Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qianyun set out for Xuanbei Commandery with a True Immortal-grade sword while Lü Qingxuan infiltrated the city and revealed his plan to seize the Golden Immortal’s remains beneath the Luo estate. Yu Tunzhou exposed Lü’s scheme and trapped his Primordial Spirit avatar with the Luo Household’s formation, then attacked him with the Underworld’s Soul-Binding Chain.

• Xiao Runyu gave Zhang Qianyun the Seven Stars Sword and sent him to help the Luo Household, then headed for Xuanbei Commandery herself after suspecting the Alliance of Immortals’ plan.
• Lü Qingxuan entered Xuanbei Commandery through a trick that evaded the city formation and captured Han Wuj iu, ordering him to enter the Inner Heaven and Earth within the remains.
• Lü Qingxuan attacked the Luo estate with Fang Lanshan, and the Chixia Immortal Saber and the Li Household’s talisman formation flew to the remains after Lü awakened their artifact spirits.
• Jiang Wenxuan appeared at the stone chamber entrance and stopped Fang Lanshan’s immortal sword with his bare hand.
• Han Wuj iu revealed Lü Qingxuan’s identity and intentions to Yu Tunzhou, who used the Luo Household’s formation to crush Lü’s Universe in the Sleeve and block his escape.
• Yu Tunzhou sent the Underworld’s Soul-Binding Chain at Lü Qingxuan, who recognized it in horror.

Yu Tunzhou captured Lü Qingxuan and learned that the Alliance of Immortals sought the Human Emperor’s Immortal Heaven, then used a feigned battle to lure Xiao Runyu into Xuanbei Commandery. Yu Tunzhou and Jiang Wenxuan trapped her and broke her desperate attack, leaving her defeated beneath their combined power.

• Yu Tunzhou used the Soul-Binding Chain, Youyin Rogue Person, and the Immortal fire to capture Lü Qingxuan’s Primordial Spirit clone and seize the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire Fan.
• Han Wuj iu revealed Lü Qingxuan’s plan to use the Xiao Household and its Heaven-Monitoring Codex to find the Human Emperor’s surviving bloodline and open the Human Emperor’s Immortal Heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou rejected Lü Qingxuan’s proposal to hand the Immortal’s remains to the Xiao Household and decided to lure Xiao Runyu into Xuanbei Commandery with a staged battle.
• Xiao Runyu entered the city, took the Seven Stars Sword from Zhang Qianyun, and shattered the Immortal Dao Talisman Formation before Yu Tunzhou and Jiang Wenxuan sealed the commandery.
• Xiao Runyu sacrificed the Seven Stars Sword’s power in an attempt to escape, but Yu Tunzhou and Jiang Wenxuan suppressed her strike and left the sword cracked and drained.

Yu Tunzhou and Jiang Wenxuan defeated Xiao Runyu’s forces in the Luo Household, but Xue Wuya’s attack gave Xiao Runyu time to warn her household about a possible plot against the Three Rankings. In the Divine Capital, Xiao Wanghe halted the Xiao Household’s plans and arrested Qingsongzi, suspecting that the imperial family and other factions had deceived them.

• Jiang Wenxuan and Yu Tunzhou subdued Xiao Runyu, who suspected Yu Tunzhou could control the Three Rankings and accused Floating Hill Mountain, the Northern Dark Sea, and the imperial family of conspiring against the Xiao Household.
• Xue Wuya attacked Xuanbei Commandery with a sea of blood, disrupting the Luo Household’s formation and allowing Xiao Runyu to contact the Heaven-Monitoring Codex and warn her household.
• Jiang Wenxuan took the self-burning Xiao Runyu into the void to protect Xuanbei Commandery, while Yu Tunzhou swept the city and arranged the Northern Plains’ response with the Luo Household, Scarlet Cloud Sect, and Zhaoyang Li Household.
• Xiao Yunzhou relayed Xiao Runyu’s warning to Xiao Wanghe, who ordered the Xiao Household to stop encroaching on the Three Rankings and suspected the imperial family had set a trap.
• Xiao Wanghe had Qingsongzi seized over Five Villages Temple’s alleged alliance with Yu Tunzhou and ordered him taken to the grotto-heaven for interrogation.

