Recaps

Zhou Ning became a first-tier Alchemist by refining mid-grade Spirit Essence Pills, then attended Steward Su and Jiang Xi’s lavish wedding on Bamboo Creek Island. Jiang Xi regretted her lost chance to pursue pill refining and noticed Zhou Ning’s Pill Furnace, leaving her thoughts on what might have been.

• Zhou Ning refined four mid-grade Spirit Essence Pills and decided to attempt Ginseng-Nurturing Pills only after he could make five pills in one batch.
• Old Jia’s granddaughter Jia Tingwan settled on Bamboo Creek Island after the Beast-Taming Han Household asked about Zhou Ning, while Jiang Xi prepared to marry Steward Su.
• Zhou Ning, Old Jia, and Xu Qinghou went to Steward Su’s wedding and saw Su Junsong preside over the ceremony.
• The Su Household presented Jiang Xi with a flying Law Artifact, a Storage Bag, and a Three Flowers Pill as her bride price.
• Jiang Xi reflected that her debts had been paid and she had received the treasures she once wanted, then glanced at Su Junsong and noticed Zhou Ning’s Pill Furnace.

Zhou Ning reached the Second Layer of Qi Refining and asked Steward Su for leave to travel to Yongyang Commandery with Xu Qinghou and meet old friends from the Azure Mystic Sect. Steward Su approved, while Jiang Xi learned he would buy her a Pill Furnace instead of letting her use Zhou Ning’s.

• Zhou Ning broke through to the Second Layer of Qi Refining and decided to seek leave for the trip to Yongyang Commandery, despite uncertainty over whether his old friends’ appointment still stood.
• Zhou Ning declined to attend Yuan Dahu’s banquet and worried that the Su Household’s conflict with the Duan Household might eventually reach Bamboo Creek Island.
• Zhou Ning visited Steward Su and requested three months’ leave to travel with Xu Qinghou and meet friends from the Azure Mystic Sect.
• Steward Su approved Zhou Ning’s leave after Zhou Ning tactfully answered his complaint about Yuan Dahu’s bony spirit fish.
• Steward Su warned Jiang Xi not to get involved with Zhou Ning’s temporarily lent Pill Furnace and promised to buy her a new one.

Zhou Ning persuaded Su Youyou to set up a Bewildering Tracks Array around his courtyard, hiding his activities from probing cultivators. Su Youyou hinted that the Su Household needed Alchemists, then left before explaining further.

• Su Youyou arrived at Zhou Ning’s courtyard with two multicolored pheasants and asked him to cook them for her.
• Zhou Ning cooked the pheasants, then asked Su Youyou to rent him an Illusion Array in exchange for spirit rice and help dealing with intruders.
• Su Youyou agreed and quickly set up a first-tier Bewildering Tracks Array around the courtyard.
• Su Youyou gave Zhou Ning a warning flag that would light if someone forced their way into the array.
• Su Youyou mentioned that the Su Household was short of Alchemists and began to ask whether Zhou Ning could refine Spirit Essence Pills, but flew away before finishing.

Zhou Ning continued concealing his growing alchemy ability while benefiting from Su Youyou’s array, and prepared to travel to Yongyang Commandery for the meeting with Gu Xiangning. As he and Xu Qinghou set out, Jia Tingwan met Zhou Ning and mistook him for an unremarkable spendthrift.

• Old Jia discovered that Zhou Ning’s courtyard was protected by a Bewildering Tracks Array, and Zhou Ning admitted Fairy Su had rented it to him for fifty jin of spirit rice.
• Zhou Ning refined five excellent Spirit Essence Pills and decided to attend the meeting in Yongyang Commandery before revealing his alchemy skills the following year.
• Xu Qinghou, now at the Qi Refining Middle Stage, prepared to travel with Zhou Ning on green leaf flying Law Artifacts.
• Old Jia tried to teach Xu Qinghou how to recognize helpful friends, but Jia Tingwan answered that a pillow could give someone a hundred Spirit Stones, angering her grandfather.
• Jia Tingwan saw Zhou Ning and judged him handsome but poorly cultivated, unintelligent, and wasteful before Xu Qinghou announced their departure.

Zhou Ning and Xu Qinghou reunited with Gu Xiangning in Yongyang, where she delivered Jiang Xiaohua’s request to end their ties and offered Zhou Ning cultivation advice and a valuable Vermilion Fruit. Gu Xiangning left with Ye Menglong after proposing that they meet again in seven years, leaving Zhou Ning unsure why she treated him so generously.

