Recaps

Li Yunjing refined two ordinary Jade Lingzhi Pills, then confronted Golden-Feathered Eagles attacking the Luozhen Sect’s spirit birds and marked them so he could capture their flock later. He advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and waited anxiously for Mo Xuan, who returned at dawn after investigating a possible attack on the Wang Household.

• Li Yunjing refined seven Jade Lingzhi Pills, but five were ruined and two were usable; reviewing his mistakes improved his confidence in refining them again.
• Lü Hong alerted Li Yunjing to trouble at the Poultry Coop, where three Golden-Feathered Eagles were fighting the Green-Headed Cranes and guinea fowl.
• Li Yunjing restrained the eagles, marked them, and let them escape so he could find and capture their whole flock for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing cultivated through the night and advanced from the Foundation Establishment Early Stage to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Li Yunjing waited for Mo Xuan, concerned about a possible Zhao Household and Heavenly Star Bandits attack on the Wang Household; Mo Xuan returned at seven in the morning, and Li Yunjing told him to rest before important business.

Mo Xuan reported that the Wang Household had become a subordinate of the Luozhen Sect, and Li Yunjing approved its contract. After visiting his late master Nangong Chengyu's grave, Li Yunjing found an unsent letter addressed to Wang Qianxue in the cottage.

• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing how the Immortal Alliance captured the Heavenly Star Bandits and punished the six lineages that attacked the Wang Household.
• Mo Xuan presented the Wang Household's contract, and Li Yunjing approved it and stamped it with the Luozhen Sect's seal for preliminary signing.
• Lin Xuan arrived to cook for the Foundation Establishment Banquet and gave Li Yunjing a small gift, which Li Yunjing sent to the Scripture Repository.
• Li Yunjing left Shui Yao in charge and visited Nangong Chengyu's grave to pay his respects.
• Li Yunjing tidied Nangong Chengyu's cottage and found a letter addressed to Wang Qianxue, then decided to read it.

Li Yunjing found Nangong Chengyu’s long-undelivered apology letter to Wang Qianxue, then hosted a Foundation Establishment Banquet that drew several influential guests. Wang Qianxue arrived with Huo Junrui and new Immortal Alliance deacon Li Jie, who praised Li Yunjing’s actions against the bandit cultivators and said they would discuss the matter after the banquet.

• Li Yunjing found Nangong Chengyu’s apology letter to Wang Qianxue in his master’s cottage and took it with him.
• Li Yunjing welcomed Departing Maple Sect leader Su Zhen and his party, then received Treasure Gathering Pavilion shopkeeper Luo Qiyuan at the banquet.
• Li Yunjing greeted second-rank Alchemist Ding Qifeng, who agreed to stay longer at the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing waited at the mountain gate for Wang Qianxue, who arrived with Huo Junrui and new Immortal Alliance deacon Li Jie.
• Li Jie praised Li Yunjing for his handling of the bandit cultivators and said they would talk after the banquet.

Li Yunjing hosted the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment Banquet, where guests sought new dealings and alliances with the sect. The Immortal Alliance deacons revealed that Li Yunjing’s help had earned their branch a commendation and the chance to expand.

• Li Yunjing welcomed Wang Qianxue, Huo Junrui, and Li Jie, then announced the banquet and toasted his guests.
• Luo Qiyuan asked to buy more spiritual chicken eggs, explaining their value and warning that the Golden Scale Sect was interested; Li Yunjing agreed to provide fifty eggs.
• Su Zhen asked Li Yunjing to form an alliance with the Departing Maple Sect, and Li Yunjing said he would consider it.
• Li Jie told Li Yunjing that the bandit cultivators he had handed over helped the Immortal Alliance crack a major case, earning its Xunxian Town branch a commendation and permission to expand.

At Li Yunjing’s Foundation Establishment banquet, Huo Junrui publicly revealed that Li had achieved Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment, while Wang Qianxue explained that reporting it earlier could have improved the Luozhen Sect’s Immortal Alliance rating. Wang then disclosed the Heavenly Star Bandits’ activity and organized the gathered factions to help destroy their den.

