Recaps

After Chu Feng became a Half-Saint, King Hengjiang helped explain his rise by recalling the academy’s old praise of him as a potential Great Emperor and Literary Saint reincarnated. Chu Feng returned to his disciples, learned their plans, and the Dao-Seeking Academy erupted with news of his breakthrough as the academy head looked forward to his future.

• King Hengjiang explained that the academy head and Chief Kong had long praised Chu Feng’s talents, and later revealed they had privately believed him to be the Literary Saint reincarnated.
• Chu Feng met with his disciples, said he had gathered just over twenty portions of the True Essence of the Great Dao, and heard Xiao Chen, Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, and Wang Baole share their plans.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian offered to accompany Wang Baole to visit the Wang Clan, and Wang Baole gladly accepted.
• The forces departed the Great Void Secret Realm, and news of Chu Feng becoming a Half-Saint stirred the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• The Carefree Sword King decided to enter seclusion to pursue the Half-Saint realm, while the academy head celebrated Chu Feng’s potential to become another Great Emperor.

Chu Feng returned to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute and hosted visiting elders, who helped him look for disciples suited to brewing wine. He then guided Xu Caichen toward practicing the six arts and studying the Analects of Swinging, leaving Xu determined to become a gentleman.

• Xu Caichen welcomed Chu Feng and his fellow disciples back, then arranged a visit from elders seeking to pay Chu Feng their respects.
• Chu Feng hosted the elders at a banquet, shared Elder Bai's hundred-year-old monkey wine, and agreed to seek a wine-brewing disciple.
• Xu Caichen brought Chu Feng his questions, and Chu Feng wrote the character for “righteous,” which Xu struggled to look at.
• Chu Feng told Xu to study the Analects of Swinging and practice martial skills, explaining that Xu's rigid book learning had kept him from gaining Righteous Qi of Heaven and Earth.
• Xu questioned why he was not a gentleman, and Chu Feng challenged him to learn all six arts; Xu then asked for the Analects of Swinging.

Chu Feng completed a painting of Saint Kong that sent a surge of literary Dao light through the Dao-Seeking Academy, prompting its nine chiefs to enter seclusion and pursue breakthroughs. He gave Xu Caichen the Analects of Swinging and the painting, leaving his disciples stunned by his unconventional teachings.

• Chu Feng finished painting Saint Kong lifting a city gate, and the portrait released a towering burst of literary Dao light that drew attention across the academy.
• The Profound Fire Pill King decided to enter seclusion to break through to Half-Saint, while the dean welcomed the prospect of the nine chiefs advancing and planned to rely on Chu Feng if trouble came.
• Chu Feng emerged after seven days and nights, asked Xu Caichen about his body training, and gave him a booklet containing the Analects of Swinging.
• Chu Feng's disciples read annotations that interpreted the Analects as instructions for fighting groups of opponents, and Cao Youqian questioned whether the interpretation was correct.
• Xu Caichen opened Chu Feng's portrait of Saint Kong, whose image contained the True Essence of the Great Dao, then knelt to thank Chu Feng for the technique.

Xiao Chen and his fellow disciples traveled to the Cangyun Wang Clan for Old Master Wang’s eight-hundredth birthday banquet, while the Sima family head learned of their arrival and prepared to attend. At the Wang residence, Madam Wang learned that Wang Baole had returned with friends and ordered the steward to find them a place to stay.

• Xiao Chen collected his disciples’ Sword Jades and, the next day, left the Dao-Seeking Academy with Cao Youqian, Liu Yue'er, Wang Baole, and Nangong Yu, escorted by the Mountain-Moving Marquis.
• Xiao Chen’s group reached Luo City, bought Gale Steeds, and rode toward the Cangyun Wang Clan.
• The Sima family head learned that Xiao Chen and Wang Baole were headed to the Wang Clan and decided to bring a generous birthday gift, expecting a spectacle at the banquet.
• Wang Chongyi dismissed Madam Wang’s concerns about Wang Yulin and returned to preparing for the ancestor’s birthday celebration.
• Madam Wang learned that Wang Baole had arrived with friends and ordered the steward to find them lodging until the banquet.