Yu Tunzhou and Jiang Wenxuan discussed the changing balance of power in the Northern Plains, the worlds beyond the heavens, and the reopened Heavenly Court before Jiang Wenxuan erased Lü Qingxuan’s Primordial Spirit and gained heaven and earth’s favor. As Yu Tunzhou prepared to establish a new order and pursue Martial Dao reform, An Ruyu confronted Xue Wuya and revealed that she had killed her own family.

• Two allies waiting for Mr. Lü learned that the Immortal Alliance had ordered them to withdraw from the Northern Plains and that they could not reach Daoist Master Qingsong.
• Northern Plains faction leaders arrived in Xuanbei Commandery, where Luo Xuanyue revealed that Fang Lanshan and Zhang Qianyun had been captured and Yu Tunzhou would establish a new order without overturning the Lineages’ power.
• Jiang Wenxuan returned from beyond the heavens and told Yu Tunzhou about its grotto-heavens, the Heavenly River, and rumors that Lu Daolin occupied the High Heaven Treasure Hall.
• Jiang Wenxuan destroyed Lü Qingxuan’s Primordial Spirit, received heaven and earth’s favor, and confirmed that the suppression of Dharma Aspect cultivators was easing.
• Yu Tunzhou said he would stabilize the Northern Plains and lay the groundwork for Martial Dao reform, while Jiang Wenxuan warned him that Xue Wuya might still be nearby.
• An Ruyu confronted Xue Wuya at a roadside tea stall, and when he asked who had killed her relatives, she said she had done it herself.

An Ruyu asked Xue Wuya to sever her feelings for Yu Tunzhou, while the Northern Plains’ Aristocratic Clans reacted to Yu Tunzhou’s plan to spread New Martial Arts with resistance and delay. Yu Tunzhou revealed that he intended to settle most of the Northern Dark Sea’s factions in the Northern Plains, leaving Li Yuanming shocked by the scale of the plan.

• An Ruyu told Xue Wuya that Yu Tunzhou was the worldly tie preventing the Mothers from descending, and Xue Wuya agreed to help if she could lure Yu Tunzhou away from Jiang Wenxuan.
• After Yu Tunzhou’s victory in Xuanbei Commandery, the Northern Plains’ houses received the Human Emperor Spark Instruction and Refining the True · Revised, and Guo Feibai urged the Guo Household to obstruct the reforms and exploit the conflict in the Northern Dark Sea.
• Luo Xuanyue warned Luo Yundong that the houses might secretly stall Yu Tunzhou’s reforms, but Luo Yundong said Yu Tunzhou had prepared for resistance.
• Li Yuanming told Yu Tunzhou that the Blood River Dao was recruiting disciples across the Northern Plains and had caused more than ten murders.
• Yu Tunzhou gave Li Yuanming a list of Northern Dark Sea factions and asked him to find land for their relocation, revealing that the list included more than eighty percent of those factions.

Yu Tunzhou told Li Yuanming that he would relocate Northern Dark Sea forces into the Northern Plains, leaving the Aristocratic Clans powerless to resist. After Li Yuanming left, Yu Tunzhou read a letter proposing an alliance against Xue Wuya and recalled Master Lu’s prediction that Great Yan would fall in the third year of Tianshun.

• Yu Tunzhou explained that Northern Dark Sea forces could move to the Northern Plains now that the Demon Race had withdrawn, and Li Yuanming realized the relocation was a real plan rather than a bluff.
• Yu Tunzhou warned that the Northern Plains’ Aristocratic Clans could not obstruct him and said those opposing his Dao and Virtue would be demonic; Li Yuanming agreed and left in a daze.
• Li Yuanming recognized that Yu Tunzhou’s arrival would transform the Northern Plains and ignored the waiting clans’ representatives as he departed the Luo Household.
• Yu Tunzhou caught a letter stating that, one month later, its sender would join Young Hero Guo to kill Xue Wuya, and he wondered whether it was a request to repay a favor.
• Yu Tunzhou recalled Master Lu’s prediction that Great Yan would fall in the third year of Tianshun as the year neared its end.

Yu Tunzhou arranged to meet An Ruyu at the Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven to try to kill Xue Wuya, while the Northern Dark Sea Faction helped him stabilize the Northern Plains. As Yu Tunzhou prepared, Lu Daolin took Martial Fortune from Lu Di, and a sealed ruler emerged in the Divine Capital amid signs of a Human Emperor’s return.

