Recaps

After Zhang Xuezhou entered the Consciousness Creation Realm, his Poison Avoidance Art grew stronger and helped purge the toxins from the Spirit-Forging Pill liquid. He and Zhang Manqian then worked out a numerical method for teaching the complicated art so cultivators could better tolerate their medicine.

• Zhang Xuezhou broke through to the Consciousness Creation Realm, and his Law Power strengthened his Poison Avoidance Art enough to remove the pill liquid’s toxins.
• Zhang Manqian questioned Zhang Xuezhou about advancing by taking medicine, and he explained the Spirit-Forging Pill liquid’s bitterness, poisoning, and hallucinations.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided cultivators should learn the Poison Avoidance Art to reduce the medicine’s harmful effects and discussed how X446 repair devices could help them master its stages.
• Zhang Manqian suggested replacing unfamiliar acupoint names with numbers, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed that this would simplify cross-world instruction.
• Zhang Xuezhou drew 108,000 numbered acupoints and their connections on two large anatomical diagrams, while Zhang Manqian found the charts overwhelming.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that cultivators did not need to perfect the art, since partial mastery would help them suffer less poisoning when taking medicine.

Zhang Xuezhou used the Supreme Purity True Technique to restore Wang Haoran’s right hand and offered to heal his remaining injuries. After Wang Haoran revealed how many others suffered similar lingering damage, Zhang considered turning the treatment into a wider service and wondered how to make it acceptable in modern society.

• Wang Haoran arrived at the North Rehe Research Institute, and Zhang Xuezhou said he believed he could treat his severed tendons and meridians.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Wang Haoran to exert force with his right hand, then used the Supreme Purity True Technique to tear and rapidly heal its damaged tendons.
• Wang Haoran regained near-normal strength in his right hand and manipulated Martial Cry with dexterity.
• Zhang Xuezhou agreed to treat Wang Haoran’s other hand and feet that day, and Wang told him many people had similar injuries that modern medicine had not fully repaired.
• Zhang Xuezhou proposed putting up a sign and having Wang spread the word, then considered using the Tuer God and religion as a guise for offering treatment legally.

Zhang Xuezhou opened a clinic for treating lingering injuries and agreed with Wang Haoran to explore Qinmeng together. Wang Haoran warned Zhang about the importance of protecting his medical abilities and suggested he contact Zhou Xin, whose injuries might be worse than people knew.

• Zhang Xuezhou put up a sign advertising the Tuer God’s treatment for injuries from falls and blows.
• Wang Haoran offered to join Zhang Xuezhou’s group as a protector on a future Qinmeng expedition, and Zhang welcomed his help.
• Wang Haoran explained that Zhang’s medical abilities could make him valuable to powerful Lineages, but urged him to build enough strength to protect himself and his methods.
• Zhang said he understood and explained that invoking the Tuer Clan’s name could help him avoid pressure to share his abilities.
• Wang Haoran advised Zhang to contact Committee Member Zhou, revealing that Zhou Xin might have deep injuries from his fight with Mengtesi Badun despite never showing his pain.

Zhang Xuezhou asked Wang Li to learn mechanical repair for their future expeditions to the Qinmeng Ruins and discussed the financial and political obstacles to expanding Flying Entertainment Livestream. Their conversation showed Wang Haoran how the platform could become a powerful public-opinion outlet and help the Zhang Household establish itself in Western Capital City.

• Zhang Xuezhou asked Wang Li to learn mechanical repair and assembly so he could support the team in the Qinmeng Ruins, and Wang Li agreed.
• Wang Li told Zhang Xuezhou that Flying Entertainment Livestream was stable but expanding into television shows and films would require costly broadcasting rights.
• Wang Li explained that the Sequence Committee might enable the platform to expand if a government publicity department put it to use, though going public could cost them control.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided not to rush into expansion and told Wang Li that they would need support from Sequence Committee members before pursuing agreements.
• After the call, Zhang Xuezhou told Wang Haoran that Wang Li was worth cultivating, and Wang Haoran saw the livestreaming platform as a way for the Zhang Household to establish itself in Western Capital City.