• Huo Junrui learned that Li Yunjing had reached Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment and announced it to everyone at the training ground.
• Wang Qianxue used Li’s Immortal Alliance Token to reveal that the Luozhen Sect had risen to a lower-middle rating, but would have to wait a year before applying for another assessment.
• Wang Qianxue told the banquet guests that six lineages on Seven Ingenuities Mountain had grown Illusory Spirit Flowers for the Heavenly Star Bandits, and that Li Yunjing had reported the danger.
• Wang Qianxue revealed that the Immortal Alliance had captured two Heavenly Star Bandits and learned they were recruiting rogue cultivators at a nearby den.
• Li Yunjing and the other gathered factions agreed to cooperate in eliminating the bandit den and await the Immortal Alliance’s orders.

After the guests departed from the Luozhen Sect’s Foundation Establishment Banquet, Wang Qianxue read a letter from Li Yunjing’s master, Nangong Chengyu, and revealed that his death may not have been caused by illness. Li Yunjing suspected that someone had poisoned Nangong Chengyu, but he did not know who or why.

• Jin Wuxu, Luo Qiyuan, and Jiang Chuan left the Luozhen Sect with their companions, and Jiang Chuan warned Li Yunjing that Gu Lin might resent him while forging his artifact.
• Li Yunjing told Jiang Chuan he still intended to bring the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion into the Luozhen Sect within a year.
• Li Yunjing gave Wang Qianxue the letter from Nangong Chengyu, and she asked where his grave was after reading it.
• Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing that Nangong Chengyu’s death had another cause, explaining that his medicinal spirit physique made illness unlikely.
• Li Yunjing considered the evidence and suspected that Nangong Chengyu had been killed by a rare, high-grade poison.

Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing she would continue investigating Nangong Chengyu’s death, while Li Yunjing focused on hosting Ding Qifeng at the Luozhen Sect. Ding Qifeng improved the Alchemy Chamber’s array and taught Li Yunjing to refine True Condensation Pills, then noticed the pills turned out differently than expected.

• Wang Qianxue promised to investigate Nangong Chengyu’s death and urged Li Yunjing to rebuild the Luozhen Sect before leaving for Nangong Chengyu’s grave.
• Li Yunjing gave Ding Qifeng and his two alchemy attendants private guest rooms in his cave abode.
• Ding Qifeng corrected an array pattern at the Alchemy Chamber, improving its spirit flame and reducing Spirit Stone consumption.
• Ding Qifeng taught Li Yunjing how to refine True Condensation Pills, with Li Yunjing assisting during the process.
• Ding Qifeng collected the finished pills and noticed their quality differed from what he expected, giving him new ideas for refining them more efficiently.

Li Yunjing learned that the Alchemy Chamber was improving Ding Qifeng’s pill-refining insights and distributed the Foundation Establishment banquet gifts among the Luozhen Sect. The next day, he set out for Xunxian Town to plan building upgrades and buy supplies, weighing those costs against the materials needed for a sword formation.

• Ding Qifeng noticed that refining pills in the Alchemy Chamber gave him deeper insights, while Li Yunjing kept the chamber’s effects mysterious.
• Li Yunjing listed Ding Qifeng’s eight True Condensation Pills for exchange and entrusted them to Mo Xuan for safekeeping.
• Shui Yao showed Li Yunjing the banquet gifts, including 5,673 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and several spiritual items, and he rewarded her and the five disciples with Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing planned to upgrade the sect’s buildings and later establish structures such as a Heroic Spirit Monument and a Luozhen Sect market.
• The next morning, Li Yunjing left Mo Xuan in charge and headed to Xunxian Town to buy a formations primer, consider building upgrades, and assess the cost of materials for the Seventy-Two Sword Killing Formation.

Li Yunjing visited the Treasure Gathering Pavilion to buy materials for upgrading buildings at the Luozhen Sect and received Heaven-Character VIP status. Luo Qiyuan then told him the Golden Scale Sect had learned about the spirit chicken eggs, and Li Yunjing agreed to meet them and discuss cooperation.

