Recaps

After emerging from seclusion, Xiang Yun learned that Ning Chen and Xun Wu had stirred up conflict between the Primordial Hall’s Body Refinement and Divine Ability factions. He confronted Ning Chen on Primordial Peak, and their clash ended with Ning Chen blasted into the Pill River platform.

• Liang Qichao and the other disciples submitted to Xiang Yun after he completed another Nirvana tribulation.
• Xiang Huang named Ning Chen of Primordial Peak and Xun Wu of Battle Arts Peak as the disciples stirring up the faction dispute.
• Xiang Yun flew to Primordial Peak with the disciples following him and demanded that Ning Chen come out.
• Ning Chen warned Xiang Yun to stay out of the dispute, but Xiang Yun insisted that his position as Young Hall Master gave him the authority to act.
• Xiang Yun transformed and struck Ning Chen with his Heaven-Breaking First Form, Earth Splitting, Heavenly Tyrant Fist, sending him crashing into the Pill River platform.

Xiang Yun defeated Ning Chen in two punches and rejected the idea that he was supporting either faction in the Primordial Hall. He left Ning Chen accepting his view that strength mattered most and said he would make Xun Wu see reality next.

• Ning Chen accused Xiang Yun of ambushing him and questioned whether he was a demon, but Xiang Huang said Xiang Yun had grown up in the Primordial Hall.
• Ning Chen invoked a Martial Arts Spirit and attacked Xiang Yun with Earth Splitting, but Xiang Yun countered with the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique and sent him crashing into a pit.
• Xiang Yun asked whether Ning Chen wanted to continue, and Ning Chen admitted defeat after being overwhelmed by the two punches.
• Ning Chen asked whether Xiang Yun supported the Divine Ability Faction, and Xiang Yun said he rejected taking sides and believed strength would settle the factional disputes.
• Xiang Yun helped Ning Chen to his feet and said he would make Xun Wu see reality; Ning Chen said he would come watch.

Xiang Yun ended the faction dispute on Battle Heaven Peak by defeating its leading disciples, then joined Hong Wuji in the Primordial Battle Hall. Asked which path he preferred, Xiang Yun said they should strengthen both body refinement and divine abilities.

• Xun Wu learned that Xiang Yun had subdued Jiang Lin in one punch and Ning Chen in two, then received his grandmaster’s advice to apologize and ask about Xiang Yun’s demon-like battle form.
• Xiang Yun confronted Xun Wu, who apologized and agreed to stop pursuing the dispute between the factions.
• Hong Wuji ordered everyone involved in the fight to spend seven days in the Primordial Pool without using martial arts.
• Hong Wuji praised Xiang Yun for subduing the factions’ spokesmen and asked whether he favored body refinement or divine abilities.
• Xiang Yun said they should grasp both paths and keep both strong.

Xiang Yun revealed that his Tyrant Body Nine Forms came from abilities imprinted through generations of battle and offered to develop a secret technique that might resolve the Divine Ability Faction’s dispute over bloodline fusion. He agreed to consider the research while discussing the three-sect exchange and securing resources from Hong Wuji.

• Hong Wuji explained that Xun Wu had proposed combining demon bloodline fusion with the Primordial Battle Body, and that some disciples had succeeded while many others had failed.
• Xiang Yun demonstrated the Tyrant Body Nine Forms and explained that it came from human ancestors imprinting the abilities of powerful enemies through battle.
• Xiang Yun told Hong Wuji he could work on reproducing the technique, and Hong Wuji promised the hall’s support.
• Hong Wuji confirmed that the exchange would be held jointly by the Dao Sect, Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, and Primordial Hall, and Xiang Yun warned that the Yuan Sect might react.
• Xiang Yun requested cultivation resources and beast and demon corpses for his research, and Hong Wuji agreed to provide most of them.

Xiang Yun asked Hong Wuji to contact the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan so he could gain their support, then cultivated at the Pill River while studying how to create a Totem Divine Ability. His experiment failed when his nine Divine Forms rejected the pattern, but it revealed a path forward, and his Qiankun Battle Body advanced to the fourth level.

