard Lotus Mountain beneath an array.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Nether Capital learned that reaching the Reincarnation Platform's summit could lead to eternity, while those below the Heavenly Emperor Realm had previously been barred from entering.
• Chen Zheng arrived with the Red Lotus Demoness and Shaoyan, whose pain Chen Zheng eased with mystic light.
• Quasi-Sage Jiuxian was blasted off the Reincarnation Platform, and Patriarch Qiyi fell after reaching its fourth step.
• Jiuxian speculated that the platform might have special restrictions and called on Chen Zheng to try climbing it.

Chen Zheng was challenged to test the Reincarnation Platform in the Nether Capital, but he struck down Quasi-Sage Jiuxian with one slap. The assembled cultivators then pressed him to prove his claim that the platform would stop working when he stepped onto it.

• Patriarch Qiyi tossed an ordinary beast onto the Reincarnation Platform, and it exploded before landing.
• Quasi-Sage Jiuxian ordered Chen Zheng to try the platform, but his first attempt to grab Chen Zheng failed.
• Chen Zheng slapped Quasi-Sage Jiuxian, sending him into the stone pillar and leaving him badly injured.
• The cultivators realized Chen Zheng had overwhelming physical strength despite having no detectable magical power.
• Patriarch Qiyi and the other patriarchs urged Chen Zheng to step onto the Reincarnation Platform and demonstrate his claim.

The ancestors tried to force Chen Zheng onto the Reincarnation Platform, but he refused and warned them that its promise of reaching the other shore might not be real. When Ancestor Baiyun climbed to the summit, a black eyeball appeared and devoured him, leaving the others horrified.

• The ancestors pressured Chen Zheng to ascend the Reincarnation Platform, but he said no one could force him and warned that the platform would stop working once he stepped onto it.
• Ancestor Baiyun accused Chen Zheng of waiting for the ancestors to weaken the platform, while Ancestor Feiliu, Ancestor Bailian, and Patriarch Qiyi agreed to wait for others rather than ascend first.
• A dark gleam flashed across the platform, and Ancestor Baiyun took it as a sign that its power had weakened.
• Ancestor Baiyun climbed to the seventh stone tier and boasted that he would reach the Sea of Bitterness, but a black eyeball appeared and swallowed his body and primordial spirit.
• The other ancestors and powerful cultivators fled the Nether Capital as Chen Zheng mocked Ancestor Baiyun's intelligence.

After the Reincarnation Platform devoured Ancestor Baiyun, the cultivators realized it was a trap and that an eerie barrier had sealed the Nether Capital. Chen Zheng warned them not to provoke him, then threw Ancestor Feiliu onto the platform, where the demonic eye devoured him.

• The cultivators recognized the Reincarnation Platform as a trap after the demonic eye swallowed Ancestor Baiyun, and Patriarch Qiyi revealed that a barrier sealed the area around the Nether Capital.
• Ancestor Feiliu accused Chen Zheng of conspiring with the demonic eye, while the young man from the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty's imperial family worried that his identity had been exposed.
• Chen Zheng told Shaoyan that the demonic eye would be useful to him and warned Ancestor Feiliu not to provoke him.
• Ancestor Feiliu attacked Shaoyan, so Chen Zheng's aura seized him and hurled him onto the Reincarnation Platform.
• The demonic eye devoured Ancestor Feiliu completely, and the cultivators backed away from Chen Zheng in terror.

A palace-robed woman claimed to be Lady Houtu and persuaded most of the cultivators to enter the Nether Capital and help suppress Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng exposed her as a fraud, and she revealed that she had lured the cultivators inside to drain their power and essence.

• The cultivators suspected Chen Zheng was allied with the demonic eye, but a palace-robed woman appeared and claimed he had planted it in the Nether Capital to steal the Reincarnation Platform.
• The woman suppressed the demonic eye and gave the cultivators a reincarnation secret art, urging them to enter the Nether Capital and form the Six Paths of Reincarnation Grand Formation.
• Chen Zheng warned the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace cultivators that they might never leave the Nether Capital, but most cultivators, including Patriarch Qiyi and Ancestor Bailian, followed the woman inside.
• The prince of the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty refused to choose sides and withdrew with his companions, while Chen Zheng called the woman a false Houtu.
• The woman admitted she needed the cultivators' strength and revealed her bewitching nature as their magical power and essence began pouring out of their bodies.