• Li Yunjing noticed cultivators in Xunxian Town treating him with admiration after news spread of the Luozhen Sect’s three Foundation Establishment cultivators and his Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment.
• Duan Yang gave Li Yunjing a Heaven-Character VIP Token issued by the Heaven and Earth Treasure Gathering Pavilion and escorted him to the third floor.
• Li Yunjing ordered materials to upgrade the scripture library, Disciple Quarters, training grounds, Alchemy Chamber, and herb garden.
• Luo Qiyuan explained that the Golden Scale Sect wanted to meet Li Yunjing because wild Golden-Feathered Eagles had told them about the spirit chicken eggs.
• Li Yunjing suspected the eagles he had encountered at the Poultry Coop had revealed the eggs and agreed to meet the Golden Scale Sect.

Li Yunjing collected materials from the Treasure Gathering Pavilion using his new hundred-thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stone credit limit, then spotted and bought a damaged pagoda that might contain a sect’s core inheritance. He left Xunxian Town and hurried back to the Luozhen Sect with the pagoda and his purchases.

• Duan Yang told Li Yunjing that his Heaven-Character VIP Token came with a hundred-thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stone credit limit and gave him a Storage Bag for free.
• Li Yunjing obtained the materials he needed, along with twenty-four first-grade Law Swords, one second-grade Law Sword, and introductory formation books.
• Li Yunjing noticed an inscription on a damaged pagoda at a street stall suggesting it held a Dao lineage’s true inheritance, then bought it for sixty-three Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• After Li Yunjing left, cultivators rushed to buy the vendor’s remaining Law Artifacts, believing his patronage proved they were valuable.
• Li Yunjing left Xunxian Town using Wind-Riding Escape and hurried back to the Luozhen Sect.

Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect, where he learned that a Jade Firmament Jujube Tree seedling had sprouted and welcomed Ding Qifeng’s extended stay. When he read the inscription on a little pagoda in High Antiquity pronunciation, it vanished in a burst of golden light.

• Li Yunjing met Zhang Hongzhi’s three new apprentices and agreed to rely on them after the veteran craftsmen finished building five structures.
• Ding Qifeng identified a seedling in the medicine field as a Jade Firmament Jujube Tree, a rare lifespan-extending spirit tree.
• Ding Qifeng asked to stay longer at the Luozhen Sect and went with Li Yunjing to pay respects at Nangong Chengyu’s grave, where they saw Wang Qianxue leaving after crying.
• Ding Qifeng went to the pill-refining room while Li Yunjing returned to his cave abode to study the little pagoda.
• Li Yunjing read the pagoda’s inscription in High Antiquity pronunciation, causing it to float, shine with golden light, and disappear.

Li Yunjing discovered three seventh-grade inheritances left by the Mist-Hidden Sect and decided to cultivate the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture. He upgraded the Luozhen Sect’s herb garden and began upgrading the Scripture Pavilion.

• Li Yunjing examined the Three Yang True Body Refinement Method, Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture, and Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book, and resolved to keep the inheritances secret.
• Li Yunjing learned that the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture’s lower section could take him to Golden Core, and planned to switch to it after upgrading five buildings.
• Li Yunjing found that the herb garden held several mature spirit medicines, including twelve-year-old Yellow Jade Grass and Spirit-Calming Flower.
• Li Yunjing used three bottles of first-grade Moonlight Grass juice and forty Low-Grade Spirit Stones to upgrade the herb garden from lv2 to lv3.
• Li Yunjing went to the Scripture Pavilion and upgraded it from lv3 to lv4.

Li Yunjing upgraded several Luozhen Sect buildings and discovered that the Alchemy Chamber could produce Pill-Pattern Spirit Liquid. When Ding Qifeng reported that the herb garden’s medicines had matured and aged overnight, Li Yunjing explained that Patriarch Fang Hexuan had manifested his power and claimed Fang had appeared in his dream.

• Li Yunjing saw the Scripture Repository’s level-five effects and decided to recruit twenty more disciples for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Disciple Quarters and training ground, discovering that they could bless sleeping disciples and improve Law Techniques.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Alchemy Chamber and learned it could produce Pill-Pattern Spirit Liquid that gave spirit pills patterns.
• Ding Qifeng found that the herb garden’s medicines had matured overnight and gained a year of age.
• Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng that Patriarch Fang Hexuan had entered his dream and caused the herb garden’s changes.