Wang Baole returned to the Wang Clan with his senior brothers and sisters to see Wang Yulin and attend the patriarch’s birthday banquet, where he planned to break off his engagement. After realizing he wanted to marry Wang Yufei, he let Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian take charge of making the matter public.

• Wang Baole refused the old steward’s offer of guest rooms and settled with his companions in his neglected former courtyard.
• Wang Baole learned the patriarch would not receive visitors before his birthday banquet and agreed to wait.
• Wang Yufei visited Wang Baole, learned he had joined Dao-Seeking Academy, and heard he planned to break off his engagement with Wang Yulin.
• After Wang Yufei left, Cao Youqian prompted Wang Baole to admit he had feelings for her, and Wang Baole said he would ask for her hand after ending his engagement.
• Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian told Wang Baole to prepare a birthday gift and leave the rest to them.

At the Wang Clan patriarch’s birthday banquet, Sima Yin arrived and recognized Xiao Chen and the Dao-Seeking Academy’s companions, while Wang Baole confronted Wang Kaixuan. The patriarch’s arrival interrupted the quarrel, leaving Wang Chongyi confused by Sima Yin’s warning and Wang Kaixuan vowing revenge.

• Sima Yin attended the Wang Clan patriarch’s birthday banquet and spotted Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian, sensing Xiao Chen’s powerful Dao protector nearby.
• Wang Kaixuan mocked Wang Baole and Wang Yufei, prompting Wang Baole to warn him to leave.
• Wang Kaixuan challenged Wang Baole to hit him, and Wang Baole slapped him, silencing the Wang Clan disciples with his killing intent.
• Wang Chongyi offered to throw Wang Baole out, but Sima Yin warned him not to mistake a treasure for grass and said he could not afford to provoke the consequences.
• The patriarch’s arrival halted the confrontation, and Wang Baole turned to look at the old man emerging from the rear hall.

At Wang Jinchuan’s birthday banquet, Sima Yin’s lavish gift and the Wang descendants’ offerings drew the guests’ attention. Wang Kaixuan tried to embarrass Wang Baole by revealing his swollen face and challenging him to present his gift, and the chapter ended as Wang Baole opened a box whose brilliant light dazzled the hall.

• Wang Jinchuan welcomed the birthday guests, and Sima Yin presented the Wang Clan with a low-grade spirit artifact, the Five Elements Treasure Tree.
• Wang Hanyan offered Wang Jinchuan a nearly thousand-year-old blood ginseng, and other direct-line descendants presented their gifts.
• Wang Kaixuan presented an authentic painting by Gu Kang, then claimed Wang Baole had slapped him and drew attention to his swollen face.
• Wang Kaixuan challenged Wang Baole to show his birthday gift, prompting the assembled guests and Wang Clan members to watch him.
• Wang Baole opened a box from his storage ring, releasing a burst of spiritual light that dazzled everyone in the hall.

Wang Baole presented the Wang Clan Ancestor with a thousand-year-old Azure Fruit, and Xiao Chen confirmed that Baole had brought it from the Great Void Secret Realm. Baole revealed that he was a Half-Saint's disciple, and Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian offered astonishing gifts before announcing they had another important matter to discuss.

• Wang Baole offered the Wang Clan Ancestor an Azure Fruit, while Wang Kaixuan and Wang Chongyi accused him of stealing it or lying about how he obtained it.
• Xiao Chen arrived and vouched for Wang Baole, saying he had obtained the fruit in the Great Void Secret Realm, while a marquis-level expert's presence stunned the guests.
• Wang Baole told the Wang Clan Ancestor that his master was a Half-Saint, shocking the hall and leaving Wang Chongyi, Wang Yulin, and Madam Wang alarmed.
• Cao Youqian presented the Ancestor with a Life-Force Creation Pill, and Xiao Chen gave him the Wandering Sword King's inheritance.
• Xiao Chen said the gifts were not the only reason he and his junior brothers had come, and that they had an important matter to explain.

Wang Baole dissolved his engagement to Wang Yulin and asked to marry Wang Yufei, securing the Wang Clan’s alliance with him. As he prepared to leave with Wang Yufei and Nangong Yu, the patriarch ordered the relatives who had mistreated him to kneel and apologize.