Wang Haoran warned Zhang Xuezhou that pursuing online livestreaming as an administrative channel would require powerful backing, then watched Zhang demonstrate a stone that could fly out and return. Zhang explained that combining realm cultivation with gene weapons could give Wang Haoran a path toward Sixth Sequence strength.

• Wang Haoran warned Zhang Xuezhou that powerful interests might try to seize his livestreaming venture and advised him to gain Sixth Sequence strength or secure Sixth Sequence supporters.
• Wang Haoran lamented that his Dark Spider gene and declining physical abilities made advancement difficult, then showed Zhang his control of Martial Cry.
• Zhang Xuezhou tossed an engraved stone that flew far away and returned to his hand, astonishing Wang Haoran.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that the stone's effect came from combining a Realm Technique with Tuer Clan religious inscriptions.
• Zhang Xuezhou proposed that Wang Haoran could combine cultivation, a Law Treasure, and his gene weapon to build strength toward the Sixth Sequence.

Zhang Xuezhou shared the Realm Technique and Poison Avoidance Art with Wang Haoran, giving him a way to reduce the side effects of Zhang Xuezhou’s pills. Wang Haoran and his allies gained another path to strengthen themselves, though Zhang Xuezhou warned them to keep the Gene Fighting Technique as their priority.

• Wang Haoran asked Zhang Xuezhou what advancing the Realm Technique would allow him to do, and Zhang Xuezhou explained that its branches depended on the techniques cultivated.
• Zhang Xuezhou gave Wang Haoran a copy of the Poison Avoidance Art and explained that it could reduce the toxicity of his pills.
• Wang Haoran agreed to pass copies of the art to Song Bu'er and Qin Wenhan, and Zhang Xuezhou said he had already prepared copies for them.
• Zhang Xuezhou cautioned Wang Haoran to treat the Realm Technique and techniques as support rather than replacements for genetic abilities.
• Wang Haoran said the new path gave them a better chance of advancing, and he was seventy percent confident he could reach the Sixth Sequence.

Wang Haoran recovered enough to leave hopeful about the Supreme Purity True Technique, while Zhang Xuezhou warned that treating Zhou Xin would not guarantee an alliance with the Zhou Household. Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian discussed the Body Transformation and Divine Ability Realms before he resumed cultivating and began switching worlds.

• Wang Haoran left Zhang Xuezhou's care radiant with joy and suggested using the Supreme Purity True Technique to build an alliance with the Zhou Household.
• Zhang Xuezhou cautioned Zhang Manqian that treatment might not cure Zhou Xin or secure a lasting alliance, so he chose to wait for an opportunity.
• Zhang Xuezhou cultivated in the Consciousness Creation Realm and estimated that he might reach the Body Transformation Realm in two to three years.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained to Zhang Manqian how the Body Transformation Realm and Divine Ability Realm worked and how techniques could evolve into Divine Abilities.
• Zhang Xuezhou continued advancing his cultivation until he began switching worlds.

Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding crossed the Heavenly Gates with Yao Yuanguang and arrived at Supreme One Palace, where Yao reported that Zhang had consumed Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood. The chapter ended with Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds intrigued by Zhang's knowledge of blood transfusions.

• Yao Yuanguang carried the blindfolded Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding through the Southern Heavenly Gate, where Rong nearly suffocated during the crossing.
• Yao Yuanguang drove them onward and helped Rong breathe with dark ice during another Heavenly Gate crossing.
• Yao Yuanguang brought them to the Daoist palace among eighteen floating mountains, and Rong mistook its name, Supreme One Palace, for Supreme Two Palace.
• Yao Yuanguang told Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds that Zhang had consumed Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood and asked him to spare Zhang's life.
• Zhang Xuezhou offered a blood transfusion to save Rong if blood extraction endangered him, and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds asked how Zhang knew about transfusions.

Zhang Xuezhou met Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds and discussed blood transfusions, earning a personal invitation into the Supreme One Palace. After drinking Dao tea that clarified his cultivation insights, he began discussing a technique for borrowing Demon Power and learned that this world had advanced biotechnology resembling genetic engineering.