Li Yunjing told Ding Qifeng that the Luozhen Sect’s missing grandmaster, Fang Hexuan, had appeared in a dream and promised to support the sect, though Ding Qifeng barely believed him and chose not to pry. Li Yunjing then arranged for Mo Xuan and Shui Yao to recruit disciples, set out to finalize an agreement with the Wang Household, and took his first ride on a Green-Headed Crane.

• Li Yunjing claimed that Fang Hexuan had appeared in his dream and would support the Luozhen Sect, and Ding Qifeng warned him to keep the story secret.
• Ding Qifeng privately admitted that he believed little of Li Yunjing’s explanation but would not investigate the sect’s opportunity.
• Li Yunjing gave Mo Xuan and Shui Yao Storage Bags and assigned them to recruit new disciples.
• Li Yunjing prepared to travel to sign a contract with the Wang Household before the Xunxian Town Immortal Alliance.
• Li Yunjing mounted a Green-Headed Crane and rode it into the sky.

Li Yunjing finalized the Wang Household’s contract to become a subordinate sect of the Luozhen Sect and arranged for several Wang family youths to join. Afterward, Wang Qianxue warned him about an upcoming raid on a bandit hideout and asked him to call her “Mistress,” while Li Yunjing wondered whether he might someday meet Nangong Chengyu’s reincarnation.

• Li Yunjing met Sikong Ying and the Wang Household’s representatives at the Immortal Alliance, where the three parties signed the contract making the Wang Household a subordinate sect of the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing told Wang Jue to send eight newly eligible youths, Wang Shanming, and two beast-taming youths to the Luozhen Sect.
• Wang Qianxue told Li Yunjing that the Immortal Alliance would attack the bandit cultivators the next day and warned him about their powerful Foundation Establishment fighters.
• Wang Qianxue asked Li Yunjing to call her “Mistress” and keep the matter from others; Li Yunjing agreed and left the courtyard.
• Li Yunjing reflected on his new bond with Wang Qianxue and wondered whether he could ever find Nangong Chengyu’s reincarnation.

Li Yunjing checked on his custom Law Artifact, then returned to the Luozhen Sect after preparing to join the Immortal Alliance’s bandit-clearing mission. At the sect, he bought eight spirit medicines from Lei Yang and his companions, then hurried to the medicinal herb garden with them.

• Li Yunjing visited the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, learned his Law Artifact was still a rough blank, and met Gu Lin’s daughter, Gu Xuan.
• After Li Yunjing left, Gu Xuan told Jiang Chuan she wanted to join the Luozhen Sect and achieve Heaven-Grade Foundation Establishment.
• Li Yunjing rode a Green-Headed Crane toward the Luozhen Sect and received a warning that five people were trying to break through its mountain gate.
• Li Yunjing found Lei Yang and four companions unconscious outside the gate, revived them, and brought them into the sect.
• Lei Yang and his companions offered eight spirit medicines, and Li Yunjing agreed to buy them for three hundred and fifty Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Yunjing sent the five to Shui Yao to collect payment and hurried to the medicinal herb garden with the medicines.

Li Yunjing replanted eight spirit herbs, welcomed new members of the Wang Household into the Luozhen Sect, and went to Xunxian Town to join the Immortal Alliance’s bandit suppression. He hesitated over an alliance with the Departing Maple Sect, learned the Li Household had fled town, and secretly set off with Wang Qianxue and the others while Li Qiuchen approached an unknown group on a mountain.

• Li Yunjing replanted eight spirit herbs in the medicine garden and asked Lei Yang and the others to bring him more herbs in the future.
• Li Yunjing left Mo Xuan in charge as acting sect leader, then departed for Xunxian Town while Wang Shanming led eleven members of the Wang Household into the Luozhen Sect.
• At the Immortal Alliance, Li Yunjing told Su Zhen he needed several days to consider an alliance between the Luozhen Sect and the Departing Maple Sect.
• A Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator told Li Yunjing that the Li Household had fled Xunxian Town after rumors spread that Li Wan was near death.
• Wang Qianxue led Li Yunjing and the gathered cultivators through a hidden passage to secretly attack the Heavenly Star Bandits’ hideout northwest of town.
• Li Qiuchen climbed a nameless mountain and identified himself after hearing bird calls from the surrounding bushes.