• Wang Baole announced he was ending his engagement to Wang Yulin, and the patriarch agreed to dissolve the contract.
• Xiao Chen clarified that Wang Baole was not severing ties with the Wang Clan, and Wang Baole asked for Wang Yufei’s hand in marriage.
• The patriarch approved the match, and the Wang Clan celebrated as guests congratulated him on gaining Wang Baole as a son-in-law.
• After the feast, Wang Baole thanked Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian for their help, and they dismissed the value of their gifts as modest.
• After several days, Cao Youqian left for the Cloud Mist Sect, while Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er traveled east and Wang Baole prepared to set out with Wang Yufei and Nangong Yu.
• Before Wang Baole departed, the patriarch ordered Madam Wang, Wang Yulin, Wang Kaixuan, and the others to kneel and apologize or face expulsion from the Wang Clan.

Wang Baole spared the Wang Clan members who had offended him, then Elder Bai brought the wine-loving Nie Xiuyuan to Chu Feng’s Miscellaneous Dao Institute to serve as its brewer. Nie Xiuyuan met Chu Feng and greeted him, beginning his new post.

• Wang Baole spared the kneeling Wang Clan members but warned them not to offend him or Yufei again, then left the clan residence.
• Elder Bai summoned Nie Xiuyuan and offered to take him somewhere he could brew wine freely.
• Elder Bai brought Nie Xiuyuan to the empty Miaomiao Mountain and explained that Chu Feng needed a brewer for the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.
• Elder Bai and Nie Xiuyuan met Qin Qin at Chu Feng’s residence, and she let them inside.
• Elder Bai introduced Nie Xiuyuan as Dao-Seeking Academy’s master brewer, and Nie Xiuyuan greeted Chu Feng.

Chu Feng welcomed Nie Xiuyuan into the Miscellaneous Dao Institute and bonded with him over wine, then learned that Nie Xiuyuan’s Dao heart had been shattered by his treacherous wife and her allies. The chapter left Chu Feng eager to try restoring Nie Xiuyuan’s Dao heart, though he had no plan yet to make him his disciple.

• Chu Feng arranged Nie Xiuyuan’s transfer to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, where the academy head hoped following Chu Feng would help him recover.
• Chu Feng hosted Nie Xiuyuan with a feast and drinks, then said the wines were good but lacked kick and offered to brew stronger wine himself.
• After the gathering, Elder Bing told Chu Feng that Nie Xiuyuan’s wife and enemies had attacked his clan and later shattered his Dao heart in the Great Void Secret Realm.
• Chu Feng became interested in helping Nie Xiuyuan restore his Dao heart, while Elder Bing wondered how he would persuade Nie Xiuyuan to take him as his master.

Chu Feng brewed Burning Blade with Dao resonance, and its effects impressed the Miscellaneous Dao Institute. Nie Xiuyuan became Chu Feng’s disciple, but his realization that his mind was clearest in dreams left Elder Bing wondering how Chu Feng could teach him.

• Chu Feng took Xu Caichen and Nie Xiuyuan to the abandoned winery, cleansed it with a word, and began brewing with spiritual materials.
• Chu Feng infused the brewing process with his intent, prompting Nie Xiuyuan to recognize that he had used the True Essence of the Great Dao.
• After seven days, Chu Feng completed Burning Blade and shared it with the institute, whose members felt its powerful effects after tasting it.
• Nie Xiuyuan asked Chu Feng to accept him as a disciple, and Chu Feng agreed before explaining that brewing required a clear, undistracted mind.
• Nie Xiuyuan drank until he realized his mind was clearest in dreams, then collapsed onto the wine table as Elder Bing questioned whether Chu Feng could teach him.

Chu Feng gave Nie Xiuyuan the Nanhua Scripture to help him comprehend the Dao in his dreams and devoted the evening to demonstrating poetry and swordsmanship for Xu Caichen. His performance left the others with profound insights, and the chapter ended as Chu Feng’s final line fell into silence.