• Yu Tunzhou and Liu Qiandao agreed to rebuild battered clans and sects through New Martial Arts while the Northern Dark Sea Faction helped keep order in the Northern Plains.
• Yu Tunzhou decided to meet An Ruyu at the Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven and bring the immortal’s remains, hoping to kill Xue Wuya despite Jiang Wenxuan’s warning about the danger of facing a Dharma Aspect.
• Jiang Wenxuan said the demon tribes of the Northern Sea were showing signs of withdrawing and offered to keep the Northern Plains under control while Yu Tunzhou cultivated.
• Lu Daolin visited Luofu Grotto-Heaven, gave Lu Di the Martial Fortune he carried, and took a strand of Lu Di’s fortune in return.
• A man sealed in a small world beneath the Divine Capital emerged after four thousand years, and his presence produced the signs of a Human Emperor’s return across the city.

The Peerless Imperial Lord returned and renamed Great Yan Great Yuan, while the Jiang Household and other clans maneuvered around the new order. As Yu Tunzhou prepared to enter the Human Emperor’s grotto-heaven, An Ruyu revealed how she had drawn him there and Xue Wuya questioned her foreknowledge.

• The Peerless Imperial Lord named Emperor Tianshun Lü Jingde, offered Kou Ziling a place as his son, and approved the realm’s renaming to Great Yuan.
• Jiang Wentao became head of the Jiang Household, punished Jiang Hongjin’s branch, and announced the household would take the Anguo Ji Clan’s place among the leading clans.
• Tantai Qingfeng anticipated the imperial family’s approach as officials moved against the Anguo Ji Clan and former Gold-Wielding Guard Commander-in-Chief Feng fled.
• Yu Tunzhou learned that Lü Bairen had once tried to replace the Human Emperor in the Long River of Time, then sensed the Human Emperor’s grotto-heaven reappear and returned to forge his Dharma Domain.
• An Ruyu led Xue Wuya to the grotto-heaven, explaining that Yu Tunzhou would sense its arrival and Jiang Wenxuan was occupied with Jiang Hongjin; Xue Wuya challenged her knowledge of Great Yan’s upheaval.

Yu Tunzhou completed his nascent Dharma Domain, recruited Han Wuj iu for an expedition into the Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven, and used the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic to restore the incomplete Universe in the Sleeve method. The chapter left him in the Five Villages Temple of the past, where he introduced himself as Xuandu and sought an audience with Great Immortal Zhenyuan.

• An Ruyu led Xue Wuya into the Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven, where they found it overrun by the Nine Netherworlds' Yellow Springs and headed toward the Human Emperor's former palace.
• Yu Tunzhou completed his nascent Dharma Domain, built on No-Self and Wuji, while recognizing that he still needed to deepen his understanding of Dominion.
• Yu Tunzhou summoned Han Wuj iu and persuaded him to join the next day's expedition into the Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven by promising a reward and possible outer-disciple status.
• Han Wuj iu gave Yu Tunzhou the incomplete Universe in the Sleeve method, warning that the Five Villages Temple had planted a backdoor in it.
• Yu Tunzhou activated the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic to restore the method and traveled to the past, arriving at the Five Villages Temple and calling on Great Immortal Zhenyuan.

Yu Tunzhou traveled into the past and learned that Laojun had arranged a wedding for him, then returned to the present and recovered the complete Universe in the Sleeve. As Yu Tunzhou set out to confront Xue Wuya, Northern Plains clan leaders secretly agreed to help the Blood River Dao kill him.

• At Five Villages Temple, Qingfeng told Yu Tunzhou that Zhenyuanzi had gone to Tushita Heaven for Xuandu's wedding, which Laojun had arranged and was about to complete with the bridal procession.
• Yu Tunzhou glimpsed the wedding before the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic returned him to the present, where he told Huntian that he had apparently gotten married.
• Yu Tunzhou cultivated the restored Universe in the Sleeve for a day, then gave its complete method to Han Wuj iu and set out with him and Youyin Rogue Person toward the Northern Sea Forest to pursue Xue Wuya.
• A Blood River Dao follower saw Yu Tunzhou heading north and hurried away to prepare the trap, believing An Ruyu had successfully lured him from Jiang Wenxuan.
• At a banquet, Guo Baisheng learned that several Northern Plains clan representatives had allied with the Blood River Dao and planned to provide martial artists' blood after Xue Wuya killed Yu Tunzhou.