Li Qiuchen confronted Du Man over the Heavenly Star Bandits killing his grandfather, then asked them to destroy the Luozhen Sect in exchange for a promised gift. Du Xingyu recognized the words “Flying Star” as a clue and, after hearing that sect leaders had gathered at the Immortal Alliance, dismissed Du Man’s fears.

• Li Qiuchen argued with Du Man about the death of his grandfather and said the Li Household could not supply the agreed hundred jin of Illusory Spirit Flowers until March next year.
• Li Qiuchen asked Du Man to destroy the Luozhen Sect and promised a generous gift tied to the words “Flying Star.”
• A flying sword bearing Du Xingyu’s mark arrived from a spy in Xunxian Town, and Du Man carried its letter to his father.
• Du Man relayed Li Qiuchen’s request, and Du Xingyu reacted excitedly when he heard “Flying Star.”
• Du Man read a letter reporting that major sect leaders had gathered at the Immortal Alliance, but Du Xingyu dismissed his warning and boasted about his spies.

Li Yunjing and the Immortal Alliance team ambushed bandit cultivators escaping Nameless Mountain. He fought the white-bearded old man guarding Du Man, gaining the upper hand with ten blazing flying swords.

• Du Man apologized to Du Xingyu, then left the wooden house angry and sought someone to vent his frustration on.
• Wang Qianxue assigned Li Yunjing, Su Zhen, Jiang Liuyun, and two others to guard a concealed exit from Nameless Mountain.
• Sikong Ying used his Divine Sense to incapacitate the mountain’s sentries, and the suppression operation began.
• Li Yunjing sensed approaching cultivators before the others and warned his companions to prepare an ambush.
• Six people emerged from the cave, including Du Man and five Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Li Yunjing’s group secretly chose opponents.
• Li Yunjing attacked Du Man, but the white-bearded old man blocked the strike and fought Li Yunjing; Li Yunjing summoned ten blazing flying swords to counter him.

Li Yunjing wore down and killed the white-bearded old man, then helped his allies defeat the other bandit cultivators. While searching the old man’s possessions, he found the rare second-grade Five-Colored Lotus, whose petals could raise cultivation or heal injuries and would regrow after plucking.

• Li Yunjing used Wind-Riding Escape and repeated Fire Mysterious Light attacks to exhaust the old man’s Law Power and break through his Kan Primordial Flag’s defenses.
• Li Yunjing killed the old man and joined the other four cultivators, helping them defeat all five bandit cultivators.
• Li Yunjing knocked Du Man unconscious with his Divine Sense and guarded the cave while the others restored their Law Power.
• Li Yunjing claimed the Kan Primordial Flag and the old man’s Storage Bag, then learned the flag’s water attribute clashed with his fire techniques.
• Li Yunjing found a rare second-grade Five-Colored Lotus among the old man’s possessions and recognized that its petals could boost cultivation or heal injuries and would regrow.

Li Yunjing and the others finished searching the cave and reported their capture of Du Man to Wang Qianxue, who recognized the captive as the son of a Heavenly Star Bandit chief lieutenant. As Wang Qianxue took Du Man away, he claimed he had information about a traitor in Xunxian Town and pointed to Li Yunjing.

• Li Yunjing stored the Five-Colored Lotus and traded some of the spoils offered by Su Zhen and Jiang Liuyun for Storage Bags.
• Li Yunjing and the other four left the cave after receiving Wang Qianxue's message and joined the Immortal Alliance members clearing the battlefield.
• Li Yunjing reported what happened and presented Du Man to Wang Qianxue, who identified him as Du Xingyu's son and praised the group for capturing him.
• Li Yunjing insisted that Su Zhen and the others share the credit, and Wang Qianxue agreed to recognize their contributions.
• Du Man overheard Su Zhen mention the Luozhen Sect and decided to implicate Li Qiuchen and the Li Household in revenge.
• Du Man stopped Wang Qianxue and claimed he knew of a traitor in Xunxian Town, then pointed to Li Yunjing as the person who needed to hear about it.