• Zhou Ning and Xu Qinghou met Gu Xiangning in Yongyang, where Xu Qinghou learned she had reached the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Gu Xiangning gave Zhou Ning a Three Flowers Pill from Jiang Xiaohua, who asked him to stop using her name, and Zhou Ning rejected the gift and ended their connection.
• Gu Xiangning advised Zhou Ning and Xu Qinghou on cultivation and gave Zhou Ning books about pill refinement.
• Gu Xiangning proposed that the three meet again in seven years, then departed with Ye Menglong.
• Zhou Ning recognized Gu Xiangning’s gift as a hundred-year-old Vermilion Fruit, and Xu Qinghou joked that Zhou Ning’s looks explained her generosity.

After returning to Bamboo Creek Island, Zhou Ning spent a year cultivating and practicing pill refining while the Su Household changed the fish hunters’ compensation. Once he reached the Third Layer of Qi Refinement, he went to Luyou Island and revealed three pills for sale, leaving the market stunned.

• Xu Qinghou and Zhou Ning returned to Bamboo Creek Island after avoiding a battle between cultivators, and Xu Qinghou gave Zhou Ning talismans to support his pill refining.
• Zhou Ning resolved to spend one more year trying to refine a Stasis-Clearing Pill and planned to reach the Third Layer of Qi Refinement before showing his progress.
• Steward Su doubled the fish hunters’ guaranteed compensation, while Zhou Ning questioned the Su Household’s motives and wondered whether Fuluo Eel scales could be used to refine artifacts.
• A year later, Zhou Ning reached the Third Layer of Qi Refinement and successfully refined three Ginseng-Nurturing Pills.
• Zhou Ning carried his Pill Furnace to Luyou Island and placed three pinkish pills on a plate, shocking the merchants at the market.

Su Junsong investigated Zhou Ning after hearing that a former retainer had become an Alchemist, and Zhou Ning proved his skill by refining Stasis-Clearing Pills in the market. When the Su Household offered him a poorly paid guest-elder position, Zhou Ning revealed his connection to Gu Xiangning and True Person Yaoxian.

• Su Wen complained that her Spirit Gathering Formation had been tampered with, then a messenger told Su Junsong that Zhou Ning had become an Alchemist.
• Su Junsong and Su Wen went to the market, where Zhou Ning demonstrated his ability by refining three Stasis-Clearing Pills before a crowd.
• Su Junsong invited Zhou Ning to the residence and learned that his Qi-Benefiting Pill success rate had reached twenty-five percent.
• Su Wen offered Zhou Ning a position as the Su Household's Alchemist guest elder, with one Spirit Stone a year and a free Pill Furnace.
• Zhou Ning revealed an Azure Mystic Sect letter and said his friend Gu Xiangning had become True Person Yaoxian's disciple.

Zhou Ning used his connections and alchemy skills to secure a favorable contract as a Su Household guest elder. He returned to Bamboo Creek Island with the household’s backing and won deference from Steward Su, while quietly remembering past grievances.

• Zhou Ning showed Su Junsong tokens from Gu Xiangning and the Ye Household, then negotiated a spiritual contract that hired him as a Su Household Alchemist with a guaranteed stipend and provisions.
• Su Junsong investigated Zhou Ning’s background, confirmed his path to alchemy, and arranged for him to return to Bamboo Creek Island under the household’s protection.
• Su Junsong and Su Wen escorted Zhou Ning to Bamboo Creek Island aboard a Foundation Establishment Azure Feather Eagle.
• Su Wen confronted Su Changhe and announced that Zhou Ning was now a first-tier Alchemist of the Su Household who would reside on the island.
• Su Changhe, alarmed by Zhou Ning’s new status, gave him two Spirit Stones and offered exaggerated congratulations, while Zhou Ning accepted and recalled the steward’s earlier mistreatment.

Zhou Ning returned to Bamboo Creek Island as an Alchemist and was formally named a Su Household guest elder. He began refining pills for the household, while Xu Qinghou and Old Jia struggled to adjust to his sudden rise.