The woman in palace robes drained the cultivators in the Nether Capital to complete the Six Paths of Reincarnation Grand Formation and summon the Sea of Bitterness Ferryman. She asked the Ferryman to suppress Chen Zheng, but it remained motionless, while the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty's prince waited for a chance to seize the Red Lotus Demoness.

• The woman in palace robes drained the cultivators' magical power and sources, reducing them to mortals and revealing that she was not Lady Houtu.
• The woman used their power to complete the Six Paths of Reincarnation Grand Formation and unseal the demonic eye on the Reincarnation Platform.
• The woman explained that she had summoned the Sea of Bitterness Ferryman to suppress Chen Zheng and open a passage to the Sea of Bitterness.
• The Red Lotus Demoness offered to burn the woman with the Power of the Red Lotus, but Chen Zheng warned her that the demoness was not simple.
• The woman summoned the black-robed Ferryman and asked it to suppress Chen Zheng, while the prince hoped to abduct the Red Lotus Demoness if Chen Zheng was subdued.
• The Ferryman remained motionless for an incense stick's worth of time.

Chen Zheng exposed the summoned Sea of Bitterness Ferryman as a replica and called the real Shana to identify it. Chu Yaoyao fled through a spacetime rift, but Chen Zheng seized the demonic eye and kept her divine jade.

• The palace-attired woman demanded that the summoned Sea of Bitterness Ferryman suppress Chen Zheng, but he remained motionless.
• Chen Zheng said the figure was not the real Ferryman and summoned Shana, who revealed that the figure was a replica made from a stolen drop of her true blood.
• The woman transformed under the demonic eye's influence and introduced herself as Chu Yaoyao, tossing Chen Zheng her divine jade before trying to escape with the artifact.
• Chen Zheng caught the jade and pulled the demonic eye from the spacetime rift while Chu Yaoyao escaped, promising to meet him again.

Chen Zheng took the Six Paths of Reincarnation Banner from the Reincarnation Platform and explained that someone had forged it to create a new cycle of reincarnation. After he left the Nether Capital, he sent Prince Xiu a mysterious crimson gift, while Jiang Chenzi arrived and Patriarch Qiyi was suddenly killed by an unknown sword strike.

• Shana returned the captured figure to the Sea of Bitterness and told Chen Zheng that the Sea of Bitterness Holy Ji hoped to see him before she lost control; Chen Zheng agreed.
• Chen Zheng crushed the demonic eye and had Shaoyan absorb its chaotic light, revealing the boy's Divine Eyes.
• Chen Zheng retrieved the Six Paths of Reincarnation Banner from the Reincarnation Platform and said someone had stolen the power of the six paths to forge a new reincarnation.
• Chen Zheng departed with Shaoyan and the Red Lotus Demoness, then sent a crimson streak into Prince Xiu, who decided to return to the Grand Emperor Immortal City and ask his father about Chen Zheng.
• Jiang Chenzi arrived at the Nether Capital and left with the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace cultivators; an unknown sword strike then killed Patriarch Qiyi.

The emperor revealed that Grand Emperor was the immortal founder of the imperial bloodline and sent Prince Xiu to investigate Lotus Mountain, where the imperial preceptor had vanished. At Lotus Mountain, Qin Xuan, eldest disciple of the Reincarnation Fate Lord, asked Chen Zheng to help free her teacher, but Chen Zheng refused to cooperate.

• The Divine Firmament Sect's elders blamed Jiang Chenzi for Patriarch Qiyi's death and planned to go to the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty in three days.
• The emperor told the princes that Grand Emperor was the imperial family's undying ancestor and offered the final section of the secret art to whoever investigated Lotus Mountain.
• Prince Xiu volunteered to investigate Lotus Mountain despite the imperial preceptor's mysterious disappearance, and the emperor assigned him the task.
• Qin Xuan visited Chen Zheng at Lotus Mountain and asked him to release the Reincarnation Fate Lord in exchange for cooperation.
• Chen Zheng said he had no interest in freeing or cooperating with the Reincarnation Fate Lord, and Qin Xuan remarked that his body and primordial spirit remained in the strongest realm despite his lost magical power.