• Xiang Yun asked Hong Wuji to send the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan information about the person they were seeking, and Hong Wuji agreed.
• Xiang Yun took resources from Hong Wuji and Xiang Huang to the Pill River and used them to cultivate while studying beast patterns for a Totem Divine Ability.
• Xiang Yun tried to imprint a Desolate Ox pattern with his Qi and blood, but his nine Divine Forms erased it.
• Xiang Yun concluded that each new Battle Body Divine Ability had to surpass the previous one and that the Totem Divine Ability would require someone to test the method.
• Xiang Yun absorbed the resources, advanced his Qiankun Battle Body to the fourth level, and gained the Qiankun Boundless Body.

Xiang Yun tested the Qiankun Boundless Body and learned that his Nirvana Golden Body and Origin Energy grew stronger, then Xiang Huang brought him approval to absorb Nirvana Golden Qi from three Pill Rivers. Xiang Yun also asked for help testing his battle body divine ability and arranging a challenge against Deputy Peak Master Zhong.

• Xiang Yun activated the Qiankun Boundless Body, grew to three zhang tall, and felt his strength increase under immense pressure.
• Xiang Huang told Xiang Yun that his request for Nirvana Golden Qi from three Pill Rivers had been approved and offered to take him deeper into the Pill River.
• Xiang Yun declined Xiang Huang's help reaching the river's depths and asked him to tell Hong Wuji that he had a lead on the battle body divine ability and needed people to test its Qi and blood construction.
• Xiang Yun asked Xiang Huang to arrange a fight with Deputy Peak Master Zhong, and Xiang Huang was startled that he wanted to challenge someone at Initial Life Profound.

Xiang Yun absorbed Nirvana Golden Qi and survived the resulting tribulation, reaching four yuan Nirvana while strengthening his Qiankun Battle Body. After the Hall Master summoned him to the Primordial Battle Hall, Xiang Yun arrived to hear the elders debating an experiment based on his ideas.

• Xiang Yun agreed to spar with Xiang Huang after emerging from seclusion, then returned to the Nirvana Pill River to test his strength against its pressure.
• Xiang Yun found a mass of Nirvana Golden Qi at the riverbed and absorbed it with his Qiankun Battle Body, black hole, and World Tree.
• After consuming the Golden Qi in a little over two days, Xiang Yun triggered the Nirvana Tribulation and devoured the Nirvana Demonic Flame, advancing to four yuan Nirvana.
• Xiang Yun emerged from the Pill River and gave a disciple guidance on the final fist of the Three Primordial Fists before heading to the Primordial Battle Hall.
• Xiang Yun entered the hall and heard an elder objecting to starting experiments so soon, while another mentioned that Xun Wu wanted to try Xiang Yun's idea himself.

Xiang Yun returned to the Primordial Battle Hall after absorbing all the Nirvana Golden Qi in the Pill River, astonishing the peak masters with his rapid progress. He confirmed that he had developed the Battle Body Divine Ability and prepared to show the elders, while Xun Fa offered himself as a test subject.

• Xiang Yun entered the Primordial Battle Hall and told the elders that he had absorbed all the Nirvana Golden Qi in the Pill River.
• Xiang Yun explained that he had reached Four Yuan Nirvana by tribulations, though his cultivation displayed traits of Seven Yuan Nirvana.
• Hong Wuji asked Xiang Yun whether he had truly worked out the Battle Body Divine Ability, and Xiang Yun confirmed that he had.
• Xiang Yun rebuked Xun Fa for doubting him, and Xun Fa acknowledged Xiang Yun's extraordinary talent and future leadership.
• Xun Fa explained that Xun Wu could not safely undergo further experiments and offered himself to test Xiang Yun's ability.

Xiang Yun revealed that battle-body totems contained Divine Ability Marks that could help cultivators acquire and pass down beastlike abilities, and Xun Fa confirmed the method worked. The Primordial Hall’s elders committed to developing the technique and strengthening the body-refinement path, while Xun Fa turned his attention to making Hong Wuji stronger.