Yu Tunzhou entered the Nine Netherworlds-eroded Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven and confronted Xue Wuya, who was widening a rift to the Nine Netherworlds. Yu Tunzhou’s newly formed Dharma Domain let him shatter Xue Wuya’s defenses and destroy his body, but he suspected Xue Wuya’s Primordial Spirit had survived.

• Yu Tunzhou and Han Wuj iu discovered that the Northern Sea Forest’s sinister aura came from the Nine Netherworlds, which were spilling out of the Human Emperor Grotto-Heaven.
• Huntian suggested that the grotto-heaven’s renewed erosion might mean someone had altered the past and weakened the Human Emperor’s contingency.
• Yu Tunzhou sensed Xue Wuya beside several rifts in the Human Emperor’s palace and ordered Han Wuj iu and Youyin to wait for an opening.
• Xue Wuya used An Ruyu’s formation and his Essence Blood to widen a rift, then sent a Blood River Incarnation to confront Yu Tunzhou.
• Yu Tunzhou attacked Xue Wuya with two incarnations and the Vajra Bracelet, using his three-zhang Dharma Domain to suppress the Blood Sea and smash Xue Wuya’s body twice.
• Yu Tunzhou shouted for Youyin after Xue Wuya’s head exploded, suspecting that his Primordial Spirit remained.

Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu joined forces to defeat Xue Wuya, who escaped into the Nine Netherworlds with half his Primordial Spirit. Afterward, An Ruyu claimed that Yu Tunzhou still owed her a debt of gratitude and asked him to help kill Emperor Tianshun.

• Yu Tunzhou severely wounded Xue Wuya, while Youyin Rogue Person used the Soul-Binding Chain to threaten his blood bead.
• Xue Wuya sacrificed his heart to turn the formation into a killing formation, but An Ruyu seized control of it and turned it against him.
• Yu Tunzhou, Han Wuj iu, and Youyin Rogue Person attacked Xue Wuya, destroying his blood bead and capturing half of his Primordial Spirit as the rest escaped into the Nine Netherworlds.
• Han Wuj iu warned that the rift could not be cut off and that the grotto-heaven would need to be sealed deep in the void.
• An Ruyu argued that Yu Tunzhou still owed her for her help in the Heavenly Court and asked him to help kill Emperor Tianshun.

An Ruyu explained that the Human Emperor had entered a severed primordial past and might be in danger, while she revealed the Incense-Smelling Cult’s plans against Emperor Tianshun and the Peerless Imperial Lord. Yu Tunzhou arranged to banish the corrupted grotto-heaven and leave Huntian’s avatar to watch for a hidden gate to the past, then prepared to return to the Northern Plains.

• An Ruyu told Yu Tunzhou that the Human Emperor had gone alone into the separated past and had never returned, and that the Incense-Smelling Cult tested the power he had left behind.
• An Ruyu said killing Emperor Tianshun would undermine the Peerless Imperial Lord and restore Great Yan’s Human Dao Fortune, while warning Yu Tunzhou that the Blood River Dao was courting Northern Plains clans.
• Huntian proposed that the grotto-heaven might hide a gate to primordial times and offered to leave an avatar there after devouring Xue Wuya’s damaged Primordial Spirit; Yu Tunzhou agreed.
• An Ruyu told Yu Tunzhou that the Human Emperor’s descendants had blended into ordinary Northern Plains families and that there might still be a way to enter his Immortal Heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou watched An Ruyu wander through the palace and test its well and murals, then realized she had been teasing him before he waited for Huntian’s preparations to finish.

Guo Baisheng backed the Blood River Dao’s plans to seize the Northern Plains, while An Ruyu claimed the Dao Lord had captured Yu Tunzhou and entered the Nine Netherworlds. As the Guo Household’s forced collection of people for blood was exposed, Liu Qiandao reflected on Yu Tunzhou’s vision of making martial arts available to everyone.