Du Man revealed that Li Qiuchen and the Li Household had helped the Heavenly Star Bandits grow Illusory Spirit Flowers and had plotted against Li Wan and the Luozhen Sect. Wang Qianxue promised Li Yunjing a chance to act against the guilty Li Household members, then awarded him a Three-Transformation Golden Core for his service in the bandit campaign.

• Du Man identified Li Qiuchen and the Li Household as traitors and explained their role in the Heavenly Star Bandits’ Illusory Spirit Flower operation.
• Du Man revealed that Li Qiuchen had offered the bandits a flying star to wipe out the Luozhen Sect and that the bandits had killed Li Wan before he could report them.
• Wang Qianxue promised Du Man leniency in prison and told Li Yunjing she would investigate the Li Household and let him lead the arrest of Li Qiuchen.
• The Immortal Alliance returned to Xunxian Town and distributed rewards to the cultivators who had taken part in the campaign.
• Wang Qianxue awarded Li Yunjing one Major Merit, spirit stones, and a Three-Transformation Golden Core for killing a bandit and capturing Du Man alive.

Li Yunjing received a Three-Transformation Golden Core from the Immortal Alliance for capturing Du Man and discussed recruiting rejected Hundred Artifacts Pavilion apprentices with Jiang Chuan. He returned to the lively Luozhen Sect and decided to build an Oath Hall to strengthen the loyalty of its disciples.

• The Immortal Alliance rewarded Li Yunjing with a Three-Transformation Golden Core, and cultivators gathered to congratulate him as a future Golden Core True Person.
• Jiang Chuan told Li Yunjing that nine third-year apprentices had failed the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion's assessment and needed new work.
• Li Yunjing agreed that the Luozhen Sect would take five apprentices, and Jiang Chuan promised to send the five most skilled.
• Li Yunjing decided to recruit other kinds of apprentices and build an Oath Hall to restrain disciples who might betray the sect.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Luozhen Sect and saw Zhang Hanpeng and Lü Hong sparring as the Hu and Wang Household disciples cheered.

Li Yunjing met Shen Changfeng of the Golden Scale Sect to negotiate an exchange for the Luozhen Sect’s spirit chicken eggs. They agreed on monthly deliveries in return for basic beast-taming arts and access to carefully raised spirit pets.

• Li Yunjing left the Luozhen Sect for Xunxian Town to meet Shen Changfeng and visit Jiang Chuan about five selected apprentices.
• At the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Luo Qiyuan introduced Li Yunjing to Shen Changfeng, then left them to speak privately.
• Shen Changfeng explained that the Luozhen Sect’s spirit chicken eggs could purify spirit pets’ bloodlines and produce fast-growing, capable chicks, so the Golden Scale Sect wanted a steady supply.
• Li Yunjing offered one hundred eggs a month, and Shen Changfeng accepted.
• Li Yunjing requested basic beast-taming Dao arts, three kinds of adult spirit birds, and discounted, carefully raised young spirit pets in exchange.

Li Yunjing reached an agreement with Shen Changfeng for the Golden Scale Sect to provide the Beast King Heart Sutra and spirit birds to the Luozhen Sect. At the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, Gu Lin confronted Li Yunjing over his daughter’s wish to join the Luozhen Sect, then learned she had no interest in inheriting the pavilion.

• Shen Changfeng agreed to provide the Beast King Heart Sutra for Luozhen Sect members and six First-Tier Perfection spirit birds, on the condition that the technique would not be passed to outsiders.
• Li Yunjing thanked Luo Qiyuan for mediating and went to the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion, where Jiang Chuan introduced five apprentices who would join the Luozhen Sect.
• Gu Lin angrily accused Li Yunjing of persuading Gu Xuan to join the Luozhen Sect, but Jiang Chuan confirmed Li Yunjing had never asked her to do so.
• Jiang Chuan explained that Gu Xuan wanted to leave because she disliked inheriting the pavilion and had been sheltered from the outside world; Gu Lin was stunned to learn she did not want to take over his life’s work.