• Xiang Yun explained that Divine Ability Marks were the foundation of demon bloodline abilities and showed how battle-body totems could imprint them without changing a cultivator’s bloodline.
• Xiang Yun outlined marks for the Vicious Demon Tiger, Savage Iron Ox, and Black Feather Eagle, which could grant baleful aura, powerful hoof strikes, and extreme speed.
• Xun Fa studied the patterns and manifested the Vicious Demon Tiger’s baleful aura, confirming that Xiang Yun’s technique worked.
• Xun Fa promised to gather beast resources and support the Body Refinement Faction and Divine Ability Faction, while Xiang Yun cautioned him against provoking powerful or allied demons.
• Xun Fa told Hong Wuji to get stronger so he could safeguard Xiang Yun’s future path to becoming Hall Master, leaving Hong Wuji bewildered.

Xiang Yun absorbed the Nirvana Golden Qi from Battle Heaven Peak and Battle Arts Peak, then emerged at Five Yuan Nirvana ready to challenge his father, Xiang Huang. Wu Xun spread news of the impending fight, and Xiang Huang arranged to use the Primordial Battle Platform.

• Xiang Huang gave Xiang Yun five hundred thousand Xuan Origin Pills before Xiang Yun entered Battle Heaven Peak's Pill River.
• Xiang Yun absorbed Battle Heaven Peak's Nirvana Golden Qi in less than two days and told Xiang Huang he would challenge him after absorbing the Qi from the other Pill Rivers.
• Xiang Yun arrived at Battle Arts Peak, where Wu Xun welcomed him and heard that Xiang Yun planned to fight his father.
• Wu Xun spread word throughout Primordial Hall that Xiang Yun would challenge Xiang Huang, prompting Xiang Huang to confront him.
• Xiang Huang and Wu Xun agreed to ask the Hall Master to open the Primordial Battle Platform for the fight.
• Xiang Yun emerged with scorching Origin Energy surging around him, and Xiang Huang realized he had reached Five Yuan Nirvana.

After Xiang Yun reached the five yuan nirvana realm and advanced his Qiankun Battle Body, he challenged Xiang Huang on the Primordial Battle Platform. Xiang Yun opened the fight with the Qiankun Boundless Body and Heavenly Tyrant Fist, striking at his father as the spectators watched.

• Xiang Yun completed his breakthrough to five yuan nirvana, and the World Tree’s gains advanced his Qiankun Battle Body to three Earths and three Heavens and granted him the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Xiang Yun asked Xiang Huang to test his new strength, and Xiang Huang arranged for the Primordial Battle Platform to be opened.
• Disciples gathered around the platform and cheered Xiang Yun on, while Hong Wuji reminded both fighters to give their all.
• Xiang Huang released a formidable torrent of Origin Energy as the battle began.
• Xiang Yun activated the Qiankun Boundless Body and Primordial Battle Body, then charged Xiang Huang with a Heavenly Tyrant Fist.

Xiang Yun and Xiang Huang fought on the Primordial Battle Platform, and Xiang Yun’s combined techniques unleashed a punch with the destructive force of the Death Profound Realm. The chapter ended with Xiang Huang struck by the attack as the platform neared its limit.

• Xiang Yun and Xiang Huang exchanged punches, with Xiang Huang using the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms and Xiang Yun answering with the Heavenly Tyrant Fist.
• Xiang Yun empowered his Heavenly Tyrant Fist with the Heavenly Horned Ant and Kun Peng Precious Techniques, forcing Xiang Huang to use World Suppression.
• Xiang Yun and Xiang Huang fought at close range until Xiang Yun sent Xiang Huang flying, shocking the onlookers.
• Xiang Yun combined his Tyrant Body, precious techniques, and World Suppression into a final Heavenly Tyrant Fist that struck Xiang Huang.
• The impact produced Death Profound Realm-level destructive force and pushed the Primordial Battle Platform toward its limit, while Zhong Ling realized he could not have survived the punch.

Xiang Yun defeated his father, Xiang Huang, in a battle on the Primordial battle platform, proving that his Five Yuan Nirvana strength could overwhelm an Advanced Life Profound fighter. As the disciples hailed him, Hong Wuji worried that the Yuan Sect would target him.