Qin Xuan explained the Reincarnation Lineage’s plan to replace the Future Lord of Tribulation and asked Chen Zheng to cooperate. Chen Zheng revealed a being inside a lotus seed who challenged Qin Xuan, then shattered her will manifestation.

• Qin Xuan assessed Chen Zheng’s diminished combat strength and revealed that her secret art, Reflecting the Heavens, could perceive nearly everything below the Epoch Hegemon level.
• Qin Xuan identified Red Lotus and Shaoyan’s extraordinary past-life origins and explained that her master, the Reincarnation Fate Lord, planned to create a new universe.
• Qin Xuan said she was meant to replace the Future Lord of Tribulation, but Chen Zheng questioned her qualification and released a little child from a lotus seed.
• The child accused Qin Xuan of wanting to replace her, transformed into an adult woman, and shattered Qin Xuan’s will manifestation with a glance.

Chen Zheng learned that a Dao Fruit had appeared in the Southern Heaven Sea of Clouds and brought Red Lotus there. As the King Kong Clan sealed the area and invited challengers to break a deadly formation, Chen Zheng and Red Lotus entered.

• Chen Zheng scanned the Heavenly Fortune Great World, raising the Cosmic Cantilever's progress to thirty-eight percent, and decided to visit the Great Universe Realm later.
• Chen Zheng told Red Lotus that a Dao Fruit had appeared and took her to the Southern Heaven Sea of Clouds.
• Cultivators gathered outside the King Kong Clan's territory, discussing the Dao Fruit and the deadly events in the Nether Capital.
• Yuan Ba announced that outsiders could not enter, but a voice from within invited anyone to break the deadly formation for the Dao Fruit.
• Chen Zheng and Red Lotus arrived, and Chen Zheng led her past the astonished King Kong apes into the Southern Heaven Sea of Clouds.

Chen Zheng and the Red Lotus Demoness entered the Southern Heaven Sea of Clouds, where a Dao Fruit lay inside an ominous array that threatened to consume the region. After Ouyang Feitian failed to break it, Chen Zheng stopped the array’s expansion with a casual slap.

• Yuan Ba led cultivators from various factions into the Southern Heaven Sea of Clouds after Ancestor Yuan Chen announced that breaking its ominous array would earn the Dao Fruit.
• Chen Zheng and the Red Lotus Demoness found the Dao Fruit in a cold pool, where Ancestor Yuan Chen warned that the array could swallow the sea of clouds within six hours.
• Ouyang Feitian proposed a wager with Chen Zheng and fixed his attention on the Red Lotus Demoness, but Chen Zheng dismissed him as unworthy.
• Ouyang Feitian deployed the Flying Heavenly Dao’s Auspicious Cloud Immortal Array, but the ominous array shattered it and began expanding.
• Chen Zheng casually slapped toward the cold pool, freezing the array’s ferocity and forcing the ominous array to shrink.

Chen Zheng forced back the deadly formation around the Dao Fruit, but the extraterrestrial fiend possessing Ancestor Yuan Xin emerged and absorbed the fruit. The fiend transformed into a colossal demonic ape and attacked Chen Zheng, leaving the story with Ancestor Yuan Chen crippled after trying to stop it.

• Yuan Ba’s slap contracted the deadly formation, and the red-haired elder explained that Ancestor Yuan Xin had condensed the Dao Fruit before dying from the backlash of an extraterrestrial fiend.
• A figure emerged from the cold pool, and the red-haired elder identified it as the fiend possessing Ancestor Yuan Xin’s body.
• The fiend introduced himself as Meng Di of the Dark Metal Clan and absorbed the Dao Fruit, then revealed that Yuan Xin had learned his clan’s secret art.
• Meng Di transformed into a towering demonic ape and reached for Chen Zheng, while Ouyang Feitian saw a chance to escape with the demoness.
• The red-haired elder transformed and charged Meng Di, but Meng Di struck him down and crippled him in a single exchange.

Chen Zheng killed the demon ape with a purple curved saber and claimed its Dao Fruit, revealing power that stunned the King Kong Clan and the visiting factions. He absorbed the Dao Fruit’s immortal spiritual energy, then let a little purple beast devour the remainder, while the Red Lotus Demoness called him Master.