• Guo Baisheng agreed to provide the Blood River Dao with more people for blood and told Guo Shouren that he was waiting for confirmation of Yu Tunzhou’s death before fully committing.
• An Ruyu told Liang Shuoye that the Dao Lord had entered the Nine Netherworlds, that Yu Tunzhou had been ambushed, and that the Blood River True Pool could summon the Blood Spirit Venerable Mother’s incarnation.
• An Ruyu went to the Blood River True Pool and ordered the prisoners and other captives removed so she could contact the Blood Spirit Venerable Mother without interruption.
• Guo Feibai pressured Magistrate Zhang to seize more people for the Blood River Dao, but Northern Dark Sea agents arrested them both and took them to Xuanbei Commandery.
• Liu Qiandao saw an impoverished family in Shilin County and considered whether Yu Tunzhou’s plan to let everyone practice martial arts could change the lives of common people.

Liu Qiandao arrested members of the seven great Northern Plains households, and Yu Tunzhou returned to expose the Blood River Dao’s defeat and take control of the confrontation. The invited sect experts did not intervene as the household patriarchs were dragged away, while Yu Tunzhou prepared to demonstrate two martial arts he had created.

• Liu Qiandao ordered everyone involved in the Guo Household’s crimes executed and had money taken from the county office distributed to poor families.
• Guo Baisheng learned that Feibai had been captured and summoned the other households and major sects to seek mediation.
• The seven household patriarchs gathered at the Luo Household with invited Buddhist and Daoist experts, expecting Yu Tunzhou to be dead or defeated.
• Liu Qiandao questioned the patriarchs’ claims, then Yu Tunzhou entered carrying Liang Shuoye and revealed that Xue Wuya had lost his body and fled to the Nine Netherworlds.
• Yu Tunzhou had Liu Qiandao’s subordinates remove the seven patriarchs while the sect experts stayed silent, then offered to demonstrate two martial arts he had created.

Yu Tunzhou demonstrated the Agricultural God Stance and Threading the Needle, explaining that the Daode Lineage wanted martial arts to improve ordinary people's lives and challenge entrenched social divisions. The Grandmasters agreed to remain in the Northern Plains and support the reforms, while Monk Wuji warned that the Great Yuan Dynasty planned to appoint a family to govern the region.

• Yu Tunzhou demonstrated the Agricultural God Stance, a farming-inspired exercise that drew earth Qi and could enrich the soil.
• Yu Tunzhou demonstrated Threading the Needle, a precise hand technique useful for combat skills as well as sewing and weaving.
• Yu Tunzhou urged the Grandmasters to help develop martial arts for ordinary people and said the Daode Lineage intended to share its methods and change ideas about social rank.
• Daoist Qinghuang, Daoist Xuanlan, and the other Grandmasters agreed to stay in the Northern Plains and support its martial arts reforms, while Monk Wuji chose to report the situation to his temple.
• Monk Wuji asked Yu Tunzhou about the Great Yuan Dynasty and revealed that it would send envoys to choose a family to govern the Northern Plains on the imperial family's behalf.

Fan Shuo recruited Zhang Xiuzhu and the Alliance of Immortals to help Great Yuan take control of the Northern Plains, while Zhang Xiuzhu secretly planned to earn a place in the future Divine Court. In Xuanbei Commandery, Feng Xu and An Ruyu separately drew Yu Tunzhou into a coming struggle over the Human Emperor’s Three Rankings.

• Fan Shuo met Zhang Xiuzhu at Heaven’s Edge Valley and offered the Alliance of Immortals a fief in the Northern Plains, Human Dao Fortune, and access to Great Yuan’s inheritances in exchange for joining the Imperial Lord.
• Zhang Xiuzhu agreed to take over the Northern Plains and told a woman that he hoped to earn Divine Dao positions on the Human Emperor’s Investiture of the Gods by serving the Imperial Lord.
• Yu Tunzhou welcomed Feng Xu, who explained that a suppressed Dao Lord had emerged in the Divine Capital and asked Yu Tunzhou to help contest the Human Emperor’s Three Rankings in two months.
• Feng Xu warned that the Xiao Household might seize the Three Rankings, which could counter its Heaven-Monitoring Codex, then left to recruit others.
• An Ruyu sent Yu Tunzhou a secret letter naming the Star Palace as the meeting place for the same contest, along with a plan to seize the Three Rankings, kill Tianshun, and destroy the Xiao Household.