• Xiang Huang and Xiang Yun traded powerful blows, with Xiang Yun standing firm against all three of Xiang Huang's Heaven-Breaking Forms.
• Xiang Yun combined his martial techniques and shattered Xiang Huang's final Heaven Breaking fist, then struck him into the battle platform.
• Xiang Huang rose despite his injuries, laughed, and praised Xiang Yun after acknowledging his victory.
• The disciples celebrated Xiang Yun's win, while Hong Wuji checked Xiang Huang's injuries and warned that the Eastern Xuan Region would hear of Xiang Yun's strength.
• Hong Wuji worried that the Yuan Sect might target Xiang Yun, as it had Zhou Tong.

Xiang Yun secluded himself to unify his disparate powers, while rumors of his victory over an Advanced Life Profound expert stirred the Yuan Sect and Dao Sect into action. He realized that the Heavenly Tyrant Body should dominate and absorb his other body-refining arts rather than merge with them as equals.

• Xiang Yun considered how to combine his techniques and began cultivating with Xuan Origin Pills while secluded within Primordial Peak.
• Tian Yuanzi ordered the Yuan Sect to use an exchange with the super sects in the Great Desolate Region to test the rumors about Xiang Yun, despite the risk to their remaining arrangements there.
• Ying Xuanzi and the grand elder discussed testing Xiang Yun at the three-sect exchange and considered allowing him to comprehend the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Rumors about Xiang Yun drew figures from across the Eastern Xuan Region into the Great Desolate Region to investigate his strength.
• Xiang Yun concluded that the Heavenly Tyrant Body should subdue the Qiankun Battle Body, Primordial Battle Body, and other body-refining arts, turning them into nourishment and enhancement.

Xiang Yun completed the first level of the Heavenly Battle Body and learned that Jiang Ba of Tyrant Extreme Mountain was challenging Primordial Hall disciples with suspicious lightning-based power. As Jiang Ba gained the upper hand over Wang Wu, Xiang Yun arrived to confront him.

• Xiang Yun refined the Primordial Battle Body and Qiankun Battle Body into the first level of the Heavenly Battle Body, whose dominance let him exceed his former physical limit.
• Xiang Yun discovered that Jiang Ba of Tyrant Extreme Mountain had defeated Primordial Hall’s Seven Yuan Nirvana disciples and set out to challenge him.
• Jiang Ba used a lightning martial art to paralyze Wang Wu and taunted the Primordial Hall’s younger generation.
• Hong Wen suspected Jiang Ba’s lightning technique came from the Yuan Sect’s Thunder Emperor Canon and that the challenge was meant to probe Xiang Yun.
• Xiang Yun arrived at the platform and called Jiang Ba a Tyrant mutt who dared to bark at the Primordial Hall.

Xiang Yun exposed Jiang Ba’s Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder as a Yuan Sect ploy and killed him with a single punch, though he claimed Jiang Ba escaped using a blood escape. He seized the thunder pearl and drove Jiang Fulong and the others away, warning them that the Great Desolate Region belonged to the Primordial Hall.

• Xiang Yun pulled the Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder from Wang Wu and identified it as a power tied to the Yuan Sect.
• Jiang Ba charged up with the thunder and attacked Xiang Yun, who shattered his defenses with one punch and left a thunder pearl amid the bloody mist.
• Xiang Yun seized the thunder pearl and accused the Yuan Sect of using Jiang Ba to test him.
• Jiang Fulong tried to attack Xiang Yun, but Hong Wen restrained him.
• Xiang Yun threatened Jiang Fulong and ordered the Yuan Sect’s men to leave the Primordial Hall’s territory.

After Tyrant Extreme Mountain’s defeat, Xiang Yun and Hong Wuji discussed countering the Yuan Sect’s growing influence by forging alliances with the Immortal Sacred Whales, Dao Sect, and Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace. Xiang Yun then gave Hong Wuji a strength-amplifying art that could let him challenge an ordinary Reincarnation Stage expert.

• Xiang Yun watched Jiang Fulong and Tyrant Extreme Mountain’s disciples leave, then returned to the Primordial Battle Hall to speak with Hong Wuji.
• Xiang Yun and Hong Wuji discussed the Yuan Sect’s schemes and planned to enlist the Immortal Sacred Whales, Dao Sect, and Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace against it.
• Xiang Yun told Hong Wuji that Zhou Tong might still be alive and said he would persuade Ying Xuanzi to act.
• Hong Wuji said he had sent a Death Profound Realm elder to contact the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan.
• Xiang Yun gave Hong Wuji a jade slip containing the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art, a martial art that amplified strength.