• Jiang Xi persuaded Su Changhe to fund her attempt to become an Alchemist after Zhou Ning's success, and he agreed.
• Su Junsong and Su Wen escorted Zhou Ning back to Bamboo Creek Island and assured him that an array master would protect his home.
• Su Household shadow guards hung a plaque naming Zhou Ning an Alchemist and guest elder, shocking the island's retainers.
• Zhou Ning thanked Xu Qinghou with a Spirit Stone and invited Su Junsong and Su Wen into his home.
• Su Junsong supplied Zhou Ning with medicinal herbs and said the household would collect the pills in a month.
• Old Jia encouraged Xu Qinghou not to feel diminished by Zhou Ning's success, then privately lamented that Zhou Ning had really become an Alchemist.

Zhou Ning profited from pill refining, advanced to the Qi Refining Middle Stage, and prepared for another journey to the Land of Wei. As news arrived that the Su Household had suffered a rout after the Guo Household defected to the Lei Household, he wondered whether the Su Household was close to collapse.

• Zhou Ning refined Qi-Benefiting Pills at a seventy percent success rate and resolved to reach the Qi Refining Middle Stage before returning to the Land of Wei.
• Su Youyou installed a Four Symbols Spirit-Locking Array at Zhou Ning's home and warned him that Cuiwei Lake had become dangerous.
• Su Wen confronted Steward Su after Zhou Ning implied Jiang Xi's interference was hurting his pill-refining work, prompting Steward Su to urge Jiang Xi to keep refining.
• Zhou Ning gathered more True Yang Metal Qi, fully charged his jade stone nearly to completion, and used a Primordial Origin Pill to break through to the Qi Refining Middle Stage.
• Zhou Ning sold pills to Li Ji and Yuan Dahu, who warned him that the Guo Household had defected to the Lei Household and Su Household cultivators had been routed.

Zhou Ning heard news of the Su Household’s losses, considered the two Secret Methods in his cultivation scripture, and decided to practice the Jade-Casting True Gold Talisman. The chapter ended as Su Wen arrived, giving him a chance to ask for a better Pill Furnace and second-tier jade.

• Yuan Dahu told Zhou Ning that the Su Household had lost several Late Qi Refining fighters in an ambush by the Lei Household, but Yuanye had arrived in time to bring them back.
• Zhou Ning reflected that selling Clear Eyes Powder cheaply earned him useful goodwill and promised Old Jia that Jia Tingwan could watch him refine pills in about a month.
• Zhou Ning inspected his damaged Pill Furnace and decided to ask Su Wen for a higher-grade replacement.
• Zhou Ning studied the Xinsi Golden Scripture’s two Secret Methods and rejected Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils because it required risking his eye.
• Zhou Ning chose to pursue the Jade-Casting True Gold Talisman, which required second-tier jade, and noticed Su Wen arriving.

Zhou Ning asked Su Wen for a new Pill Furnace and second-tier spirit jade, then met two rogue cultivators who came to Bamboo Creek Island. After hearing that a fish hunter had found a flower resembling a Foundation Establishment Pill ingredient, Zhou Ning went to investigate a commotion on the island.

• Su Wen visited Zhou Ning, praised his work for the Su Household, and agreed to bring him a new Pill Furnace and second-tier spirit jade.
• Zhou Ning gave Su Wen two Spirit Stones for the purchases, and she left Bamboo Creek Island.
• Two Qi Refining Ninth Layer rogue cultivators arrived, and Su Wen warned them not to cause trouble before departing.
• Old Jia introduced the two men to Zhou Ning, who sold them pills at a discount.
• Zhou Ning recalled Scholar Xu's account of a fish hunter finding a silvery purple flower that might be a Purple Monkey Flower, then flew toward a crowd on the island to investigate.
• Old Jia warned the two rogue cultivators not to target Zhou Ning because the Su Household would retaliate and Zhou Ning likely had life-saving protection.

Zhou Ning went to Steward Su’s residence while worrying that the Su Household might be hiding a higher-tier Spirit Vein. On Luyou Island, Su Wen confronted Lin Qing over the Pill Furnace he had kept from the Lineage, and forced him to yield by revealing an Azure Nether Guard.