Yu Tunzhou completed the prototype of his Dharma Domain by letting its principles find their own order, then prepared to leave for the Star Palace while advancing his plans to strengthen the Northern Plains. At the Star Palace, Mo Shougui and Daoist Purple Mountain faced a Dao Lord’s seemingly inevitable attack, with the Star Palace’s warning about remaining variables offering a sliver of uncertainty.

• Yu Tunzhou realized that his Dharma Domain’s Dominion layer should neither join nor replace the heavenly order, and established a self-consistent domain in which principles found their own order.
• Yu Tunzhou emerged from three months of seclusion and sensed that his ultimate art might be connected to the refinement of his Dharma Domain.
• Yu Tunzhou told Liu Qiandao he would soon leave for the Star Palace, and Liu reported progress teaching the Northern Plains people to draw on the earth’s Qi and reclaim farmland.
• Yu Tunzhou told Liu Qiandao to prepare to spread his martial arts among the people so talented commoners could choose among competing households and sects.
• At the Star Palace, Daoist Purple Mountain urged Mo Shougui to take the Human Ranking and flee, but Mo said a Dao Lord’s Destined Convergence into One made escape pointless.
• Daoist Purple Mountain reminded Mo Shougui that the Star Palace’s teachings warned that variables remained even when the Mandate of Heaven seemed fixed.

Yu Tunzhou rejected Little Thunderclap Temple’s attempt to draw him into Northern Plains politics, while news of An Ruyu’s strange summoning and the coming Great Yuan envoy deepened the conflict around him. A month later, the Kang Household saw how Yu Tunzhou’s martial reforms could empower ordinary farmers, and its head refused to meet Great Yuan’s envoy for fear of provoking Yu.

• Li Jingxuan warned Yu Tunzhou that Little Thunderclap Temple was interfering in Vajra Chan Temple’s dispute and had targeted him, so Yu forced Monk Wuji to leave.
• Yu Tunzhou’s orders led to the seven clans being sentenced to relocate their main households to the Northern Dark Sea, while Liu Qiandao destroyed the Blood River Dao’s stronghold and rescued prisoners.
• Han Wuj iu found spatial and Nine Netherworld traces at the empty Blood River True Pool, and Yu Tunzhou suspected An Ruyu had summoned the Blood Spirit Venerable Mother.
• Li Jingxuan told Yu Tunzhou that Daoist and Buddhist institutions planned to support Ji Yaoyang against Great Yuan, but Yu chose to remain in the Northern Plains and continue his reforms.
• Kang Pingyue demonstrated that the Agricultural God Stance could greatly increase yields, and Kang Pingshan realized Yu Tunzhou’s reforms could loosen the Aristocratic Clans’ control over the common people.
• When a Great Yuan envoy arrived in Changping, Kang Pingshan refused to receive him, fearing that meeting him would bring the Kang Household’s relocation to the Northern Dark Sea.

Mo Shougui fled the Star Palace with the Human Ranking as the Xiao Household and Great Yuan’s allies moved against him, while True Person Xuanyang faced Yellow Springs Daoist’s threats. As Mo Shougui’s escape became part of a wider conflict between Great Yuan and the Daoist and Buddhist factions, Zhao Jiangxue confronted Dan Yinghu and An Ruyu declared that the war had begun in earnest.

• Daoist Purple Mountain sent Mo Shougui through a secret passage with the Human Ranking, then collapsed the passage behind him.
• Yellow Springs Daoist confronted True Person Xuanyang, revealed his interest in Feng Xu’s inheritance, and warned Xuanyang that the Star Palace’s destruction was in the fated future.
• Yellow Springs Daoist told Xuanli that the force behind Great Yuan had blocked the Star Palace from seeing the workings of heaven.
• Mo Shougui headed north but was intercepted by Shen Jie, whom Zhao Jiangxue drove back before directing Mo Shougui south toward the Nanhua Sect.
• Dan Yinghu tried to persuade Mo Shougui to surrender the Human Ranking, while Zhao Jiangxue confronted him and protected Mo Shougui’s escape with his sword force.
• An Ruyu watched the conflict begin and said the Daoist and Buddhist sides had gone to war in earnest with the ruling dynasty.