• Zhang Xuezhou explained blood cells and transfusion rejection to Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds, who welcomed him into the Supreme One Palace.
• Yao Yuanguang waited outside and wondered how Zhang Xuezhou had gained such medical knowledge.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds showed Zhang Xuezhou a painting demon formed from a wisp of his master's primordial soul.
• Zhang Xuezhou drank Dao tea, which sharpened his understanding of the fifth chapter of the Mental Strengthening Chapter.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds asked Zhang Xuezhou about a technique for borrowing Demon Power, and their discussion revealed biotechnology resembling genetic engineering.

Zhang Xuezhou and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds discussed methods of separating the body and soul and compared cases they had witnessed. Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds revealed that he wanted Rong Tianding’s Ancestral Dragon’s Essence Blood to strengthen his troublesome senior brother, and promised not to kill Rong Tianding.

• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds described his master’s theory that a soul could be separated from its body and implanted into another vessel, and Zhang Xuezhou agreed that perfect separation was possible.
• Zhang Xuezhou recounted how a cultivator had escaped a dying Yang Corporeal Soul by inhabiting Spirit Jade and forming a small body with Spiritual Qi.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds explained that his senior brother had separated his soul by slitting his throat and received a replacement body made from spirit-silk jade lotus root.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds said his senior brother had a child’s intelligence, caused trouble, and remained vulnerable to attacks beyond soul-targeting Incantation Techniques.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds revealed that he intended to use Rong Tianding’s Ancestral Dragon’s Essence Blood to graft Technique Method Annihilation Armor into his senior brother.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds assured Zhang Xuezhou that he would preserve Rong Tianding’s life while drawing and replenishing his blood.

Zhang Xuezhou accompanied Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds to a laboratory, where the Taoist planned to extract Rong Tianding's Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood. Zhang Xuezhou learned that Golden Rosy Clouds would use Taotie Essence Blood to distinguish and collect it, and Rong Tianding was left to undergo the procedure.

• Zhang Xuezhou followed Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds into his laboratory, where Rong Tianding was bound in a water vat among preserved body parts.
• Zhang Xuezhou calmed Rong Tianding by explaining that Golden Rosy Clouds had promised not to kill him, and they discussed the remains of Golden Rosy Clouds' late master.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds showed Zhang Xuezhou a long blood-probing needle and a Life-Creating Fortune Pill to draw and replenish Rong Tianding's blood.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds explained that he planned to use Taotie Essence Blood to separate the Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood, and said the main likely side effect was that Rong Tianding might enjoy eating.
• After Golden Rosy Clouds reassured Zhang Xuezhou about the risks, Zhang Xuezhou urged Rong Tianding to stay calm and cooperate with the experiment.

In Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds' laboratory, Zhang Xuezhou watched him draw and replace the Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood in Rong Tianding with Taotie blood, learning more about the blood's dangers and history. As the procedure continued, Golden Rosy Clouds summoned Giant Spirit, whose arrival interrupted his explanation of a rare transformation.

• Rong Tianding endured Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds' needle as he drew out blood and injected Taotie Essence Blood to counter the Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked about the apertures shared by humans, Taotie, and the Ancestral Dragon, and Golden Rosy Clouds explained how the Ancestral Dragon's body had been studied.
• Golden Rosy Clouds explained the Ancestral Dragon's death and his superior strength compared with Zhu Jiuyin, helping Zhang Xuezhou understand the value and danger of Rong Tianding's Essence Blood.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked what the Essence Blood could do to a woman, and Golden Rosy Clouds described possible death, transformation into a man, or a rare effect on a fetus.
• Golden Rosy Clouds summoned Giant Spirit, but a giant carrying a youthful boy arrived; the boy slid down and darted into the laboratory.

Nezha’s blind groping threw the Supreme One Palace’s Eight Trigrams Bewildering Formation into chaos, leaving Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds trapped in an illusion while Rong Tianding’s bloodletting experiment continued. Zhang Xuezhou briefly resisted the bewilderment, tried to keep Rong Tianding alive, and called out just as Nezha was about to poke him.