Xiang Yun gave Hong Wuji a strength-amplifying art that could stack with the Primordial Battle Body, then agreed to seek a place at Martial Gathering Island next year. He visited Battle Heaven Peak and encouraged Lin Feihu to undergo his Nirvana tribulation within a month.

• Xiang Yun explained that the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art could add roughly tenfold strength and stack with the Primordial Battle Body, prompting Hong Wuji to study it.
• Hong Wuji told Xiang Yun about Primordial Hall's connection to the Gu Family and its chance to compete for a place on Martial Gathering Island; Xiang Yun agreed to go next year.
• Xiang Yun promised to become strong enough to slay a Death Profound expert before the trip, then left to visit his father and cultivate.
• Xiang Yun found Xiang Huang drilling Battle Heaven Peak's disciples and told Lin Feihu that he could break through within a month.
• Xiang Yun offered to help Lin Feihu with the Primordial Battle Body, and Lin Feihu confidently agreed to undergo his tribulation within a month.

Xiang Yun trained the Primordial Hall disciples by forcing them to attack him under the pressure of his Origin Energy. Lin Feihu overcame his fear and reached Eight Yuan Nirvana after Xiang Yun directed him to cultivate on a Pill River platform.

• Xiang Yun corrected the Battle Heaven Peak disciples’ understanding of the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms and demanded that they punch him.
• Xiang Yun expanded to fifty feet and unleashed immense Origin Energy pressure, forcing most of the disciples to their knees while Lin Feihu struggled to remain standing.
• Xiang Yun insulted the disciples and challenged them to attack, prompting Lin Feihu to break through his fear and charge with the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms.
• Lin Feihu and the other disciples repeatedly attacked Xiang Yun, who stood motionless and urged them to hit harder.
• Xiang Yun called out to Lin Feihu, who used the force of his attacks to reach a Pill River platform and cultivate until he advanced to Eight Yuan Nirvana.

Ren Yuanzi planned to use Zhou Tong against Xiang Yun after Jiang Ba’s defeat, while the Dao Sect prepared to host an exchange with the Primordial Hall and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace. As the Primordial Hall arrived, Xiang Yun considered the Yuan Sect’s past scheme against Wang Jie and resolved to deal with the Three Little Kings if the scheme came to pass again.

• Ren Yuanzi learned that Xiang Yun had defeated Jiang Ba despite the Yin Nether Heavenly Thunder and considered seeking permission to use Zhou Tong against him and Hong Wuji.
• Ying Xuanzi gathered the Dao Sect’s hall masters and disciples to welcome the visiting sects, while Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao discussed Xiang Yun’s strength.
• Hong Wuji arrived with the Primordial Hall’s delegation, and Ying Xuanzi sensed that Hong Wuji had grown more powerful.
• Xiang Yun surveyed the Dao Sect’s disciples and recalled that Wang Jie had died in a Yuan Sect scheme at the previous sect competition.
• Xiang Yun decided that if the Yuan Sect’s scheme against the Dao Sect happened again, he would kill the Three Little Kings within three punches.

Xiang Yun welcomed the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace to the Dao Sect’s three-sect exchange and met Ling Qingzhu again, while the visiting disciples debated their lodging arrangements. After yielding the preferred halls to Taiqing Palace, Xiang Yun prepared to use the exchange to demonstrate the Primordial Hall’s strength and pursue his own request.

• Ying Xuanzi and Hong Wuji discussed the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace’s expected arrival as Xiang Yun noticed Ying Huanhuan glaring at him.
• Yi Taiqing arrived with Ling Qingzhu, and Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu exchanged glances while Yi Taiqing tried to assess Xiang Yun.
• Yi Taiqing went with the other sect leaders to Dao Xuan Peak and left Ling Qingzhu to follow the Dao Sect’s arrangements for the visiting disciples.
• Ying Xiaoxiao assigned the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace the Earth and Flood Halls and the Primordial Hall the Heaven and Desolate Halls, prompting objections from Taiqing Palace disciples.
• Xiang Yun offered Taiqing Palace the Heaven and Earth Halls and asked the Primordial Hall disciples to accept the Flood and Desolate Halls; they obeyed in unison.