• Zhou Ning reasoned that the Purple Monkey Flower might indicate a hidden higher-tier Spirit Vein at Cuiwei Lake, then arrived at Steward Su’s residence as someone rebuked cultivators who rejected the Su Household’s conditions.
• Su Wen demanded that Lin Qing return the Lineage’s Pill Furnace, and Lin Qing used grief over his deceased wives to resist giving it up.
• Su Wen accused Lin Qing of taking the inheritances of Madam Yin and Alchemist Zhang, and Pharmacist Lan overheard the accusations before leaving.
• Lin Qing summoned his two puppets and challenged Su Wen, but Su Wen brought out an Azure Nether Guard from the Azure Mystic Sect.
• Su Wen activated the Azure Nether Guard, and Lin Qing offered to hand over the Pill Furnace.

Su Wen forced Lin Qing to surrender Madam Yin’s second-tier treasures, while Lin Qing secretly sent information about the Su Household to the Han Household. At Bamboo Creek Island, Zhou Ning recognized that Steward Su had arranged an enemy attack and tried to warn the gathered retainers, but Steward Su moved to hold him in place.

• Su Wen took Lin Qing’s Pill Furnace, second-tier talisman brush, and second-tier spirit jade after intimidating him with the Azure Nether Guard.
• Lin Qing sent a message by Black-Scaled Rat, reporting details about the Su Household and Zhou Ning’s alchemy to an unknown recipient.
• Steward Su raised the retainers’ fishing quota and offered them a new job as enemy cultivators approached Bamboo Creek Island.
• Zhou Ning realized Steward Su was using the approaching Guo Household cultivators to eliminate witnesses and warned the retainers to flee.
• Steward Su expanded a dark iron ring Law Artifact around Zhou Ning and ordered the retainers to help capture him.

Zhou Ning fought off Steward Su and escaped into Old Jia’s courtyard with Jia Tingwan as Guo Changying attacked the retainers at Cuiwei Lake. Guo Changying confronted Zhou Ning outside the protected courtyard and prepared a Restriction-Breaking Talisman.

• Zhou Ning used talismans to force Steward Su to defend himself, while Yuan Dahu recognized Guo Changying and fled into the lake.
• Guo Changying ordered her forces to leave no survivors and swept the retainers away with a massive blade-like wave of water.
• Zhou Ning rescued Jia Tingwan, drove off pursuing Guo Household cultivators with a Chaotic Wind Blade Dance Talisman, and escaped Guo Changying’s charge when a willow’s branches interrupted her attack.
• Zhou Ning and Jia Tingwan entered Old Jia’s courtyard and activated its formation, keeping Guo Changying outside as she challenged him.
• Old Jia warned Zhou Ning that Guo Changying was a formidable fighter with a top-grade Canglang Spear, and Guo Changying revealed a Restriction-Breaking Talisman.

Guo Changying spared Zhou Ning and the others because she needed her Restriction-Breaking Talismans to seize red iron bamboo, while Zhou Ning later attacked the Guo Household siege and plundered their Storage Bags. He escaped back behind the courtyard array as Guo Changying arrived, and she withdrew her cultivators rather than waste time trying to break through.

• Guo Changying chose not to use a Restriction-Breaking Talisman on the courtyard array after a Guo Household man warned her that the red iron bamboo was the priority, and she left with a threat.
• Zhou Ning confirmed that Guo Changying had gone toward the back mountain, then flew out to attack the Guo Household cultivators besieging Steward Su’s residence.
• Zhou Ning used repeated Great Water Dragon Talismans to overwhelm the attackers, causing a Flame Explosion Talisman to erupt among them and killing several cultivators.
• Zhou Ning collected several Storage Bags and fled when Guo Changying approached, narrowly reaching the courtyard before her spear light struck the array.
• Guo Changying attacked the array in anger, then ordered the Guo Household cultivators to retreat.

Zhou Ning divided the spoils from the Guo Household’s surprise attack, then reported the incident to Su Yuanye and received the items Su Wen had brought him. Su Yuanye ordered Steward Su to leave Zhou Ning alone, while Zhou Ning planned to strengthen the island’s defenses and seek an opportunity in the Land of Wei.

• Zhou Ning inspected the Guo Household’s Storage Bags, claimed a superior-grade shield and other loot, and gave talismans to Old Jia, Xu Qinghou, and Jia Tingwan.
• Su Wen and Su Yuanye arrived, and Zhou Ning recounted how he had ambushed and killed the attackers.
• Su Wen gave Zhou Ning a cloud-patterned Pill Furnace and second-tier spiritual jade before following Su Yuanye away.
• Zhou Ning resolved to strengthen Bamboo Creek Island’s defenses and enter the Land of Wei to seek a fortuitous opportunity.
• Steward Su accused Zhou Ning of interfering and revealed his suspicions about Zhou Ning’s abilities, but Su Yuanye ordered him not to meddle and put Su Wen in charge of Zhou Ning.