• Nezha’s actions disrupted the Eight Trigrams Bewildering Formation, trapping Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds in an illusion and leaving him unable to control the formation.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds worried that Rong Tianding’s wounds would heal or his body would burst before the Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood could be extracted.
• After touching the Eye of the Ba Snake, Zhang Xuezhou briefly regained his senses and saw the others behaving strangely amid the illusions.
• Zhang Xuezhou used a long needle to keep Rong Tianding’s blood flowing, then searched for a way to release him from the mechanism.
• Nezha arrived, found everyone acting mad, and prepared to poke Rong Tianding before Zhang Xuezhou urgently called out to stop him.

Zhang Xuezhou and Nezha tried to deal with the purple-light hallucinations in the Supreme One Palace, but Nezha threw Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds out of the laboratory before the confusion cleared. As the formation grew more dangerous, Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds urged Nezha to restore the Azure Dragon Pillar.

• Zhang Xuezhou told Nezha that the purple light seemed to be causing hallucinations, but Nezha could not identify the problem or sense a formation.
• Zhang Xuezhou persuaded Nezha to move Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds out of the formation, and Nezha hurled him through the gate toward the Heavenly Gate.
• Nezha realized he might have been hallucinating too and rushed out, while Zhang Xuezhou’s attempt to control the formation with the Acupoint-Fixing Technique triggered a backlash.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Incantation Avoidance Formula to resist the dizziness and heard Nezha speaking with the injured Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds felt his token grow dangerously hot and urged Nezha to put the Azure Dragon Pillar back in place before the formation exploded.

The Supreme One Palace’s formation collapsed, releasing a surge of Spiritual Qi that benefited the people and creatures across the Eastern Heavenly Gate secret realm. Zhang Xuezhou learned from the painting demon that the body hidden inside him could not be removed without killing him, leaving him with few hopes of restoring his body to normal.

• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds mourned the destruction of the Supreme One Palace’s formation while Nezha and others absorbed the released Spiritual Qi.
• Yao Yuanguang recognized that Zhang Xuezhou’s Acupoint-Fixing Technique had helped bring about the formation’s collapse and eagerly cultivated in the Spiritual Qi.
• An immortal escaped from an ancient painting, regained a fuller form by absorbing Spiritual Qi, and set off to search for a body he remembered.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Rong Tianding recovered as the Spiritual Qi eased their suffering, and Zhang Xuezhou made progress cultivating both his body and Yang Corporeal Soul Dharma Form.
• The painting demon told Zhang Xuezhou that the body formed from his three souls and seven spirits could not be removed safely unless his cultivation surpassed that of the person who created it.
• After lamenting the shriveled remains, the painting demon plunged into the urn holding Rong Tianding’s blood.

The painting demon absorbed the Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood taken from Rong Tianding, leaving him alive but afflicted with endless hunger. Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds returned to the ruined Supreme One Palace and found the demon transformed, while the group faced the loss of their formation, elixir, and plans for Nezha.

• The painting demon coated his body with Rong Tianding's Essence Blood and stopped draining him when dark blood appeared.
• Rong Tianding regained consciousness, realized he had survived, and learned that Taotie's demon blood would make him constantly hungry.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds returned to the Supreme One Palace and discovered that the painting demon had consumed the Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood.
• Nezha grabbed and flung the painting demon, but Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds persuaded him to let the demon go.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds thanked Zhang Xuezhou for helping him escape the formation, and Zhang Xuezhou claimed he had only just come to his senses.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds surveyed the damage: the formation and Spirit Jade were ruined, the Life-Creating Fortune Pill was lost, and the plan involving Nezha had failed.

Rong Tianding reflected on the hunger and strength brought by his Taotie Demon Power while Zhang Xuezhou was pressured to help Yao Yuanguang perform a fortune reading for Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds. Zhang Xuezhou demanded control over Yao Yuanguang’s life as security, and Yao Yuanguang accepted the dangerous bargain as the chapter left them preparing to proceed.

• Rong Tianding discussed his growing height and appetite with Giant Spirit, then worried that Zhang Xuezhou was unhappy inside the Supreme One Palace.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds offered Yao Yuanguang another Life-Extending Golden Elixir to read his fortune, and Yao Yuanguang said his accuracy was limited unless Zhang Xuezhou joined him.
• Zhang Xuezhou refused to help and accused Yao Yuanguang of wanting to use him to bear the technique’s cost; Yao Yuanguang secretly revealed that fortune reading could shorten a physiognomist’s lifespan.
• Zhang Xuezhou demanded a direct way to kill Yao Yuanguang as leverage, and Yao Yuanguang agreed after Zhang challenged him to gamble.
• Yao Yuanguang told Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds that Zhang Xuezhou needed his life in hand before they could perform the technique safely, while Nezha offered to punish him if he failed.
• Zhang Xuezhou rejected Nezha’s offer and insisted that only leverage held by his cousin could make him trust Yao Yuanguang.