• Chu Feng sent the drunken Nie Xiuyuan and Xu Caichen back to their courtyards with a spell, then wrote the Nanhua Scripture for his new disciple.
• Nie Xiuyuan learned that he should address Xu Caichen as Senior Brother, while Xu Caichen called him Martial Uncle.
• After seven days in seclusion, Chu Feng gave Nie Xiuyuan the Nanhua Scripture and explained that it would help him focus on brewing through dreams.
• Chu Feng took the group to a clearing on Miaomiao Mountain, where Nie Xiuyuan carried the non-flying Xu Caichen through the air.
• At night, Chu Feng drank wine and inscribed lines of poetry on a cliff with his sword, giving Nie Xiuyuan, Xu Caichen, Qin Qin, and Elder Bing insights into their respective paths.
• Chu Feng recited a final line about growing gray over the Scripture of Supreme Mystery, and silence fell around the group.

Chu Feng brewed Dao Enlightenment Wine at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, drawing a heavenly phenomenon and a lightning tribulation. He severed the tribulation with one sword strike, then stored the finished saint wine as a crowd of visitors arrived.

• Xu Caichen asked Chu Feng for mild wine so he could drink while studying, and Chu Feng gave him some.
• Chu Feng asked Qin Qin to gather ingredients for Dao Enlightenment Wine, then began brewing it with Elder Bing's help.
• A hundred days later, a seven-colored glow appeared over Miaomiao Mountain and alerted the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Chu Feng swung his sword at the descending lightning tribulation and dissipated most of it, allowing the still to survive.
• Chu Feng poured the finished saint wine into a top-grade magic artifact as more than a dozen figures landed outside the winery.

Chu Feng shared Dao Enlightenment Wine with the elders and his disciples, whose study of sacred texts led to new insights and rewards for him. Meanwhile, Ye Beixuan found the hidden cave where a Mystic Yellow Fruit grew and prepared to claim it.

• Chu Feng gave the visiting elders cups of Dao Enlightenment Wine, then hosted a tasting banquet for his disciples that night.
• After drinking the wine, Xu Caichen comprehended Saint Kong's propriety, while Nie Xiuyuan reached the beginner level of the Nanhua Scripture; Chu Feng received two system rewards.
• Chu Feng wondered how Ye Beixuan was doing and estimated that he had reached the Dao Foundation Fourth Stage.
• Ye Beixuan searched a cliff south of the Dao-Seeking Academy for a Mystic Yellow Fruit remembered from his previous life.
• Ye Beixuan uncovered a cave, spotted the pale golden Mystic Yellow Fruit inside, and exclaimed that he had found the right place.

Ye Beixuan broke the restriction around the Mystic Yellow Fruit and fled toward Cloud Mist City with the restriction’s mark on him, pursued by Grand Elder Zhan and three cultivators. Cao Youqian intercepted Ye Beixuan on the road and challenged the pursuers, while Grand Elder Zhan realized Cao was baiting him with valuable spiritual medicines.

• Ye Beixuan broke the cave restriction with a Restriction-Breaking Pearl, took the Mystic Yellow Fruit, and headed for Cloud Mist City to remove the mark on him.
• Grand Elder Zhan discovered that the restriction had been broken and set out with A Da, A Er, and A San to reclaim the fruit.
• As Ye Beixuan neared Cloud Mist City, Grand Elder Zhan and his companions caught up, but Cao Youqian pulled Ye onto his white tiger and greeted him as his junior brother.
• Ye Beixuan urged Cao Youqian to flee with him, but Cao dismissed the pursuers as unworthy opponents and confronted Grand Elder Zhan.
• Cao Youqian pretended to show treasures from Ye Beixuan’s storage ring, displaying his own spiritual medicines until Grand Elder Zhan exposed his interest in the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng.
• Grand Elder Zhan realized Cao Youqian had tricked him and shouted angrily at him.

Cao Youqian defeated Grand Elder Zhan and his companions, then entered Cloud Mist City with Ye Beixuan. After revealing that he was from the Dao-Seeking Academy, Cao Youqian asked the city lord to lead them to Song Zhaoyi, then questioned what he had meant by “also.”

• Cao Youqian taunted Grand Elder Zhan and challenged him and his companions to attack together.
• Grand Elder Zhan used the Blood Moon Scimitar’s Moon-Gazing Slash, but Cao Youqian countered with his Extreme Dao Divine Fist and killed all four men.
• Cao Youqian crushed Grand Elder Zhan’s fleeing divine soul and sent Big Cat to collect the group’s valuables.
• Cao Youqian and Ye Beixuan headed to Cloud Mist City, where city lord Song Kui identified himself as Song Zhaoyi’s cousin nephew.
• Cao Youqian told Song Kui he was from the Dao-Seeking Academy and asked him to lead the way to Song Zhaoyi.
• As Song Kui led them into the city, Cao Youqian asked what he had meant by saying he had “also” come looking for Song Zhaoyi.