Su Yuanye dismissed concerns about Zhou Ning while Lin Qing learned of the attack on Bamboo Creek Island, and Guo Changying encountered a mysterious Daoist Mu. After preparing for another journey to the Land of Wei, Zhou Ning activated the black jade stone and set off.

• Su Yuanye told Su Wen that Zhou Ning posed no threat to the Su Household and asked her to report Su Changhe's strangeness to Junsong.
• Lin Qing received news that Bamboo Creek Island had been attacked and its Red Iron Bamboo seized, and he noted Zhou Ning's role in the fighting.
• Guo Changying reflected on the Guo Household's precarious position and its plans for the Azure Ruins Secret Realm before confronting Daoist Mu, who asked for Red Iron Bamboo.
• Zhou Ning finished charging the jade stone, reinforced his preparations, and planned to seek pill formulas, supplies, and information about Su Changhe in the Land of Wei.
• Zhou Ning overheard Old Jia urging Jia Tingwan to practice alchemy, withdrew his Divine Sense, and entered the pitch-black jade stone.

Zhou Ning returned to Gazing Immortal Port, where True Person Lu mistook him for the reincarnated Ji Wumian and failed to search his soul. The chapter ended with Zhou Ning claiming he had come to the world to go on a killing spree, convincing True Person Lu that he had found the person he was waiting for.

• Zhou Ning returned to Gazing Immortal Port and found it bustling with cultivators again.
• Zhou Ning went to the market square, where True Person Lu isolated him from the crowd and called him Ji Wumian.
• True Person Lu tried to search Zhou Ning's soul, but the attempt failed and injured his cultivation.
• Zhou Ning returned to his false body and asked why True Person Lu had called him Ji Wumian.
• Zhou Ning told True Person Lu that his name was Zhou Ning and that he had come to the world to go on a killing spree.
• True Person Lu decided Zhou Ning was Ji Wumian and declared that he had found the one he was waiting for.

True Person Lu found Zhou Ning and recruited him to retrieve the Earth Marrow Withered Wood Heart from the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven, while giving him a protective Divine Ability. Lu was blocked from reaching Gazing Immortal Port, where Ji Wumian reincarnated as a baby and realized he could not restore his cultivation.

• True Person Lu found Zhou Ning at Gazing Immortal Port, recognized his Yang Metal Qi, and asked him to cooperate in retrieving the Earth Marrow Withered Wood Heart.
• True Person Lu gave Zhou Ning the cultivation experience for Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils and protected him with the Divine Ability Immovable Mountain.
• True Person Lu sent Zhou Ning toward the withered tree in the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven and promised to exchange an item for the Earth Marrow Withered Wood Heart.
• True Person Lu set out for Gazing Immortal Port but was stopped by True Person Huajing, who invoked Li Fire True Lord's decree.
• Ji Wumian awoke as a newborn in Gazing Immortal Port, remembered his past and his plan to revive the Bright Radiance Immortal Sect, then lost consciousness when he could only wail like an infant.

Zhou Ning entered the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven and encountered He Zhuoran, an old acquaintance who had survived in the form of black smoke. They traded cultivation knowledge and pills, then He Zhuoran led Zhou Ning toward Calamity-Severing Grass.

• Zhou Ning entered the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven through a black hole in a dead tree and narrowly escaped an exploding, poisonous Fire Furuncle Fruit.
• Zhou Ning recognized He Zhuoran, whose Vast Righteous Qi Instruction had transformed him into black smoke, and the two exchanged surprised greetings.
• He Zhuoran asked Zhou Ning for Void Wind Qi-Unifying Instruction cultivation experience, while Zhou Ning requested a Sea-Filling Pill or Calamity-Severing Grass and a stronger Qi Refining pill.
• Zhou Ning traded his Foundation Establishment experience for He Zhuoran's Greater Ginseng-Nurturing Pill Formula, and both men agreed to the exchange.
• He Zhuoran harvested the Fire Furuncle Fruits and gave fifteen to Zhou Ning, then used a cyan compass to lead him toward Calamity-Severing Grass.