Zhang Xuezhou forced Yao Yuanguang to accept the risks of the Physiognomy Technique, and Nezha provided a Fire Spirit Pearl to protect Yao Yuanguang from being controlled. Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds chose Nezha as the subject of the reading, leaving Yao Yuanguang and Zhang Xuezhou preparing for a dangerous attempt.

• Zhang Xuezhou wagered his life against Yao Yuanguang's scheme, and Yao Yuanguang agreed to his terms.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds asked Nezha to provide the Fire Spirit Pearl so Yao Yuanguang could swallow it as protection.
• Nezha turned flames from his Fire-Tipped Spear into a pearl and rushed to give it to Rong Tianding's Eastern cousin.
• Yao Yuanguang swallowed the pearl, then explained that he and Zhang Xuezhou would have only one chance to use the Physiognomy Technique.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds chose Nezha rather than himself as the subject, and offered Yao Yuanguang two golden pills as a guaranteed reward if the reading failed.

Yao Yuanguang and Zhang Xuezhou used the Person-Reading Technique to probe Nezha’s future, despite the danger of reading someone with much higher cultivation. Their casting turned ominous when a tortoiseshell Law Artifact shattered, signaling that the pair had encountered deadly danger.

• Yao Yuanguang prepared a ritual altar and nine tortoiseshell Law Artifacts before asking Nezha to sit among them.
• Yao Yuanguang warned Zhang Xuezhou that peering into the future could consume his lifespan if he failed to break free of the Technique’s pull.
• Yao Yuanguang and Zhang Xuezhou performed the Person-Fixing Technique on Nezha, who sat still after Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds reminded him.
• Rong Tianding stood ready to attack Yao Yuanguang with the Fire Spirit Pearl, but Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds reassured him and gave him roasted venison.
• A lotus appeared above Nezha as Zhang Xuezhou and Yao Yuanguang trembled, and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds hoped the divination would reveal how to protect Nezha.
• A tortoiseshell Law Artifact flipped over and shattered, and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds recognized it as an omen that Zhang Xuezhou and Yao Yuanguang faced deadly danger.

Zhang Xuezhou and Yao Yuanguang used a reversed Person-Fixing Technique to search Nezha’s future through fragments in the long river of time. They found a future in which Nezha had died, and no later fragments of him appeared.

• Zhang Xuezhou viewed Nezha’s memories, learning how Nezha’s role in the Immortal Court changed after the Human Emperor’s court fell and the Zhou Dynasty collapsed.
• Yao Yuanguang reversed the Person-Fixing Technique and used Zhang Xuezhou to peer into the future, warning him to guard his mind.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw fragments of his own and Yao Yuanguang’s possible futures, then continued searching through the points of light.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Yao Yuanguang found a future fragment showing Nezha dead, with his Fire-Tipped Spear fallen and his treasures shattered.
• Zhang Xuezhou searched further ahead and found fragments of himself but none of Nezha.

Yao Yuanguang foresaw Nezha's death but was trapped in the long river of time when a transcendent sage attacked. A mysterious chant freed him, and he woke to find Rong Tianding demanding answers while Nezha remained unconscious.

• Yao Yuanguang saw that Nezha would face a death tribulation in just over twenty years, but could not determine how Nezha would die.
• A powerful presence roared at Yao Yuanguang for stealing its power of time and space, and repeated assaults began shattering his Ten-Thousand-Year Turtle Law Artifacts.
• Unable to wake Zhang Xuezhou and withdraw the technique, Yao Yuanguang feared his soul would be erased and struggled to escape.
• After the ninth turtle shell broke, a mechanical chant loosened Yao Yuanguang's bond with Zhang Xuezhou, allowing him to return to reality.
• Rong Tianding struck Yao Yuanguang and demanded to know why his cousin had not awakened, while Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds restrained him and held the unconscious Nezha.