• Ouyang Feitian attacked the Red Lotus Demoness, but her crimson divine light destroyed his body and left his primordial spirit protected by a magic treasure.
• The demon ape turned its attention to the Red Lotus Demoness and reached for her while Ouyang Feitian continued demanding that she leave with him.
• Chen Zheng used a purple curved saber to pierce the demon ape’s head, killing it and sending its body crashing into the cold pool.
• Chen Zheng took the demon ape’s Dao Fruit, absorbed its immortal spiritual energy, and said the remaining fruit was too low-grade for him.
• A little purple beast emerged and swallowed the Dao Fruit, then vanished after showing hostility toward the Red Lotus Demoness, who asked if it was Chen Zheng’s spirit pet.

Chen Zheng killed Ouyang Feitian after he fled, then accepted the King Kong Clan’s offering of the Holy Ape Bone. He discovered that the bone held a secret method from another era and learned that the Holy Ape had emerged from the mysterious Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb.

• Ouyang Feitian offered Chen Zheng the Auspicious Cloud Immortal Array secret method, but Chen Zheng rejected it and killed him when he tried to flee.
• Ancestor Yuan Chen thanked Chen Zheng for saving the King Kong Clan and escorted him to their ancestral grounds.
• Ancestor Yuan Chen offered Chen Zheng the King Kong Sacred Tree’s leaves and a piece of Holy Ape Bone from the clan’s remnant-soul elder.
• Chen Zheng found a secret method from another era imprinted on the Holy Ape Bone and said the bone itself did not belong to this era.
• Ancestor Yuan Chen revealed that the Holy Ape had emerged from the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, which the Intent Sage had reportedly entered and survived.

Chen Zheng went to Grand Emperor Immortal City with Prince Xiu and demanded the immortal coffin from its ruler. When the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb opened, the ruler handed over the coffin and explained that he had used it to preserve A Xiang’s remnant soul.

• Ancestor Yuan Chen and the remnant soul discussed Chen Zheng’s power and warned that the Flying Heavenly Dao should not seek revenge for Ouyang Feitian.
• Prince Xiu arrived at Lotus Mountain, and Chen Zheng agreed to accompany him to Grand Emperor Immortal City.
• Prince Xiu wondered if Chen Zheng was an incarnation of the dynasty’s founding ancestor, but Chen Zheng dismissed the idea and said the ruler’s conduct would determine the dynasty’s fate.
• Chen Zheng entered the palace with the Red Lotus Demoness, and the ruler accused him of suppressing the Imperial Preceptor and impersonating the founding ancestor.
• The Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb opened, and Chen Zheng demanded the immortal coffin; the ruler gave it to him and said it contained A Xiang’s preserved remnant soul.

Chen Zheng retrieved the immortal coffin from the Grand Emperor Sovereign and brought the Red Lotus Demoness back to Lotus Mountain, where he awakened her mother. He then took Hua Qianzhu to the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, where a mysterious woman called to her before vanishing.

• The Grand Emperor Sovereign admitted he feared death, ordered Prince Xiu to accompany him to the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, and warned his court not to provoke Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng sent dark azure light into the woman in the immortal coffin, and the Red Lotus Demoness saw a crimson gleam leave her mother's brow.
• Chen Zheng chose Hua Qianzhu to accompany him to the tomb and used the Star Raft to reach it, where factions from across the Heavenly Fortune Great World had gathered.
• Hundreds of gates opened, and cultivators rushed into the tomb; Chen Zheng remarked that it was not truly a legacy tomb and warned Hua Qianzhu not to answer anyone who called her except him.
• Inside a beautiful flower grove, a woman appeared and called Hua Qianzhu back; Hua Qianzhu held back her reply, and the woman vanished.

Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu reached the Life and Death Stone Forest, where the Yin Emperor forced them to fight to the death. Chen Zheng struck the Yin Emperor with one slap, and immortal light transported him and Hua Qianzhu toward the land of inheritance.

• Hua Qianzhu saw that the cultivators in Senluo Hell had fallen into reincarnation and would probably never wake up.
• Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu reached the stone forest, where defeated cultivators were destroyed and winners were transported away.
• The Yin Emperor forced Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu into a death match and threatened them when Chen Zheng refused to fight Hua Qianzhu.
• Chen Zheng slapped the Yin Emperor, dissolved his phantom body, and drained his power until his primordial spirit fled.
• Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu were transported away by beams of immortal light, leaving the gathered cultivators horrified.