Zhou Ning and He Zhuoran encountered Little Sister Li gathering Rotten Soil Earth Breath Qi over a dangerous marsh. After Zhou Ning claimed a flying boat from her, he exposed a hidden Ni Marsh Python by tossing it a spirit fish, leaving both companions startled by his discovery.

• Zhou Ning traveled with He Zhuoran, whose black-smoke appearance made other cultivators mistake him for a Devil Cultivator.
• He Zhuoran led Zhou Ning around a marsh that burned away Divine Sense, where Little Sister Li was gathering Rotten Soil Earth Breath Qi.
• Little Sister Li revealed that He Zhuoran's flying boat had cost her the jade lotus platform her mother had planned to commission, explaining why she had grown distant from him.
• Zhou Ning falsely claimed the flying boat had been meant for him, and Little Sister Li returned it to him.
• Zhou Ning suspected something was hidden in the marsh and threw in a spirit fish, revealing a Ni Marsh Python that startled He Zhuoran and Little Sister Li.

Zhou Ning, He Zhuoran, and Little Sister Li hunted Ni Marsh Pythons and traded the spoils for Jade Graceful Branch blossoms and a secret net technique. As Zhou Ning and He Zhuoran traveled toward the Calamity-Severing Grass, Zhou Ning realized that powerful figures might be invisible to others and wondered whether his jade hid him from the world's influence.

• Zhou Ning and He Zhuoran baited Ni Marsh Pythons with Fire Furuncle Fruit and killed them with explosions, while Little Sister Li used a spiritual net to retrieve and skin the beasts.
• After they hunted five pythons, Zhou Ning received two Jade Graceful Branch blossoms and a jade slip containing the Profound Water Spirit-Binding Net technique in exchange for his share of the hides.
• Little Sister Li left to seek Shen Huaizhen of Divine Craft Peak and ask him to craft an artifact.
• Zhou Ning asked He Zhuoran about two figures he had seen near the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven, but He Zhuoran did not know whom he meant.
• Zhou Ning recalled the madness and slaughter in Gazing Immortal Port and suspected his jade had hidden him from the world's influence and powerful cultivators.

Zhou Ning disguised himself and He Zhuoran as a Buddhist holy man and his golden light to approach the cultivators at Dead Wood Ridge. He was welcomed as a Buddha’s son and blessed Wu Daoqi, who believed the blessing could reverse his bad luck.

• He Zhuoran told Zhou Ning that cultivators were gathering at Dead Wood Ridge to enter a True Person’s cave abode, and Zhou Ning persuaded him to conceal his Devil Cultivator appearance.
• Zhou Ning dressed in a Buddhist robe and fashioned a monk’s staff and alms bowl, while He Zhuoran concealed Zhou Ning’s cultivation realm.
• At Dead Wood Ridge, Shi Shuiyue challenged Boming after he mocked her, but a man breaking the formation ordered everyone to wait until they entered the ridge before fighting.
• Zhou Ning arrived with He Zhuoran shining as golden Buddha light and introduced himself as a holy man from Little Western Heaven, earning respectful greetings from the gathered cultivators.
• Wu Daoqi offered Zhou Ning a Spirit Stone and asked for a blessing, and Zhou Ning let He Zhuoran’s light touch him while promising that he would turn danger into good fortune.

Zhou Ning posed as a Buddha son and collected Spirit Stones before joining He Zhuoran in a fight against the monk Boming, until Li Chonglou intervened with an embryonic spirit treasure. Li Chonglou then broke the formation guarding Dead Wood Ridge, and the cultivators rushed inside, unaware that he expected the Purple Mansion cultivators to claim the best treasures later.

• Shi Shuiyue paid Zhou Ning for a blessing, and other cultivators followed, allowing him to collect twenty or thirty Spirit Stones.
• Boming challenged Zhou Ning, who claimed to be a Vajra Arhat Buddha son and attacked with a Flame Explosion Talisman while He Zhuoran’s golden light injured Boming.
• Li Chonglou used his Two Modes Primal Union Disc to slow Zhou Ning and Boming, then identified himself as a member of the Firmament Treasure Sect.
• He Zhuoran explained why Qi Refining cultivators could enter the Withered Wood Grotto-Heaven while stronger cultivators could not, and Zhou Ning understood why True Person Lu had chosen him.
• Li Chonglou broke the formation at the cave entrance, and a hundred cultivators hurried toward Dead Wood Ridge as he expected the Purple Mansion cultivators to take the best treasures.