Yao Yuanguang’s divination left him and Zhang Xuezhou incapacitated and convinced Nezha that he faced death, while Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds demanded an explanation. Yao Yuanguang lost his memories of what he saw and asked for time to interpret the divination before accepting the life-extending golden pill.

• After the divination’s backlash, Yao Yuanguang vomited and struggled to explain that Nezha was in danger of dying.
• Rong Tianding blamed Yao Yuanguang for killing Nezha and demanded that Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds let him burn the diviner, but Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds froze him.
• Nezha woke and revealed that the protective green lotus had broken; he said he was likely going to die and recalled hearing the Saint rebuke the divination as deviant practices and evil ways.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds tried to dismiss physiognomy as trickery, then offered Yao Yuanguang a golden pill and an immortal opportunity in exchange for a clear explanation.
• Yao Yuanguang could not remember what he had seen in the long river of time, so he asked Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds for time to interpret the divination before taking the pill.

Yao Yuanguang explained that his vision showed Nezha facing a deadly tribulation and losing a Wind Fire Wheel, while Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds feared they had brought the danger upon him by using the Physiognomy Technique. Yao Yuanguang survived after revealing that Nezha’s tribulation would come in a little over twenty years and that he might be needed then.

• Yao Yuanguang asked which cultivators could kill Nezha and take his Wind Fire Wheels, and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds named several powerful figures.
• Nezha recalled that just under one and a half ke passed between the vision beginning and a sage rebuking them, though their memories were fading.
• Yao Yuanguang said a transcendent sage with abilities over space and time might have been angered by their intrusion, and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds realized he might have exposed Nezha to danger.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds freed Rong Tianding, who began reciting Nezha’s incantation, but Nezha revealed that Yao Yuanguang had swallowed only a baked mud pellet.
• Yao Yuanguang pleaded for his life, claiming he had glimpsed an Eastern cultivator who should still be alive and that Nezha would face a deadly tribulation in a little over twenty years.

Yao Yuanguang discovered that Zhang Xuezhou’s body remained intact while his souls had been drawn into the Physiognomy Technique, and he began trying to locate them. When Yao Yuanguang opened the Confucian Law Treasure’s bamboo slips, the character “benevolence” rang out and calmed those harboring murderous intent, even reaching Zhang Xuezhou’s distant soul.

• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds examined Zhang Xuezhou and concluded that his three souls and seven spirits had been drawn into the Physiognomy Technique, leaving a chance for him to recover if they returned.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds ordered Yao Yuanguang to track Zhang Xuezhou’s souls, and Yao Yuanguang reluctantly began using the Star-Fixing Technique.
• Yao Yuanguang opened Yuan Gu’s Confucian Law Treasure and spoke the ancient character for “benevolence,” which swept away his hostile thoughts.
• The Law Treasure’s reverberation calmed Rong Tianding and Nezha, and Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds found that it also affected his disciple Jin Ding.
• Primordial Lord Golden Rosy Clouds realized the Law Treasure affected people most strongly when they harbored urges to kill, and its influence reached Zhang Xuezhou’s divine soul.

Zhang Xuezhou was overwhelmed by fragments of future time after losing his bond with Yao Yuanguang, and the Venerable One and the Saint intervened to save him. The Saint stopped the danger, while the Venerable One turned his lethal curse toward Zhang Xuezhou; the chapter ended with the Saint tracing the power of benevolence to its deceased owner.

• Zhang Xuezhou struggled to escape the river of time as fragments of the future battered his Divine Sense and threatened to make his soul collapse.
• The Venerable One used the Great Wilderness Creation Scripture to reach Zhang Xuezhou, but the river of time and an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon’s chant also ensnared him.
• The Venerable One appealed to the Saint, who made the river of time vanish and halted the crisis.
• The Venerable One tried to kill Zhang Xuezhou with a lethal curse, but the Saint explained how Zhang Xuezhou had been swept into the river and then let the curse proceed.
• A voice saying “Benevolence” extinguished the Venerable One’s killing intent, and the Saint traced the power to its deceased owner.