Ying Huanhuan escorted Xiang Yun to Desolate Hall and tried to probe whether he had truly defeated Xiang Huang, but Xiang Yun saw through her goading and offered to prove his strength if she wagered the Great Desolation Scripture. As they arrived, Xiang Yun surveyed Dao Sect’s resources and criticized the quality of its disciples, irritating Ying Huanhuan.

• Ying Xiaoxiao assigned Yuan Yun to escort the Primordial Hall cultivators to Flood Hall, while Xiang Yun sent Ning Chen and Feihu to stay there and chose to visit Desolate Hall.
• Ying Huanhuan volunteered to guide Xiang Yun, and Ling Qingzhu noticed her interest in him.
• Ying Huanhuan questioned whether Xiang Yun had really beaten Xiang Huang, but Xiang Yun dismissed her doubts and offered to fight if she wagered the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Xiang Yun recognized that Ying Huanhuan was trying to fish for information, and she called him an arrogant jerk with no sense of romance.
• Xiang Yun admired Desolate Hall’s resources and described how Yuan Sect’s victories and influence had allowed it to grow stronger than the other super sects.
• Xiang Yun criticized the quality of Dao Sect’s disciples, leaving Ying Huanhuan grinding her teeth in irritation.

Xiang Yun settled the Primordial Hall disciples in the Desolate Hall and traded barbs with Ying Huanhuan before Ling Qingzhu arrived to speak with him privately. Ling Qingzhu revealed that her master had come to see him, and Xiang Yun remarked that Ling had benefited greatly from their past encounter.

• Ying Huanhuan showed Xiang Yun where the Primordial Hall disciples would stay and explained the Desolate Hall's cultivation rules.
• Xiang Yun dismissed the Great Desolation Body and ordered Xun Wu and the others to avoid unnecessary clashes but never lose.
• Ling Qingzhu arrived, and Xiang Yun sent the Primordial Hall disciples away before he and Ling exchanged teasing remarks.
• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu moved to a quiet mountain peak, where he removed her veil and put it in his Universe Bag.
• Ling Qingzhu said her master had come specifically to see Xiang Yun, and Xiang Yun noted that Ling had reached Three Yuan Nirvana after benefiting from their past encounter.

Xiang Yun reunited with Ling Qingzhu, listened to her complaints about competition within the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, and teased her about Ying Huanhuan before taking her to the Desolate Hall’s cultivation room. The chapter ended with them becoming intimate, which Ling Qingzhu justified as cultivation.

• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu sat together, and he asked about her strength and standing in the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
• Ling Qingzhu told Xiang Yun that senior sisters had begun competing with her for cultivation resources since she entered the Nirvana Realm.
• Xiang Yun offered to beat up Ling Qingzhu’s rivals, then told her he had met Ying Huanhuan in the Geomagnetic Mountain Range.
• Xiang Yun kissed Ling Qingzhu when she denied being jealous, then carried her to the Desolate Hall’s resting hall as Xun Wu watched.
• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu entered a cultivation room and became intimate, with Ling Qingzhu saying she did it all for cultivation.

Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu cultivated together, and he gained a strand of Chaos Light after comprehending Supreme Power. When they returned to the hall, Yi Taiqing reprimanded Ling Qingzhu and challenged Xiang Yun, who openly called himself her Dao companion and defended his youthful boldness.

• Xiang Yun and Ling Qingzhu cultivated in the cultivation room, stabilizing her breakthrough to Three Yuan Nirvana while Xiang Yun developed his Innate Dao Embryo.
• Xiang Yun discovered a strand of Chaos Light in his dantian and realized he had comprehended Supreme Power, which could strengthen his bargain with the Great Desolation Tablet and help suppress Yimo.
• Xiang Yun woke Ling Qingzhu, and the two returned to the main hall, where Hong Wuji and Yi Taiqing had been waiting.
• Yi Taiqing scolded Ling Qingzhu for being away too long, but Xiang Yun stepped in and defended her.
• Xiang Yun declared that he was Ling Qingzhu's Dao companion, and Yi Taiqing warned him about recklessness by invoking Zhou Tong's fate.