Cao Youqian arrived at the Cloud Mist Sect with Ye Beixuan and learned that Long Yan was challenging Song Zhaoyi over their broken engagement. Long Yan defeated Song Zhaoyi with help from the presence in his ring, and she tried to take her own life before an unseen speaker intervened.

• The Cloud Mist City lord told Cao Youqian about Long Yan's challenge, and Cao suspected it might be his fortuitous opportunity.
• Cao Youqian, Ye Beixuan, and the city lord reached the Cloud Mist Sect's martial platform, where Long Yan waited for Song Zhaoyi.
• Long Yan and Elder Sword discussed Song Zhaoyi's hidden Nine Yin Saint Physique, while Song Zhaoyi arrived and accepted his challenge.
• Long Yan's Fire Sha Slash forced Song Zhaoyi back, and Elder Sword's power let Long Yan neutralize her Fengyun Convergence.
• Ye Beixuan sensed another presence within Long Yan, and Cao Youqian said he would watch him.
• Song Zhaoyi refused to go with Long Yan and raised her sword to her neck, but a voice called for her to wait and promised to take over.

Cao Youqian interrupted Long Yan’s attempt to marry Song Zhaoyi and challenged him to a duel. After Cao Youqian destroyed the Sword Jade’s hidden Elder Sword, Long Yan and Cao Youqian unleashed their strongest techniques, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Cao Youqian declared that he would take Song Zhaoyi, and she and a Song Clan elder rejected Long Yan’s claim that she was his fiancée.
• Long Yan challenged Cao Youqian to fight, and Cao Youqian told Song Zhaoyi to brew tea while he faced him.
• Long Yan called on Elder Sword, but Cao Youqian used his master’s Sword Jade to destroy Elder Sword’s soul.
• Cao Youqian taunted Long Yan, who unleashed Soaring Dragon Nine Transformations and reached the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Cao Youqian revealed his Divine Physique, and he and Long Yan launched the Extreme Dao Divine Fist and Flood Dragon Emerges from the Abyss at each other.

Cao Youqian defeated Long Yan, gained a map and thunder token leading to Gathering Thunder Valley, and planned to travel there with Song Zhaoyi. After refining the Mystic Yellow Fruit for seven days, Ye Beixuan left the Cloud Mist Sect separately and headed northeast in search of the Nine-Leaf Purple Lotus.

• Cao Youqian killed Long Yan, took his storage ring, and received the fortune that flew from Long Yan's corpse.
• Cao Youqian encouraged Ye Beixuan to refine his spirit herb, and Ye Beixuan swallowed the Mystic Yellow Fruit and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Cao Youqian and Song Zhaoyi found a map to Gathering Thunder Valley and a thunder token in Long Yan's storage ring, then agreed to set out in seven days.
• Cao Youqian attended a Song Clan banquet with Song Zhaoyi and won over her family with his ease in handling the gathering.
• After seven days, Ye Beixuan emerged with a wisp of Mystic Yellow Qi, and he and Cao Youqian parted ways after leaving the Cloud Mist Sect.
• Ye Beixuan disguised himself and headed northeast to seek the Nine-Leaf Purple Lotus, while Cao Youqian and Song Zhaoyi planned to travel west.

Ye Beixuan entered Purple Cloud Valley to obtain the Nine-Leaf Purple Lotus and used the Sword Jade given to him by his master to kill its guardian, the Netherworld Serpent. After collecting the lotus, he was confronted by three Spirit Nurturing yao generals who demanded it, and he prepared to show them the Sword Jade’s power.

• Ye Beixuan reached Purple Cloud Valley, where the Nine-Leaf Purple Lotus grew in Purple Cloud Lake under the protection of a Peak Dao Integration snake yao.
• Ye Beixuan remembered the lotus’s value and spotted the Sword Jade his master had given him.
• Ye Beixuan drew the Netherworld Serpent out of the lake and used the Sword Jade to kill it with one strike.
• Ye Beixuan picked the still-immature Nine-Leaf Purple Lotus, stored the serpent’s corpse, and left the valley.
• A leopard yao, a silver eagle yao, and a human-faced spider yao surrounded Ye Beixuan and demanded the lotus, so he announced that they would witness the might of a Half-Saint.

Ye Beixuan killed two demon generals with his Sword Jade, then fled from Thousand Faces and the Black Devil Bandits after realizing the Sword Qi was nearly spent. When Thousand Faces caught him, a mysterious white-robed swordsman appeared and cut him down.

• Ye Beixuan resisted the human-faced spider's illusion and used the Sword Jade to kill her and the leopard demon, while the silver eagle escaped.
• After dealing with the corpses, Ye Beixuan encountered Thousand Faces, leader of the Black Devil Bandits, who revealed that his body was a puppet and that he had witnessed the Sword Jade's strike.
• Ye Beixuan bluffed with the Sword Jade, then fled deeper into Cloud and Rosy Haze Mountain, but Thousand Faces and his followers pursued him.
• As Thousand Faces caught Ye Beixuan and reached to seize him, a sword strike split the puppet in two.
• A white-robed swordsman appeared before the twelve pursuing bandits and declared that he stood before them.

Xiao Chen rescued Ye Beixuan from the Black Devil Bandits and slaughtered their attackers, while Liu Yue'er revealed that their leader, Thousand Faces, had escaped in a puppet. Xiao Chen had Elder Shan track down and kill the real Thousand Faces as Ye Beixuan prepared to refine a nine-leaf purple lotus.

• Ye Beixuan warned Xiao Chen that the Black Devil Bandits were dangerous, but Xiao Chen challenged the thirteen bandits to attack him.
• Xiao Chen used Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin to kill the bandits and strike down Thousand Faces's puppet as the leader fled.
• Liu Yue'er identified the fallen Thousand Faces as a puppet, and Xiao Chen asked Elder Shan to hunt down the real one.
• Ye Beixuan chose to refine his nine-leaf purple lotus while Xiao Chen stood guard.
• Elder Shan found the real Thousand Faces hiding beneath a river and killed him before he could escape.

Chu Feng received a cultivation reward after Ye Beixuan advanced, while Ye Beixuan gained the God-Slaying Sword Dao from Xiao Chen and decided he needed a beautiful companion to succeed. Back at the Dao-Seeking Academy, Chu Feng defended his leisurely drinking as a way to follow his heart, and Nie Xiuyuan and Xu Caichen cultivated after drinking with him.

• Chu Feng woke to the system's reward for Ye Beixuan's breakthrough and cultivated with the Primordial Chaos purple qi in his dantian.
• Ye Beixuan thanked Xiao Chen for standing guard and asked about the Penglai Sword Debate, and Xiao Chen gave him a jade slip containing the God-Slaying Sword Dao.
• After Xiao Chen left, Ye Beixuan decided that a beauty was standard for the strong and resolved to make a name for himself before Qiong'er joined the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• At Miaomiao Mountain, Elder Bing questioned Chu Feng's relaxed routine, and Chu Feng explained that following his heart helped keep his thoughts unimpeded.
• After drinking with Chu Feng, Nie Xiuyuan and Xu Caichen returned to their courtyards and began cultivating.

Xu Caichen established his Confucian Dao foundation, prompting Chu Feng to wonder when Ye Beixuan would return before the Outer Sect Grand Competition. Ye Beixuan arrived back at the Dao-Seeking Academy and clashed with Ning Keke and Yan Xu, who challenged him to prove himself at the competition.

• Xu Caichen broke through to Confucian Dao Foundation Establishment, and Xiaozhuo celebrated with him as he promised to find a spirit fruit to restore her soul body.
• Chu Feng received news of Xu Caichen's breakthrough and wondered when Ye Beixuan would return for the approaching Outer Sect Grand Competition.
• Ye Beixuan left a dilapidated temple and flew back to the Dao-Seeking Academy after believing he was close to another breakthrough.
• Ning Keke confronted Ye Beixuan with Su Qing and Yan Xu, and he answered her taunts with a warning that she was picking a fight with him.
• Yan Xu pressured Ye Beixuan and challenged him to wait for the Outer Sect Grand Competition, while Ye Beixuan welcomed the challenge before leaving.